We were waiting for the announcement, and now it's here: the Kindle DX. It appears to be no different from the Kindle 2 I have—except for a bigger screen, bigger storage, and a bigger price. That's 9.7" vs. 6"; 4GB vs. 2 GB; and $489 vs. $359. (The DX, targeting...
Tech
Too Legit to Twit
I happened to catch a little bit of Garrison Keillor's Prairie Home Companion last Saturday evening, and he had trained his satirical sights on Twitter. Dusty the Cowboy was tweeting every last detail of his life, to hilarious effect. Unfortunately, the sketch is not...
Gotta See
I hardly ever post YouTube videos, but this is amazing. Man's God-given powers are amazing. God is amazing. HT: Wes Hill
Mark Ward’s Miracle Word-Macro Wonder
The MWMWMW is now available for free—for a limited time only (till the Internet dies, I guess). Use this macro to 1) sharpen up any Word document and 2) impress nerdy people with proper use of a) en dashes and b) em dashes. This macro replaces -- with —. It also...
A TV Ramble
With all these new flat screens, they can't really call it the "idiot box" anymore. What, "idiot slate"? Just remember: the medium is the message. And if you're watching the idiot box, what does that say? I get the biggest kick out of the vision of our society painted...
Logos for Mac
I just got this e-mail from my friend Jonathan Bolin, a Ph.D. student and teacher at Piedmont Baptist College and Graduate School. I asked him if I could share it with my blog readers (watch for his own blog coming out soon, perhaps!): I got my copy of Logos for Mac....
The Christian Theologically-Inclined Reader and Kindle 2 (aka Kindle Review)
I saved up for my Kindle for a good while, and I was very excited to receive it! I have not been disappointed. Here are a few of the major benefits: The Kindle has made available to me texts that hitherto had been locked onto my computer. It's just not convenient to...
Get a Free ESV for your iPod Touch
If you have an iPod Touch, you can now get the ESV on it for free by following these steps: 1. Set up a Kindle account. 2. "Buy" the ESV for $0.00 (thanks, Crossway!). 3. Get the Kindle app in the iTunes store (thanks, Amazon!). 4. Read away! You can sync your...
New CSS
You complained. I answered. Thanks, old friend miahz, for updating my style sheet! Now links are much more easily distinguished from regular text, and a few other colors look better, too.
The Kindle Has Arrived—Carrying Technopolistic Questions!
My Kindle arrived today! It's very cool. I hope to liberate a lot of texts on my hard drive that I'm not reading. But I've been reading Neil Postman's Technopoly , and these lines struck me: "Every technology is both a burden and a blessing…. Technology giveth and...
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...
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...