Random Free Cartoon Friday
I know this is obscure. I’m not trying to be elitist; I just couldn’t shake this idea. Don’t try too hard to figure it out. It’s not really very funny. I’ll just give one hint: I spent a lot of time this week reading one of the hugest, strangest, bestest festschrifts I’ve ever run into.
ICM
Islamic Contemporary Music was profiled recently in the NY Times. This line jumped out at me (where he says “music” I think you can safely read “pop music”): “People say you can’t mix God and music,” Tamer said. “But we’re trying to show you can.” Interestingly, the story features author Timil al-Fishra, an opponent of ICM, and his book The Jihad for Islamic Music. A younger upstart also opposed to ICM is Faroud “Scott” Al-iol and his book No Sounds in Worship.
I See Where They’re Going with This!
AutoHotkey
One of my favorite little programs is AutoHotkey. You can write nearly any macro script you can think of to perform nearly any task you do often. I’ll give one example. I found that I was regularly having to find my tagged link for Amazon books, copy it, and paste it into a blog post or e-mail. So I wrote a little script that would just print it out for me, and I assigned it to Alt+F10: http://www.amazon.com/dp/ISBNHERE/?tag=marklwardjr-20 When I needed the link, I would go to Amazon, grab the...
Kindle Investment
A reader writes, I have a question about e-readers. Going into the ministry, and seeing the great number of books that I am already collecting, I am considering making an investment into an e-reader mainly for convenience and a smaller book shelf! My main concern however is that my choice in a reader would lock me into that particular brand for all eternity. For example, if I choose the Kindle and I choose to upgrade 5 years from now to a Sony Reader, would I have to start over again in...