January 2009

mrgan: Thelonius Monk’s advice to saxophonist Steve Lacy (1960) just absolutley tremendous. i’m printing this out and kicking my ass with it every morning. wow.

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Looks like a fun book (Saving Darwin: How to Be a Christian and Believe in Evolution ): Seeing and Believing: “Miller brilliantly exposes ID for what it is: a farrago of theological assertions and discredited scientific claims designed to inveigle a religious view of life into the biology classroom. IDers have no defined program of …

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[Later Addition/Redaction: As Prof Bibb points out in the comments below (and go read his fantastic blog, btw… I’ve been subscribed for the last few weeks and it’s one of my fav reads now), this is satire. And yes, I’m an idiot for a) not catching that and b) not doing my homework and clicking …

Testing My Faith Read More »

Growing up outside of a faith community (and in my hometown context, that meant Southern Baptist) until I was 13, my friends would often ask (even at our young age) how I knew right from wrong if I didn’t go to church. Those experiences have always stuck with me. Of course, those questions made sense …

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Being that I’m of the historical mindset, it’s something I ponder often… what will our archaeological legacy be if the bits that we are creating even survive the coming millennia? I’m not alone: I sometimes wonder what future archaeologists and historians will understand about our society. It may seem unthinkable that future scholars would have …

What Will Archaeologists Think of Us? Or Do Post-Moderns Dream of Electric Sheep? Read More »

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TallGlassOfMilk has a great listing of NASCAR fans, bloggers, press, teams and tracks that are on Twitter. I absolutely love this for a number of reasons.  It’s tremendous fun to watch an event (like a race) and interact with folks in real time on the web.  CNN and Facebook proved that during Obama’s inauguration last …

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http://drinkthis.typepad.com/answer_this/2009/01/nascar-on-twitter.html

http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE50P0PK20090126 Researchers reported on Monday that a growing trend of curbing free time at school may lead to unruly classrooms and rob youngsters of needed exercise and an important chance to socialize.

As a Christian, I believe in the redemptive quality of the creation (and humanity). That being said, I dare not speak for Pope Benedict XVI, but I can’t imagine why this move was made: Anger, Dismay as Pope Reinstates Holocaust Denier Has the work of John Paul II and his outreach to Jews been made …

Forgiving Holocaust Deniers? Read More »

Are you real? What does that mean, anyway? Our world may be a giant hologram – space – 15 January 2009 – New Scientist: “The idea that we live in a hologram probably sounds absurd, but it is a natural extension of our best understanding of black holes, and something with a pretty firm theoretical …

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http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1717/comment-page-2#comment-7655 “Can I be clearer than that? It’s a sucker’s game. It’s a game suckers play. If you are playing it, you are a sucker.”