Posted by dwight in Blog on 08. Feb, 2010 | Comments
I saw on CNN today that Rahm Emanuel put down Democrats who oppose Obama’s health plan by calling them “f******* retarded”. This caused quite a bit of outcry from all sorts of people including the head of the Special Olympics and Mr. Emanuel signed a pledge to stop using the “r-word” as a derogatory [...]
I know I missed the big day, but I was just thinking of MLK and love.
Especially in the context of Matthew 5:39: “But I tell you, Do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.”I would not be surprised to learn that there were [...]
I didn’t want to flood my twitter stream with all of these:
1. I’m surprised at the low price. I was expecting entry level to be around $800 at the lowest. I’m guessing they are selling these without as much margin as most Apple products, they probably can make it back on AppStore sales.
2. $30 a [...]
1 Justin McRoberts 572
2 Nickel Creek 478
3 Lifehouse 412
4 Switchfoot 311
5 Harnoncourt 261
6 Collective Soul 260
7 Derek Webb 241
8 Shaun Groves 176
9 Coldplay 175
10 Frank Sinatra 164
11 House of Heroes 147
12 Shane Barnard 139
13 Blood, Sweat & Tears 137
14 Ahn Trio 134
14 Thomas Knoll 134
1 Justin McRoberts – Until There Is No Tomorrow 83
2 Norah Jones – Come Away With Me 67
3 Ramones – I Wanna Be Sedated 55
4 Lifehouse – Everything 54
4 Metallica – Nothing Else Matters 54
6 Tom Petty – I Won’t Back Down 53
6 Third Day – When the Rain Comes 53
6 Ramones – Blitzkrieg Bop 53
9 Us3 – Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia) 51
9 Nickelback – Savin’ Me 51
9 [...]
I currently have two iPhoto Libraries, one on my laptop with 4,000 photos and one on my external HD with 13,300 photos. I’m tired of switching back and forth and not knowing which of my photos are in which library. I keep thinking Apple will add multiple volume support to iPhoto, but I guess they [...]
These were all from around San Francisco. Hopefully, planning to do one of these each month or so will help me get motivated to get out there and take more pics.
Perhaps this is just a limitation of my hermeneutic (i.e. living within time), but it is easy to forget that life isn’t tomorrow or the future, it is what is happening to me and what I am doing right now.
When I forget this, it is easy to do things for the wrong reason. An example [...]
Probably not going to top the scented candle sales charts, but the aroma of burning dust is a little bit nostalgic for me.
Growing up, we didn’t run our heater very often. Some years, despite it being very cold in the house, we would only run it when guests were over, usually around Thanksgiving and Christmas. [...]
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Be they atheistic materialists or hard-line calvinists, I have no issue disagreeing with determinists that determinism is the truth because, if they are right, I’m simply disagreeing with them because of a long ineluctable chain of causality.
One of my top posts is Acorn vs. Pixelmator. Well, I finally made a decision and purchased Acorn.
There are a few issues I have with it, but overall it does 9 out of 10 things I need to do, and most projects I set out to do have fewer than 10 steps, so no problem [...]
Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.
(KJV)
It is clear to me that this (omnipresence/omniscience) is the first thing I deny when I sin.
God basically tells Jeremiah: “Put on some underwear, now go bury that underwear by a river.” Then after many days he tells Jeremiah: “Go dig up that dirty rotting underwear… look at it!”
Many times I have refused to do what God wants me to do because it seems ludicrous to me. The tension remains, however, [...]
“Sheol and Abaddon lie open before the LORD;
how much more the hearts of the children of man!”
“Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”
Let there be known among the nations in our sight,
Vengeance for the blood of Your servants which has been shed.”
How often do people pray to the Lord a prayer like this one? “Do not let it be known that You Lord did not protect your servants.”
It seems [...]
Posted by dwight in Links on 09. Feb, 2010 | Comments
For Scots, a Scourge Unleashed by a Bottle
Why is prohibition always the first idea to answer excess?
(tags: article culture scotland alcohol editorial nytimes sarahlyall)
Why So Few Conservative And Libertarian Professors?
