Author: Glen

The wow kicks in from 33 sec­onds through the end of the race.

An amaz­ing Par­a­lympics per­for­mance

Or rather, just an amaz­ing per­for­mance, full stop. I was alert­ed to this video by Dun­stan Orchard who tweet­ed “this must be t

Spur­geon real­ly was a boss. Wow.

Pyro­ma­ni­acs: “Use the Pen”

Good men there have been and are who could do far more ser­vice for God and his church by their pens if they would write less and write bet­ter. They flood our sec­ond-rate mag­a­zines with tor­rents of ver…

I’m a big met­ric fan… but I like this per­spec­tive a lot. In relat­ed news, it annoys me that “microwaves” have longer wave­lengths than vis­i­ble light.

Why I pre­fer Fahren­heit to Cel­sius — Imgur

Imgur is used to share pho­tos with social net­works and online com­mu­ni­ties, and has the fun­ni­est pic­tures from all over the Inter­net.

This is good stuff. I also like the mild­ly clever title. Here’s mine: “delve but don’t dwell” or maybe “observe but don’t obsess”

Inspect but Don’t Intro­spect

Thomas Chalmers said, Thomas Chalmers said,

I love this web­site, and I love this com­ic in particular. 

pho­to

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It’s amaz­ing how often I need to do this. 

John Walken­bach orig­i­nal­ly shared this post:

If I, liv­ing in Tuc­son, AZ,  want­ed to meet a per­son who lives in Rhode Island, this site tells me the half-way point: Phillips­burg, MO. You can add oth­er loca­tions, and it will tell you the opti­mal meet­ing point for the group.

Let’s Meet in the Mid­dle — Geo­Mid­point

Finds the ide­al restau­rant or oth­er point of inter­est halfway between two or more address­es. Meet your friend or busi­ness con­tact for lunch.

I find it inter­est­ing that when Tim Keller thinks about the insti­tu­tions nec­es­sary for the emer­gence of evan­gel­i­cal­ism he imme­di­ate­ly thinks of “a cou­ple of key sem­i­nar­ies laid the ground­work for the move­ment, and Cru­sade, Inter­Var­si­ty, and Nav­i­ga­tors raised up the foot sol­diers.” Col­lege min­istry mat­ters.

The Rise of New Calvin­ism, the Inter­net, and Two Oth­er Fac­tors

Tim Chal­lies adds an impor­tant ele­ment to the ongo­ing dis­cus­sion: the inter­net. I put forth two addi­tion­al fac­tors: mak­ing things free and build­ing organizations.Tim Chal­lies adds an impor­tant ele­ment…

First, I find it inter­est­ing that the guy is not actu­al­ly an athe­ist, although I can under­stand why they chose the title. Sec­ond, I found this bit at the end very insight­ful:
“Q: Can’t you do a project of this scope at a top uni­ver­si­ty like Cal­tech?

Koch: No. Uni­ver­si­ties are great at pro­duc­ing indi­vid­ual sci­en­tists who are bril­liant at push­ing new ideas, but the entire sci­en­tif­ic endeav­or is con­struct­ed on the notion of being hyper-com­pet­i­tive and as dif­fer­ent as pos­si­ble from oth­er peo­ple. Oth­er­wise, you don’t get a Ph.D. You don’t get tenure. You don’t get grants. You don’t get papers in high pro­file jour­nals. So it’s very dif­fi­cult to focus an enor­mous amount of research in a dis­ci­plined way.”

On Rec­on­cil­ing Athe­ism and Mean­ing in the Uni­verse

“Roman­tic reduc­tion­ist” neu­ro­sci­en­tist Christof Koch dis­cuss­es the search for mean­ing in the world of sci­ence, and the philo­soph­i­cal influ­ence of work­ing with Fran­cis Crick.

Scott Adams is, in my esti­ma­tion, one of the most gift­ed humor writ­ers alive today.

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2012–08-29/

Yikes. Chi­na gonna fall down go boom.

Christo­pher Bald­ing on the real risk in Chi­na

In the past 5–8 years, and espe­cial­ly the past 3, Chi­na has built an enor­mous amount of stuff that nobody wants, needs, or uses. Fueled by a lend­ing boom that began in late 2008 and tripled total len…