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11 Power Tips for Gmail

11 Power Tips for Gmail

Literary Review of Canada Online - In the Garden with the Guru

Literary Review of Canada Online - In the Garden with the Guru: "In the Garden with the Guru

Adventures with Marshall McLuhan

AN ESSAY
by Bob Rodgers"

Mike in Nantes: Some thoughts on my year in africa

Mike in Nantes: Some thoughts on my year in africa: "I set off in search of a phenomenon. I wanted to witness, observe, explore and participate in the living theology in “African” Christianity. Grasping at the literature available, I assembled my categories from the surface level aspects of liturgy to the seemingly burgeoning African Christology, which promises a more fundamental shift in Christianity. What began to happen over the year, however, is that the parts became a whole. Piece by piece, I began to understand the limits of my own categories, as inculturation, the subject of my research led me to medicine, education, justice, dialogue and prayer. These were not simply pieces of the puzzle, to be “Africanized”; they were intermeshed interdependent aspects of an experience that is betwixt and between identities. Moreover, as the year progressed, I found this same seamless fabric working in my life, often more in my failures than my successes, as the gap of objectivity that I placed between myself and my work instigated my own brokenness; a sign I took to be of a failure to integrate the parts into whole in my own life."

Bill Clinton and George Bush

I don't agree with this guy's politics,. but he seems to have Bush and Clinton pegged.

Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture | Your Home for Traditional Conservatism � The Way We Are Now—Facts That Just Won’t Sink In: "What is the difference between President Clinton and President Bush? Clinton was a liar and incapable of shame. Bush is a liar, incapable of shame, and dangerously ignorant, incompetent, and irresponsible.

What is the difference between Hillary Clinton and Mitt Romney? Mitt has better hair.

The media, the punditry, and a large part of the public seem unable to perceive bad character and incompetence in our leaders. Or maybe it just doesn’t matter any more."

Andrew Olmsted

Major Andrew Olmsted blogged from Iraq. This is his final, posthumous, post.

Kenyan Pundit

A good blog for keeping up with the crisis in Kenya


Kenyan Pundit: "-Speaking of documenting truth, it also occurs to me that we have no reliable figures of the real death tolls on the ground. Perhaps we can begin to collect information from organizations and individuals on the ground e.g. red cross, hospitals, etc. and start to build a tally online, preferably with names. Most of the people losing their lives will remain nameless, and it might be worthwhile to at least change that. Any volunteers/ideas?"

Legacy News: Free software to organize your digital pictures

Legacy News: Free software to organize your digital pictures

Notes from a Common-place Book: Remember the Balkans?

Notes from a Common-place Book: Remember the Balkans?

Old Believers

Going Along: Closing This Topic Off: "First things first: The Old Believers were right. The historical studies inaugurated in Russia during the nineteenth century and—in some sense—“completed” in Paul Meyendorff’s Russia, Ritual, and Reform presents the reality that with respect to the criticisms of praxis forwarded by the Old Believers, they had more than ample ground to stand on. The three-finger Sign of the Cross became normative in the Byzantine East between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries; the Slavonic liturgical texts, though lacking in uniformity, represent older practices than those enshrined by the Greeks in their seventeenth-century printed texts; the orthographical alterations in Slavonic were, by and large, unnecessary and contributed nothing significant to the liturgical texts themselves"

Mere Theology

Mere Theology: "The Company They Keep I have just finished reading The Company They Keep by Diana Pavlac Glyer. This is the definitive treatment to date of the literary group known as the Inklings--that group of writers and friends who gathered around C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien beginning in the 1920's and 30's in Oxford, England and continuing on, in some fashion, until Lewis's death in 1963. Glyer is professor of English at Azusa Pacific University in California, having received her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Therefore, as one might expect, this is an academic book reflecting the highest level of scholarship. The chapter endnotes are a feast in and of themselves for every reader fascinated not only with the Inklings but every reader intrigued by the study of literary influence and how writers can positively effect one another and the world when they work together in community."

Defend Life: Updated: Evaluation of 2008 Presidential Candidates Against US Bishops' Criteria

Defend Life: Updated: Evaluation of 2008 Presidential Candidates Against US Bishops' Criteria: "Here is how the candidates fared (revised 11/21): 1. Ron Paul (R): 99 points 2. Alan Keyes (R): 70 (not on the ballot in all states) 3. Mike Huckabee (R): 69 4. Duncan Hunter (R): 50 5. Tom Tancredo (R): 48 6. John McCain (R): 36 7. Chris Dodd (D): 25 8. Dennis Kucinich (D): 22 9. Mitt Romney (R): 10 10. Joe Biden (D): 5 11. Fred Thompson (R): 4 12. Hillary Clinton (D): (-11) 13. John Edwards (D): (-13) 14. Bill Richardson (D): (-15) 15. Barack Obama (D): (-15) 16. Rudy Giuliani (R): (-28) I"

Business Report - SA's richest 1% earn R300bn a year

Business Report - SA's richest 1% earn R300bn a year: "SA's richest 1% earn R300bn a year November 11, 2007 This is according to a research study published by the Bureau of Market Research (BMR) at the University of South Africa, which looked at an integrated model of the population, labour market and income and expenditure. There are 45 142 African people in the rich category and their combined income amounts to R22 billion. Of these, 8 201 are women. Whites still lead the ranks of the wealthy, with 229 076 of them earning R181 billion on an annual income of R500 000 a year each. "

The Ochlophobist: real ecumenicic, augustinomianisms, there's no such thing as the wicked witch of the west, or, we are all the wicked witch of the we

The Ochlophobist: real ecumenicic, augustinomianisms, there's no such thing as the wicked witch of the west, or, we are all the wicked witch of the west, etc., part 2.

The Continuum: English, how she should be spoken

The Continuum: English, how she should be spoken

Sex, gender and ordination of women

Notes from underground: Christianity, paganism and literature (synchroblog)

Notes from underground: Christianity, paganism and literature (synchroblog)

Link notes

ZAR: How the CIA defeated Apartheid & placed the ANC

ZAR: How the CIA defeated Apartheid & placed the ANC

Confuses the Liberal Party with the Democratic Party

Death and the Maiden: The Torturer Speaks

Death and the Maiden: The Torturer Speaks

Quotes Petru Dumitriu's novel Incognito.

Notes from underground: Descent into hell -- Coinherence and substitution

Notes from underground: Descent into hell -- Coinherence and substitution

Once again, I have to save a post in order to ed it it, because "link to this post in Blogger is broken.

Notes from underground: Courageous COWARDism: What would you do...?

Notes from underground: Courageous COWARDism: What would you do...?

Didn't really mean to post here, since it's in my main blog, but the "Edit HTML" on the "Links to this post" thing didn't seem to be working, so I posted it here to be able to edit it.

I wonder how long it will take to fix THAT bug in Blogger Bete -- it's been 9 months since it was made compulsory, and most of the features that didn't work then still don't work now.