Do We Need a New Internet? – NYTimes.com
“As soon as you start dealing with the public Internet, the whole notion of trust becomes a quagmire,” said Stefan Savage, an expert on computer security at the University of California, San Diego. A more secure network is one that would almost certainly offer less anonymity and privacy. That is likely to be the great tradeoff for the designers of the next Internet. One idea, for example, would be to require the equivalent of drivers’ licenses to permit someone to connect to a public computer...
DeYoung, Restless, and Reformed
The quote below hit me. May God help us all to come out of this technological age knowing the Bible better than blogs. Are we experts in Scripture first? It's quite possible to be well-versed in Van Til's apologetics, Calvin's third use of the law, and David Well's critiques of evangelicalism without knowing well the verses of the Bible. We need to know the Bible better than any other book, memorize it, pray it, and teach it (not just a catechism) to our children.[Kevin DeYoung]
Amazon Kindle 2
I bought a Kindle 2. I've been planning and saving my book budget for several months, because I suspected that a new Kindle was in the works. To supplement that plan I sold a monitor I no longer needed. I also, of course, discussed it with my wife, and she's actually excited! Is this gadget lust? I hope not. I take the 10th commandment seriously. But ever since the eInk technology was released, I saw its value for reading the hundreds of books on my hard drive and on the Internet which I am...
How Much Weight Do I Put on One Greek Word?
Bill Mounce, ESV translator, is right on target: I have always taught that Greek grammar doesn’t necessarily answer all the questions definitively. Sometimes it does, but normally it gives us the legitimate range of possible interpretations, and then context and theology make the final determination. Read Mounce's whole post. One of the most helpful things I learned from my doctoral courses at BJ Seminary—and I learned this especially from Dr. Randy Leedy of BibleWorks NT diagram fame—is that...
“Etymology” = “and” + “shopping center” + “o” + “nonplussment”
A great point about the way languages changes—and how fickle people are about that—from John McWhorter in Books & Culture (Jan/Feb '09): Every word in a language is the end product of eons of heedless transformation. The lay public is mesmerized by this process and endlessly curious about it (so long as the explication doesn't become too technical) and yet tends to view current manifestations of the same kinds of change as lackadaisical and repellent. If ēt picked up a stray g in early Old...