I got a Kindle a little bit ago, and I've been availing myself of the books made available by the Gutenberg Project.

The Marvelous Land of Oz, is not nearly as good as The Wizard of Oz. Just in case anyone wondered.

If religion can't teach us about the secrets of the universe, what good is it?

Acessing the US Sentate's website through a proxy is faster then accessing it directly. How weird is that?

There seems to be something vaguely evil about a wilting rose blossom.

I think I've mentioned how I admire the spirit of entreprenurism that the Chinese seem to have. Today it occurred to me that many people are more or less forced start their own business. Wages are ridiculously low for blue collar workers and not really that great for white collar workers either if they have any dependents. If someone want to ( Read more... )

It's amazing how eager people can be to ignore inconvienent truthes. Even those that will kill them if they are not attended to.

Has anyone out there tried out an iPad? If so what did you think of it?

For a while now I've had the impression that when military types talk about "the lessons of Vietnam" they are talking more about avoiding the creation of a strong anti-war movement at home than staying away from endless wars....

It seems to me that sourcing most of the production for consumer markets overseas makes it even more difficult for small retailers to compete. When factories are far away from the retail outlets where their products are sold, going to the factory to make orders becomes something of a major ordeal for the retailers. Combined linguistic, cultural ( Read more... )

"Anyone , then who knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, commits sin" (James 4:13), and the wages of sin are death (all over the place in the Bible). If we take death to be more figurative then literal this fits nicely with personal experience ( Read more... )