This is something I’ve been looking forward to for a long time. I’ve been looking for an application that would allow me to blog from my phone, and it appears that I found it. This app not only allows for posting text, but also pictures and other media. And being able to dictate my posts [...]
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From the “Not All People Are Jerks” department: A few weeks ago, Patrick Greene of San Antonio, was known in Henderson County simply as a professed atheist who threatened to sue Henderson County about the courthouse manger scene. Greene’s experience with Christians was of narrow-minded individuals who had treated him unkindly throughout his life. But [...]
Via Ars Technica: Laura J. Brown, deputy assistant administrator for public affairs for the Federal Aviation Administration, told the New York Times the agency will take a “fresh look” at electronics use on planes. This revisit will not include smart phones, but we as the masses still stand to benefit. By the end of 2012, [...]
It’s good to know that if I ever brick one of my iThings, the staff on the other end of the line will remain calm and professional. It’s nice, however, to know that it won’t be a completely foreign experience. I will be able to count on familiar things like passing the buck, (blaming the [...]
There’s an article on Israel Matzav discussing the troubling political atmosphere at Hebrew Union College, and it raises what I think is an interesting question. Should rabbis preach about political issues from the bimah? The answer to this question is, I believe, no. I believe this for a few reasons. First, the synagogue is a [...]
This article came across my Twitter, so since it seemed like it would be interesting, I gave it a read. I find it impossible to feel sorry for this guy at all. Not having the time to secure your wireless network is not an excuse. If you own a consumer router, it has a graphical [...]
I’m watching Fox News and looking at other news sources online, and according to CNN, Osama Bin Laden has been buried at sea. I’m sure, however, if there is a hell, his soul is already well ensconced in it, and he has to be at least somewhat disappointed that there weren’t seventy-two virgins waiting for [...]
Pompeii by Robert Harris My rating: 3 of 5 stars Pompeii is a novel set in 79 C.E., and opens two days before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. But while it is a sort of retelling of that eruption and its consequences, the eruption is not its main focus, and it contains plenty of suspense, [...]
Mary Stinemetz, 64, is suing the State of Kansas in order to receive a bloodless transfusion. She is in need of a liver transplant, and could receive one at the University of Kansas Hospital. There is already a liver available, and she is eligible for the transplant, but ordinarily the transplant requires a blood transfusion, [...]
In the new film “Invictus,” South Africa’s first black president inspects his first official paycheck. “This is terrible,” Mandela says. He decides he earns too much and subsequently donates a third of his salary to charity. Mandela’s humility and fiscal restraint would be as exotic in the nation’s capital as a giraffe atop the steps [...]
