Five years
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008This blog — more than 2,300 posts on — is five years old today. Thank you for reading and participating.
Archive for May, 2008
Fuel co-ops?
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008I think that Americans (in particular) need to reduce petroleum use, which is all well and good unless you think of people who rely on fuel oil to heat their homes. That’s when the notion of discretionary driving runs head long into people freezing to death.
Friend and ministerial colleague Hank Peirce’s comment gave me pause:
Thanks […]
NYT: Lessig on orphan works copyright
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008Stanford Law professor and Creative Commons founder Lawrence Lessig had an opinion piece in the New York Times today worth reading, even if copyright issues aren’t your first concern. (”Little Orphan Artworks“)
The problem is that there quite a few mature works that are not old enough to be in the public domain but where the […]
Are churches planning ahead for expensive oil?
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008I keep up with oil prices — and even with the recent increases past $90, $100 and $110 — yelped when New York crude jumped to more than $129 in morning trading.
Moan as I might about governments failing to plan for change and groan as I might that warnings about a bubble seem like […]
I missed Unitarian Week in Nantes!
Monday, May 19th, 2008If you read French — I don’t, though I can pick out enough to get the gist — you might enjoy reading about these activities with the Unitarians and fellow-travelers.
“à Nantes, les unitariens sont en relation avec d’autres croyants” (Assemblée fraternelle des chrétiens unitariens)
Resource for getting around at GA
Monday, May 19th, 2008Scott McNeill has created a site with details and photos for the amenities General Assembly attendees might need in Fort Lauderdale.
Ft. Lauderdale Info for GA 2008
Boston NPR station streams in free format
Saturday, May 17th, 2008Good news from the Free Software Foundation: Boston National Public Radio broadcaster WBUR has begin streaming its content in the free Ogg format. The importance?
Unlike MP3, Windows Media, Real Audio or Quicktime, Ogg Vorbis is not restricted by software patents. The threat of these patent lawsuits chills independent development of multimedia software tools. The use […]
Blog in review: July-September 2005
Saturday, May 17th, 2008A good bit of Katrina-related blogging — ephemeral — mixed with thoughts about polity in the third quarter of 2005.
The first PDF to download for planting churches
Saturday, July 2nd, 2005
If your planting a church and are collecting good resources, download this first.
Infection and the common cup
Sunday, July 3rd, 2005
I bring this up because of the […]
The right Bible for the kids
Saturday, May 17th, 2008Friend and ministerial colleague Adam Tierney-Eliot (Parsonage Life) reviews his picks for age-appropriate Bibles and Bible readers for children from pre-K through high school.
Good same-sex couple news from D.C.
Friday, May 16th, 2008I didn’t even know the Omnibus Domestic Partnership Equality Amendment Act of 2008 was in the works and — lo! and behold — it passed the District of Columbia Council unanamously. Now the Congress has thirty legislative days to kill it; if there’s no action, it becomes law. If there’s a rumble, I shall call […]
