Month: December 2008

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According to the Greek historian Polybius of Megalopolis (c.200-c.118), the First Punic War (264-241) between Carthage and Rome was “the longest and most severely contested war in history”. And indeed, it lasted almost a quarter of a century and probably, a million people lost their lives. In the end, Rome had conquered the island of Sicily, and had become a Mediterranean superpower. On this website, you can find the story of the First Punic War as it is told in the first book of Polybius’ World History:

First Punic War

Alien Demonology: Its Christian Roots | UFO Religions

http://michaelsheiser.com/UFOReligions/2008/12/alien-demonology-its-christian-roots/

I’m going to be blogging through this article over the next few weeks. It is one of the few scholarly articles that deals with demonology and the belief in aliens. It’s written by Christopher Partridge, the same religious studies scholar who edited the book UFO Religions, and whose chapter in that book I blogged about with respect to “Balducci’s Conundrum.”

my tweetdeck

so here is how I have TweetDeck set up in its own Space (bottom left) on my macbook pro (click the images to go to Flickr and see full sizes).

all tweets from everyone I’m following on the far left (rarely look at), Pals next (about 50 people I really follow), Watch (tech and news followings) and replies.

Continued in Part 2 (since TweetDeck scrolls right)…

Asheville group (from a Summize search for Asheville so I can see if anyone is tweeting about my hometown), PartnerCentric (from Summize search on term partnercentric, which is where I work), Wofford group (from Summize search on my alma mater), Replies and then Direct Messages.

looks crazy, but works well for me!