Via Pazzo Blog » Blog Archive » Books you’ll never read: Instead of suggesting books you might like to buy, based on what you've bought before, Library Thing has the Unsuggester – plug in a book you've read or you own, and it comes back with a list of books you probably would not want to read. The Lord of the Rings (Collector's Edition) So I plugged in one of my all-time favorite books…and found that apparently, Mary Higgins Clark is the Anti-Tolkien.
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Posted by a commenter at Father Jake Stops the World I've lost track over the years of the citation, but there was a book published in the last generation that reviewed growing congregations across denominational lines (including Episcopal churches). That study found five factors as important: 1) good preaching; 2) good music; 3) good adult Christian education; 4) opportunities for hands-on service ministries; and 5) small group interactions. (Interesting, considering the attention it has always gotten, that Christian education of children wasn't afactor.) As a frequent supply priest over the years, I've been really surprised and saddened at the…
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Ship of Fools: Features WE DECIDED TO DO SOME technological digging to find out what had been going on. The fact that Freddie, our Mystery Worshipper, had given no name for the priest in the Abbey report was starting to look rather convenient. Had we been hoaxed? Via Dylan's Grace Notes… this reads better than an old-fashioned mystery novel.
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I was up far too late last night tinkering with this WordPress beta version of my blog, I admit that. Moments after posting a comment over at DDtB inviting folks over for a preview, I enabled a “Friends” macro to point automatically to his blog. I set it to recognize his nick, ***Dave. Then I changed a couple of style options directly, in the style.php file that my husband David has warned me repeatedly not to mess with. So I wasn’t sure what exactly I had done when I refreshed my screen to see my changes, and POOF!! No blog!…
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‘Schroedinger’s Ball’ by Adam Felber – The New York Times – New York Times I have to admit, I’m a Fanatical Apathist, so I’m looking forward to reading Adam Felber’s new novel. I’m a little puzzled by this review in the Grey Lady, though – did the reviewer like the book, were they charmed enough to imitate the style, or just showing off that they “get” all the romantic metaphors possible with a solid background in quantum physics? Anyway, it sounds pretty darn good for a WWDTM denizen, so well done Adam. Take 20th-century physics, add Johann Strauss, the Waltz…
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Simply Recipes: Chicken Paprikash Recipe mmm!! Something to do with the leftover yogurt from tonight: substitute it for sour cream in this recipe for Chicken Paprikash! 1 whole chicken (about 3 1/2 pounds), cut into 8 pieces 1 Tbsp butter, softened 1 garlic clove, crushed 2 large onions, thinly sliced 1 Tbsp sweet Hungarian paprika 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/4 cup chicken broth 2 Tbsp sour cream
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The Archaeology Channel – Atipanakuy This video of two Peruvian “scissors dancers” seems to be making some sort of point about the struggle between native Peruvian and imposed Spanish culture through the ages, but I’m damned if I can make it out. It’s in Quechua with Spanish and English subtitles, but the text seems to be saying something about dreams and harps and violins and a lot of poetic what-not. As the Scotsman newspaper notes in a review elsewhere, “for specialist tastes only” as the ritualistic nature of this dance apparently involves putting objects up the nose, which is “rather…
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Boing Boing: How thieves steal RFID-enabled cars Apparently, it’s absurdly easy to steal a car by hacking or social engineering if it has a RFID key. And some Honda hybrids apparently can be started with a sekrit combination of pulls on the emergency brake and a faked or disabled key in the ignition.
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HULK’S DIARY THAT IS ON THE INTERNET Aw! The big green guy is now Our Man In Blue, keeping New York safe and filling out paperwork like this: Hulk stopped robbery by smashing puny van that jewel thieves were driving and then Hulk had a milkshake and walked an old lady across the street. This is what Hulk did today. That’s the nicest “sorry I haven’t been blogging much lately” post I’ve seen in a while.
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Just in fromJoi Ito’s Web: Firefox Cosplay-a-rama. Stormtrooper Danny Choo took on the Akibahara district of Tokyo with other cosplay aficionados, spreading Firefox. “You don’t need to use Internet Explorer.” “We don’t need to use Internet Explorer. Move along. Move along.”