Monthly Archives: October 2007
How to dress like a Mac
Here’s how to dress like a Mac, or rather how to spend almost $100 to look like you came from a thrift store and ended up in a TV commercial. The comments are HYSTERICAL, ranging from outraged PC lovers/Mac haters (“Act smug and supercilious.Spend $1000 too much on every computer you ever buy.Think Steve Jobs [...]
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Internal Critique of the Emergent Church
Here’s seven points that McLarenites/emergent folks ought to seriously take to heart. All really good points in my opinion, but I’m too sleepy to copy and paste for you. Just go. Read. Love. Agree.
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Mitt Romney on Faith: Coherent and Unwilling to Take the Bait
Here’s an Christianity Today interview with Mitt Romney, the Mormon govenor of Michigan who’s running for President. I don’t, to be honest, know anything about Romney’s politics. But in this interview, he’s prodded over and over about how how different Mormons are from evangelicals, and ‘how will that make a difference if you’re elected?’ And [...]
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More Don Chaffer
The rest of the Don Chaffer interview is up. And it’s REALLY good this time. Great stuff, particularly the last couple paragraphs about art. I’m going to roll this around in my brain a bit, and hope to post more on it later.
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Richard Dawkins Is Insane
Ok, it’s confirmed: Richard Dawkins, very loud athiest spokesman, is officiall insane. A week or two ago, I heard him on NPR say, in essence, that Sunday School teachers shouldn’t be suprised about 9/11 because they paved the way for that kind of thinking with what they’re teaching children. I wrote NPR an email suggesting [...]
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Clipping .avi Files
Whew. I finally find a tutorial on how to split or clip an .avi file. I had been using VirtualDub, but I had it processing my files and it was turning what should have been a few seconds of video (and thus a smaller file than the original) into files about 10 times the size of the original. [...]
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Death and Rebirth of CD Sales
Opus has an interesting post about the death of cd sales, or rather, their rebirth as promotional items for concert tickets and t-shirt sales. He also links to a thought-provoking article on the London Times online about the same subject that talks about artist and bands making more in concerts and merchandise and labels making [...]
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A Couple Things I Like About Linux
There’s plenty of things not to like about Linux (eg: to configure dual displays without editing a text file that, if edited wrong, could leave you stranded in scary text-only world forever, you have to install a new program that was only written in the last 6 months). However, there’s also plenty of things to [...]
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New MS Core Fonts