Entries Tagged 'Miscellaneous' ↓

A church in Oklahoma thought it was a good idea to lure teens to a youth conference by giving away an $800 semiautomatic assault rifle. Thankfully the event was cancelled when one of the pastors injured his foot — no doubt an act of providence I can only hope happened like this [YouTube]. I wonder [...]

A quick public service announcement for those like me prone to sunburn: you can get burned while sitting in the shade. I learned this today after spending a few hours reading on our balcony. The weather was hot but breezy, and I was just wearing shorts and an A-shirt (I’m not comfortable writing the more [...]

Enter keywords or a URL into the TouchGraph Google Browser and you’ll get a nice visualization of website connectivity based on Google search results.  After the map is generated you can filter certain sites and dynamically recluster your results (though with little documentation it’s not immediately clear what’s being accomplished). The results for JimGibbon.com were [...]

Here is the only fashion advice I’m every going to give on this website: Opt for anti-reflective lens coating when you get your next pair of glasses. It’s worth the money. It’s really a shame that sales people make it seem like this option is the equivalent of undercoating on a used car or an [...]

The public editor of the NY Times calls out the paper for writing 3,124 articles on Nielsen ratings over the last 25 years and only mentioning “margin of error” twice. In other words, the paper has consistently reported Nielsen TV rankings without discussing whether the differences among show rankings were statistically significant. You thought you [...]

You know the Bible 98%!   Wow! You are awesome! You are a true Biblical scholar, not just a hearer but a personal reader! The books, the characters, the events, the verses – you know it all! You are fantastic! You agree with Jeremy that this blurb is excessive! You grow weary of so many [...]

This is a tangent, but did anyone else think it was just a little too coincidental that on the same day it became possible to pre-order Harry Potter and the Deathly Gallows, we learn that nude pictures of Daniel Radcliffe (the actor who plays Harry Potter in the movies) are being used to promote a [...]