Arriving home from work late last night, I browsed to The New York Times and was delighted to see this article analyzing the fact that evangelical Christians were relatively less impacted by the housing collapse.
The NYT piece discusses a recent IMF report published by an economist at the organization, which purports to show that evangelical [...]
On the same day that two Eastern Orthodox Christian sects get in a bloody brawl over a church in Jerusalem (warning, graphic video), we get this truly insane story of a fracas over baptism between Mormons, Jews, and Catholics.
Apparently, Mormons are allowed to perform a ritual that is intended to “baptize” dead ancestors so that [...]
A big “thank you” to whichever reader recommended I read “De La Mettrie’s Ghost”! The recommendation was made in comments to another post 2 years ago, and I only recently got around to reading it. In fact, I got annoyed with it at first, and put it down to finish a couple of other books. [...]
Purveyor of beauty Khoi Vinh laments the deteriorating state of his handwriting.
I’ve noticed the same with my handwriting. He and his readers draw the conclusion that beautiful writing is a casualty of technology. I recently had a related insight, about technology’s impact on beauty in general.
Tim Sneath recently helped the British Library digitize some of [...]
AUX 88’s song Electric Light, (from Xeo-Genetic) is one of my favorite electro techno songs. The intro starts with:
“Momma told me there would be light at the end of the tunnel. But she never told me it would be …”
Then the chorus, “if you can see, what I can see, then you will come with [...]