January 2010
23 posts
Jan 26th
“In the mid nineteen-eighties, Zucker was president of the Harvard Crimson and...”
– Back Issues: Late-Night Pranks: Back Issues : The New Yorker
Jan 21st
Aesthetics: Image, Artwork, and Truth: A... →
Jan 21st
“As an achievement in technical innovation, Avatar is phenomenal, a ride worth...”
– Jeffrey Overstreet in Image ◊ Good Letters: The IMAGE Blog ◊ Dumping Out the Toybox
Jan 20th
“Moralistic Therapeutic Deism is still the de facto practiced religious...”
– Lost in Transition | Christianity Today | A Magazine of Evangelical Conviction
Jan 19th
2010 Christianity Today Book Awards | Christianity... →
Very pleased that Souls in Transition (my pick) came out on top of the pile in Christianity and Culture. (also of note, friend Jerry Walls has an essay in Craig’s book God is Great… winner in apologetics.)
Jan 19th
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A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) →
Karen and I watch this last night. We’ve been working our way through some classic horror films (Halloween, Friday the 13th… Final Destination).  We enjoyed it, though we both found the coda nonsensical. A few random thoughts: 1) The concept is brilliant. Nightmares as real. Sleep as terrifying. 2) Freddy (“Fred” in this film) is less of the mephistophelian, trickster...
Jan 18th
Sarcasm punctuation mark aims to put an end to... →
Hey, guys that run SarcMark, when your employees said that they thought this was a good idea, they were being sarcastic.
Jan 16th
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Kimmel roasts Leno. (via Vulture)
Jan 15th
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Watching this. Objectified - A Documentary Film by Gary Hustwit on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
Jan 15th
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Reading philosophy isn’t as hard as people think. It just requires a lot of clutch work.
Jan 11th
“If you treat your faith like a hothouse flower, too vulnerable to survive in the...”
– Ross Douthat Let’s Talk About Faith - NYTimes.com
Jan 11th
“RT @deanabbott 3 greatest fears in descending order: 1) being sent to prison 2)...”
– philiptallon
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““I never anywhere argue in The Beauty of the Infinite for a ‘peaceful rhetoric’....”
– David Bentley Hart on the importance of being earnest (via Faith and Theology)
Jan 11th
LINK: The Canadian Press: Roxxxy the sex robot... →
I always thought Teddy Ruxpin was lame.  And 20 years after the advent of the interactive doll, and exponential advances in AI, there’s still little market for a seemingly-alive toy robot. I can’t imagine this interactive sex doll will fare any better.  (I’m tempted to make a play on Teddy Ruxpin, but decline). Though the internet has allowed pornography to penetrate the...
Jan 11th
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LINK: An Ethical Transgression: The Oreo Thief? -... →
Is eating then replacing a box of Oreos in the mini-bar ethically wrong? Looking at things from a Kantian perspective, seems universal-izable.  From a Utilitarian perspective, causes no harm.  From a Christian perspective, hardly seems like stealing, any more than if you broke a lamp (as mentioned in the linked post) and replaced it. The minibar is there for convenience, and it seems like its...
Jan 11th
@RiversCuomo: Guns n’ Roses may have been the first to associate paradise with a city—with grass in it, no less! Before Axl compared paradise to a city, John the Revelator did, apparently: biblegateway.com/passage…
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