I’ve been tagged by David Ker, for the Blog Day meme thing, which even comes with its own tag. Some people like David and Eddie are adapting the rules to suit, and I think I shall do likewise. I have no idea about new blogs really, only ones that are relatively new to me.
So, [...]
Someone seems to have been travelling in time. Last Tuesday I posted something mildly rude about Jim West (as you do). According to Technorati, James McGrath linked to this post 14122 days ago! James, when can I get a ride in your Tardis?
When is a comment spam? Most of the time it’s fairly obvious, and at the moment I seem to be getting an awful lot that is just more-or-less sexual words strung together in nonsense paragraphs – a kind of rude Anglo-Saxon Lorem Ipsum. Today, however, I received a very lengthy comment, sort of about baptism, [...]
I’m grateful to Nick Knisely for a link to this story. The trends reported suggest that there is a seasonal variation to nuclear decay which is being tentatively linked to distance from the sun. Clearly this is something deserving of further investigation. One of the slightly tangential questions that struck me reading this is whether [...]
… or at least he casts doubts on the rationality of philosopher Stephen Law for doubting the existence of Jesus. I must say Law seems to me to be (1) ignorant of the facts, and (2) poor at distinguishing between different types of argument. Let me illustrate.
He is either ignorant of, or cavalier with, the [...]
From Jim’s blog today, first, on the fairly abstruse debate about the “Vision of Gabriel” stone:
To be sure, truth isn’t determined by majority vote. But arguments that persuade more folk familiar with the issues to one side or the other usually have truth on their side.
On issues of obscure archeological details, and overblown [...]
A few weeks ago I posted a couple of pics of some two day old puppies. Today I went to visit them again, and look how they’ve grown. They weren’t very keen on standing still for photos, however.
In what strikes me as a somewhat odd discussion of the word “apostle”, Mike Sangrey at Better Bibles makes some statements of the sort that nearly always give me at least mild apoplexy.
I think this underscores an important need Bible users have regarding their interaction with a translation:
They need clear, accurate definitions of [...]
You can do anything with statistics. At the moment lots of countries seem to be counting medals, especially gold ones. I wondered what would happen if, say, you introduced population figures into the mix. In this exercise I’m using the medal table as presented by the BBC at the timing of this post. For population [...]
When I heard this on the radio a few days ago, I got a fit of the giggles. Now (HT Two Blokes Blog) it’s on YouTube. Steve McClaren, former England manager now with Dutch club FC Twente, talks to the press about their draw with Arsenal. Since he speaks no Dutch, he decides to pronounce [...]
