So, as I am sure you all know, the iPad iTab was announced today.  It has a 9.7 inch screen and for all intents and purposes is a gigantic iPod Touch and runs all of the apps the iPhone runs… such as the Kindle App.
Last week, my Kindle 2 arrived in the mail.  I love [...]

Sometimes blog posts [1] are written that really capture a Zeitgiest.  Don Dudley, over at You See Dry Bones captured a lingering and unarticulated feeling I had about all my friend’s Twitter feeds, including my own.  Dudley points to the non-reformed favorite whipping boy, John “Jesus” Piper, transforming Twitter into a place of faux-holiness quotes:
They [...]

From Julia Esquivel in Threatened with Resurrection: Prayers and Poems from an Exiled Guatemalan (Elgin: The Brethern Press, 1982), 79-91.  I love how it uses Biblical language and themes to remind us at what price our comfort comes.  I’m thinking hard this holiday season about the intersection between religion, politics, exploitation, and thankfulness.  I pray [...]

As I am writing in the forums for my online class [1] I am linking to Google Books for citations.  I find this much more reputible than quoting from books my classmates don’t have or webpages out in the cloud somewhere.  As I am looking up citations for Justin Martyr equating [the feminine] [...]

I like to let my Xbox try her hand at writing every once and a while.  In this spirit, I set up a blog for my Xbox, Thecla [1] , over at 360Voice.com.  This is what Thecla had to say yesterday:
Like a king on his throne, hundiejo said ‘awaken’ and for him I [...]

via Collide.

The folks over at Wired worked up the following maps purporting to visualize the density of the seven deadly sins among our united states.  Their methodology is… interesting to say the least.  I’ll let you head over there to see how they went about graphing the most slippery of deviations from God’s will.
WIRED :: American [...]

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Here is a list of the tweets of some of the Major World Religions that Stephen Prothero has been tweeting about.  I am having my students pick 1 or 2 of them to unpack for one of their short assignments.  Here are the ones he has done so far:
Islam 140: Allah told Gabriel told the [...]

For those of you wanting to blog with Windows Live Writer, there are a couple of plugins that will allow you to upload regular files (first, two). Both work just fine, provided you mess with their inserts a bit.  Each of them, for some reason, wrap one or two div tags around the file link: [...]

Check this out, Stephen Prothero of Boston University is trying to tweet a course on Major World Religions ::Religion 101, in 140 Characters. 
Stephen Prothero is helping world religions make their way onto Twitter this summer, one 140-character tweet at a time.

The Boston University professor of religion is treating his account, sprothero, like a microcourse, [...]

After replacing my laptop 3-4 months ago, I finally skinned it.  I hemmed and hawed for a while about what pic to put on it and I finally settled on an Atomic Robo cover.  Check it out:
The little HP logo even still lights up:

Tasks, now in Calendar too – Everyone using Gmail needs to use Gcal and now “G”tasks.  They will change your life.
The Dish on Dishwashers – A really cool article on dishwashers from the New York Times.  There is stuff in there about water spots, cleaning dishes beforehand, etc. 
Harvard prof tells judge that P2P [...]

Meredith and I stopped using ethanol-laced gas a couple of years ago because we have a hard time burning food for gas.  Came across the following today: The Great Ethanol Scam.  Here are some selected quote to entice you to read the three page article:
First, the primary job of the Environmental Protection Agency is, dare [...]

Pictured: Weaksauce.

Forget the cat-like moto-terminators, our coming robot overlords (praise be unto thine OS) will apparently have freakish spider-dogs as pets. 
Pets that will kill us all. 
Oh, but the best part is, like all post-apocalyptic robot scenarios, we are building and perfecting the darn things for them!
I am so not kidding:

Seriously, watch all of [...]

In this edition of my desktop, you can see me working on my thesis.  I have it open on one side in Word 2007 and a Google Book open in FF on the other.  To optimize my workspace, I moved the Win7 taskbar to the side, turned on “full page view” in Google Books, minimized [...]

 
Kindle DX Offers 9.7 Inches of E-Ink for $489

• 9.7-inch E-Ink screen (1200 x 824 with 16 shades of grey) • 1/3 of an inch thick (10.4" x 7.2" x 0.38") • 4GB Storage for 3,500 books (a bump from 1,500) • Unspecified but "long" battery life [...]

Here is the deal, I wanna cancel my subscription to Tivo and turn my Tivos into media extenders, linux boxes that will serve up media from my desktop/htpc.  Anyone know how to do that, or if it is even possible?  All I want is for it to serve up media files from a shared network [...]

I got quite a bit of good feedback concerning my laptop skin.  One of the responders suggested using Reed Richards, given we are naming our son after him.  After looking around a bit, here are the pictures I liked the most:

Thoughts?