Encyclopedia Judaica Free Online
The Encyclopedia Judaica is a massive, expensive, respected reference work. Immediately upon looking up a word in the new Internet edition, I recognized the contributor who wrote the article: Yigael Yadin, famous Israeli leader and archaeologist. The entire work has been made available for free online by the generous donation of the couple you'll see when you click here. Update: Numbers of people come to my blog by searching for "Encyclopedia Judaica Free Online." I'm sorry to have to inform...
Logos 4: Well Done, Aesthetic Department!
I'm compelled to say it: Logos 4 is a very attractive piece of software. This wannabe graphic designer has really enjoyed the visual improvements over Logos 3. I hope to write more as time passes about the functionality of the interface, but so far I'm impressed with that, too.
Conspiracy, Conspiracy!
I regularly receive e-mails from a concerned friend alerting me to conspiracies to destroy America. I've often struggled to know what to say to him, because if his claims are not provable, they're equally impossible to disprove! Wild-eyed, alarmist, a little wacky—but not absolutely disprovable. Kind of like the existence of a race of hostile marshmallow people on the back side of Pluto. You never know... G. K. Chesterton has provided me one helpful key in dealing with such a problem, and I...
Living with a Typography Nerd
My wife says she knows what it's like to live with someone who talks like this. Just one egregious example from the Greenville area: Cherrydale Point. Who chose that awful logotype? Poorly trained hamsters? Communists?! And don't get me started on PowerPoints...
Logos 3 to Logos 4
I love Logos, and I’m going to teach others how to love it in January. But it took till today for me to (accidentally) find out that you can upgrade to Logos 4 from Logos 3 for free. It’s all here. And for the life of me I cannot find any page on the Logos site which describes exactly which books I’ll get if I upgrade from Gold ND to Gold LE. I gather I’ll get several more NAC volumes—but which ones? Can anyone enlighten me?