I use LibraryThing to keep track of the books I’m recently reading, as you can see in my sidebar. But it’s also a terrific, rapidly growing community of book-lovers that is starting to reach the kind of critical mass whereby some fun data manipulation can take place.
They’ve been getting better at suggesting books to you based […]
Archive for November, 2006
I just came across an article titled Doubts Cast on Hybrid Efficiency (HT: Signal vs. Noise) that essentially says that Hybrids are less efficient than their conventional counterparts. Interesting.
A research study was performed that calculated the total energy cost it would take to plan, build, sell, drive and dispose of a vehicle from initial concept to […]
In the Vineyard, we have a relational-centric idea of authority. Well, ideally speaking, anyways. In that vein, Jac and I are starting to meet with the Bests and some other young leaders to bounce ideas off of each other, draw on the Bests’ experience in church planting and learn from each other in community.
There were a […]
What’s the cost of war? Obviously there’s so many ways to measure it in terms of the devastation it wreaks on untold numbers of lives. But, let’s be more crass here: show me the money. The National Priorities Project shows its version of the Cost of War:
Currently, the War in Iraq has cost $341,390,328,877.
Instead, we could […]
Well, here’s a theological turn. It’s surprising how little theology I post compared to how much I’m knocking about theological ideas in me noggin. I’m currently reading Craig A. Evans’ article “The Beginning of the Good News in the Gospel of Mark” (in Hearing the Old Testament in the New Testament) for a paper I’m […]
It seems like this blogging thing will never get past novelty level for most people. I see so many people set up blogs just to have one, it seems, and it’s tough to keep any momentum going in this medium when you don’t know why you’re doing it.
And then you stumble across a guy like Scot […]
