I’ve got little to add to the Unitarian Universalist Ministers Association decision to move their before-General-Assembly meetings to a location outside the port security area, and thus avoiding the brouhaha around an ID check for General Assembly proper. The UUMA decision seems right, the tone of the letter is appropriate and avoids it the [...]
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Unicode? If you have a well-stocked font . . .
you should see these “miscellaneous symbols” that might be useful to any number of religious congregations. Just a sampling, in Unicode order.
☕ Hot Beverage
☎ Solid Telephone
☏ Outline Telephone
☧ Chi Rho
☪ Star and Crescent
☸ Wheel of Dharma
♿ Universal Access
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Why the primaries remind me of church
Let me start by saying I don’t attend worship these days. I went to Christmas Eve services, but before that I can’t recall when. It is hard to stir me into the shower and into tidy clothes to face a service that’s tedious, antiquated, self-serving, mindless, frantic, implicitly homophobic or any of the other faults [...]
Wikipedia Day 2008
Wikipedia, the community written and reviewed online encyclopedia, is seven years old today.
I think its value in collecting human knowledge is immense. (For as good as Google can be and for how much I use it, I’m a little chilled at its thrust towards amalgamating all data.) But it is more valuable being a [...]
Only need one typeface
Hubby and I went galivanting this past weekend, riding Metro to get to our destinations. We entered the Dupont Circle station, which he dubbed Helevticaland. The reason is obvious: the Metro system relies exclusively on that mid-century typographic heavy-weight and, in that context, makes everything seem serene and ideal, even when (as was the [...]
A look at the Acer Eee
While the XO Laptop is an interesting piece of hardware, two of its best features are out of reach for North Americans who want buy one in the current “Buy One, Send One” promotion.
You don’t get the power crank that lets you power the machine away from mains electricity.
You don’t get the critical mass of [...]
“Clergy for Obama”
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Links for January 12
Goodness, I’m reading 201 news feeds now through Google Reader. Let me step back and point out some goodies I’ve read over the last few days.
A lengthy post at the Better Bibles Blog distinguishing internal Christian secrets and mysteries of the faith. (Which makes me want to ask what good reason a religion today has [...]
Looking at worker cooperatives
Last night, the BBC America World News ran a clip about worker cooperatives in Argentina, evidently recycled from a domestic BBC report from last October. More than perhaps anywhere else — Spain might be the exception — Argentina’s worker-owned cooperatives pick up and recover what scraps the owners of failed businesses left behind. And [...]
Praying for Barack Obama: why and how
Kim Hampton replied to my last post, writing:
It’s funny that you’re writing about this today. I’ve been thinking about fear for the past week or so (especially since Barack won in Iowa). I’ve worried the whole time that Barack has been in the race that he would get shot.
Yes, I’ve been harboring a fear [...]
