Jeff Bezos Is Indulging His 11-Year-Old Self And We Love It
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If you had asked an 11-year-old Jeff Bezos to let his imagination run wild and think of the stuff that he would most dream to have as an adult, he might have said:The world’s biggest bookstore! Maybe even a bookstore that can beam any book directly to your hand in an instant (and movies and [...]
Streets without name – A geek in Japan
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In Japan, street are simply an empty space in between blocks, they don’t have an identity. However you can identify buildings following a 3 digit system: the first one indicates the district, the second one the block and the third one the building or house inside the block. It is a completely different, but perfectly [...]
New Stalin statue up… in America
No, seriously.
I’m suddenly inspired to take up vandalism. How much trouble does one get in for destroying a $50,000 statue?
The Land of Milk and Jam?
I need a new religion.
Or a philosophy – I’d be OK with that, too. I’m not limiting myself to theist solutions. Any and all world views may apply.
My cousin recently wrote on his Facebook page: ”Well, it’s official, college is a wrap. The question now is, are we going to at least try …
How was I supposed to know I should take a magazine with this cover seriously?
It’s been a pretty big surprise to me that one of the few magazines out there still interested in shedding some real light on how things work today in Washington D.C. is RollingStone. I mean, yeah, they were cool enough to print stuff from P.J. O’Rourke, but those were basically humor columns. Yet …
Recommended podcasts
After three months, Anna and I have finally grown confident enough about the stability of our lives here in Korea that we’ve entered into a contract for internet service in our apartment. This means I’m listening to podcasts on my iPod again after about six months’ abstinence from them. Here are my favorites:
Common …
The Bible Role Playing Game
So I’m poking around the internet for a directory of given names for Midianites or Amalekites and I find this – a step-by-step, program-assisted guide to creating whatever Canaanite name you want.
Apparently it was created as a tool for people playing roleplaying games in an ancient Canaanite setting – that is, playing Dungeons & Dragons …
No commentary today
I’d planned to finish up my commentary on the Book of Joshua today – there’s little enough material in the last chapters that I think I can do it in one entry – but my father sent me a very hefty e-mail and I ended up writing a day’s worth of words for him instead.
The …
"Is the Bible Fact or Fiction?" in TIME
TIME’s running a feature-length article on their website about how archaeologists are informing our understanding of the Bible. I note that they quote Israel Finkelstein, the book of whom is one of my primary resources for my commentary on the Book of Joshua.
I wish the reporter had added a little more detail to this …