I need your help. If not now, when? If not you, who else? The other reader of this blog?! But you kind of have to know a little Greek—or at least know the letters and basic ideas about conjugation. Here's my problem: BDAG, the standard Κοίνη Greek lexicon, is telling...
Tech
OpenRange
I live in Taylors, SC, and around here my best option for Internet service has always been BellSouth/AT&T DSL. I didn't want television or phone service, just fast enough Internet to perform common tasks. That meant I was stuck at paying about $40 a month—more...
A Typographic Proposal for e-Books
This post uses Greek, but I promise that those who don't even know a little βιτ of Greek will still understand it if they try! This is what part of the entry for ἐλπίς (hope) looks like in the Logos version of BDAG (the standard Greek lexicon for NT studies): Those...
The Flip Side
Duncan Johnson made a valid comment on a recent post. The Internet may be an opiate for the people, but that's not the whole story. So here's something on the flip side. I recently attended a large evangelical-ish church while on vacation (and limited by snow from...
Western Assumptions about Technology
Americans assume that the Internet is a tool for democracy. Not necessarily so, says a new book (or rather a review of it). Authoritarian regimes make an implicit deal with their populations: help yourselves to pirated films, silly video clips and online pornography,...
Current Kindle Savings
I have now saved $83.26 on books by buying a Kindle. Admittedly, I would not have purchased some of these books had I not gotten a Kindle... And that would put the figure in the $60s. But I'm sure glad I bought those books (like Nothing to Envy, Stalingrad, and 1776)...
Technological Fun
News Flash
A new edition of the GNT for the digital age. Unicode, no DRM. And, at last, a printed GNT with sharp, beautiful typography? We'll see. HT: Rod Decker