(tags: article editorial history education danielbklein)
NBA aims to crush union in labor battle
(tags: article sports basketball nba editorial economics yahoo adrianwojnarowski)
Core curriculum for civic literacy
(tags: article [...]
Posted by dwight in Links on 08. Feb, 2010 | Comments
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Could be cool, but can't say I'm a huge fan of all of the results. i.e. I could see this abused.
(tags: video technology photography design)
Posted by dwight in Links on 07. Feb, 2010 | Comments
Time Travel Made Easy
(tags: article humor editorial philosophynow joelmarks)
Exposing the invisible: Nick Veasey
(tags: video ted xray photography)
For photographers and graphic artists, not a pretty picture out there – latimes.com
Whiny editorial on how internet culture is making it hard for photographers to charge as much as they used to.
(tags: article editorial art economics free internet technology [...]
Posted by dwight in Links on 06. Feb, 2010 | Comments
EMI Posts $2.4 Billion Net Loss
(tags: article economics music nytimes)
The 27 Articles of T.E. Lawrence
(tags: article telawrence history source culture military middleeast)
Dangerous Compassion
(tags: article ecclesiology koinonia williamdmounce)
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences
(tags: article mathematics physics philosophy dartmouth eugenewigner idontpretendtounderstandallthis)
Avatar and its Conservative Critics
(tags: article thepublicdiscourse matthewjmilliner review film cslewis avatar politics)
Become a [...]
Posted by dwight in Links on 05. Feb, 2010 | Comments
The Evolution of Divorce
(tags: article editorial history sexuality marriage culture divorce law family nationalaffairs wbradfordwilcox)
JooJoo maker: iPad won't crowd us out of tablet space
(tags: article editorial technology arstechnica paulmah)
Sex-Ed Ambiguities
(tags: article sexuality education editorial politics cityjournal kayshymowitz)
Reality Breakdown: Raises on Lowered Budgets?
(tags: article blog howto economics job)
Redeeming a Dirty Word
'In most of evangelicalism, the old [...]
Posted by dwight in Links on 04. Feb, 2010 | Comments
The Grasping Hand by Peter Sloterdijk
'Today, the state’s grasping hand even reaches into the pockets of generations unborn. We have already written the title of the next chapter of our history: “The pillage of the future by the present.”'
(tags: petersloterdijk article editorial history economics politics europe)
Why Tebow and not gay dating ad? CBS on Super [...]
Posted by dwight in Links on 03. Feb, 2010 | Comments
Many Successful Gay Marriages Share an Open Secret
(tags: article nytimes scottjames sexuality marriage culture)
ONE YEAR GONE: President George W. Bush Answered the Calling of Our Time
(tags: article blog editorial history bighollywood adambaldwin politics video)
The 10 Best Apps to Improve Your iPhone Photos
(tags: article howto apple iphone photography technology list)
Latin America: After the Left
(tags: article actoninstitute [...]
Posted by dwight in Links on 02. Feb, 2010 | Comments
Obama Labor Board Nominee, "workers should not be able to choose against having a union"
(tags: blog article politics editorial labor townhall)
Flash, iPad, Standards
(tags: article apple future technology ipad flash adobe zeldman html5 jefferyzeldman)
The Name of Jesus—Phil 2:10
I'm reading the 1611 edition of the KJV, and I'm pretty good at reading (if I don't say so [...]
Posted by dwight in Links on 01. Feb, 2010 | Comments
Fundamentalists and the Atheists Who Love Them
(tags: article editorial nytimes athesism christianity rossdouthat)
stevenf.com – I need to talk to you about computers. I’ve been…
(tags: article blog stevenfrank technology history future)
Posted by dwight in Links on 31. Jan, 2010 | Comments
Future Shock
"Secretly, I suspect, we technologists quite liked the idea that Normals would be dependent on us for our technological shamanism. Those incantations that only we can perform to heal their computers, those oracular proclamations that we make over the future and the blessings we bestow on purchasing choices."
(tags: article blog editorial frasierspeirs technology)
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