There’s an interesting discussion of Jesus and the Gospel — What Really Happened? at Slate’s “the breakfast table.” New urban legend or frightening reminder of Bush’s America? It is unclear whether a U Mass-Dartmouth student was visited by Homeland Security agents because he checked out a copy of Mao’s “Little Red Book” via interlibrary […]
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Book list update: Don’t know what it says about me or Slate, but I’ve actually read more of its selections for best books of 2005 than any other list I’ve seen so far. My list will come later ’cause you never know what might a person might read in the next two weeks. Blatant […] Charlie Stross, he who writes SF that makes your brain hurt (in a good way) has posted an interesting “conspiracy theory.” To use one of his shorthand descriptions, we can blame William Gladstone for the mess in Iraq today. Since Gladstone died more than 100 years ago, go read Charlie’s blog entry to find […] A few recent odds and ends now that the Thanksgiving and snow break have ended and I’ve looked at something other than a book: I’m a big fan of Wikipedia. Now comes Wiktionary and it looks quite intriguing. Now I just need Firefox to add it to the options for its search box so I […] Although I haven’t checked extensively, so far one of the better analyses of the Padilla indictment I’ve seen in the blogosphere is at Discourse.net. From Tuesday’s WaPo (registration required…or BugMeNot): The Library of Congress is launching a campaign today to create the World Digital Library, an online collection of rare books, manuscripts, maps, posters, […] |
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