With the flip of a switch last week, the last factory in the United States making old style incandescent bulbs – the kind Thomas Edison spent much of the 1870s perfecting – closed down for good. Like the other factories … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: September 2010
The Way We Live Now – a parent of a home schooler imparts some excellent principles about technology. [HT: Alan Jacobs] Every new technology will bite back. The more powerful its gifts, the more powerfully it can be abused. Look for … Continue reading
From time to time, I like to share programming experiments that relate to the digital world. Here, I’ve applied recent Internet memes to Bible tools. How Long Does it Take to Read the Bible? The first applies the minisite principle of … Continue reading
The release of the iPad earlier this year kickstarted a new wave of discussions about the death of print and how magazines and book publishing will work in the digital era. But there were signs that the print world was … Continue reading
This weekend, I took my kids to a nearby park and while we were playing I met a little Russian girl named Sasha who was there with her grandmother. The grandmother was a native of Russia and didn’t speak much … Continue reading
In my seminary Hebrew courses, we had to read the laws of several ancient near eastern societies and compare them to the 10 commandments of the Bible. Interestingly, most of them contain laws about not killing, stealing, or taking another … Continue reading
