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(Note: This entry has nothing to do with that leopard love story, Honore de Balzac’s A Passion in the Desert.) Interesting report from Country Keepers about The Passion making a significant splash in Qatar and Kuwait, generating among Muslims an interest in Jesus and Scripture. Ironically, interest in the film was piqued by word of […]
+ And when your children say to you, “What do you mean by this service?” you shall say, “It is the sacrifice of the Lord’s Passover, for he passed over the houses of the people of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians but spared our houses.” + And as they were eating, he […]
So last week was an interesting one, memetically: a link from Instapundit to the Kerry Daisy, and an April Fools’ barrage of links to the March for Web Standards, spawned from A Whole Lotta Nothing, Boingboing, StopDesign, and WaSP — all this within a span of two days. Traffic jumped from an average of about […]
(I extended this entry a bit, and moved its timestamp back a few hours so that I could say: today is 04-04-04!) The cherry blossoms were at their peak yeasterday, so Amy and I spent the day strolling around the Tidal Basin in a clockwise direction, enduring cold winds and heavy tourist traffic to admire […]
A bonny Saint Patrick’s Day to ye, lads and lasses. Before you all break out the shamrocks and Guinness tonight, take a few minutes to read up on the history of Patricius, missionary to the Irish. Here’s Patrick in a nutshell from Ireland’s Eye, a more detailed history from the Roman Catholic Encyclopedia at New […]
Garver demonstrates intertextual relations via Scripture viewed through the lens of modern allusion. I’m not a big fan of “postmodern” Christianity with its insistence on over-sacramentalizing popular culture, but the illustrated intertextualization is an excellent demonstration of Scripture working similarly within its original context: referencing culturally relevant motifs of the day to present a familiar […]
“diffract fluffy dodecahedron bolshevist heretofore fondle astronaut compulsory biracial germantown covert eskimo material b</bluefish>u</deconvolve>y<bismuth> amen” Welcome to spam’s new can: “hash-busting”: long strings of randomized words which spammers send to try and confound your mail application’s spam filters. Joke’s on them, of course. Mail filters don’t just hash out specific words, they also check other […]
On an unusually warm January day in Washington, DC, the Reflecting Pool is dry, and people walk or skate freely across it. Other photos from a skate around DC today: Photo taken with a Palm Zire 71.
No papers By this time, I should be in the air, on a plane to Manila to join my family in time for Christmas Eve. Instead I am here at home, and I have a story to tell. Dulles Airport is not the easiest airport to get to from the DC area. The cheapest way […]
Leonard Nimoy should eat more salsa. William Shatner lookalike. A star for Scotty. Free TV’s Wil Wheaton. Jeff Goldblum is watching you poop. People for the Ethical Treatment of Alex Baldwin.