Thanks to Mark who pointed out that Ted Nelson, the inventor of hypertext is turning 70. Specifically, Mark linked to the birthday lecture Ted gave in anticipation of that birthday. It’s a massive download, but if you want to watch a man with a keen intellect, and omnivorous interests discussing a range of topics, it …
Monthly Archives: June 2007
Ten Photographic Mistakes
The Ten Most Common Photographic Mistakes
Pink Peppercorns
We had friends stay with us last weekend, and so kel prepared a recipe – slow cooked beef – that called for pink peppercorns. In fact, we couldn’t find them for sale in the supermarket, so we settled for a tin of Green peppercorns. I’d never heard of either before. You’ve probably never thought about …
Chinese Gold Farming
The strange lifestyle of the World of Warcraft Chinese Gold Farmer
where does the tax go?
[gordon] Who benefits from Australian tax dollars?
Greeting cards – what do they tell?
Al Mohler on Greeting Cards – are they a Barometer of Social Breakdown?
How to make Turkish Coffee
[Abstract Gourmet] How to make Turkish Coffee
visualising the new testament
Is this diagram all you need to visualise the new testament? Perhaps it’s a start.
greek: the end of semester one
My exam is over: the test itself wasn’t as bad as I was fearing; the split between memory work and translation was about 70/30. I don’t think I scored 100%, but I felt like I went pretty well. The real nightmare was in the lead-up to the exam: we had a vocabulary of over 400 …
Ulysses
There’s something wrong with reading a famous poem like Ulysses in a web browser; it seems to lack weight: still, I’m glad to have read it.