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Bringing the early issues of The King’s Business online is a boon to
historians of American religion and culture. It was among the major
voices of conservative Protestantism, and its location on the west coast
gave it an unique perspective on the cultural issues at stake during the
first half of the twentieth century. Quite simply, there is nothing else
online like it for scholars and others interested in historical
materials. This venture is terribly important for increasing both the
religious and historical literacy of today’s citizens, who are more
computer savvy than they are knowledgeable about the great events and debates that created the world we live in. The King’s Business online
will doubtless prove helpful to both research and teaching, as it will
no doubt find its way into classrooms across the country once its
existence is advertised. Extending its offerings through the next couple
of decades will only serve to expand its already considerable usefulness.

—Philip Goff
Director, Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture
Associate Professor of Religious Studies and American Studies
Editor, “Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation”

I’m not the only one who thinks what I’m doing is cool. Good to know.

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Sugar is not my mood-altering agent of choice. Still, fun party.

More intensely cool stuff about Portland. Check it out; there are amazing photos.

I decided it would make more sense to manage my book list in my blog instead of separate pages. Maybe I’ll comment on books as I finish them.

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Got some new looks in the house.

This makes me really want to go back to Portland…

Also, scary stuff is happening Removing the right to trial is not something that should happen lightly, especially when the benefits are so dubious. Search warrants are a good idea.

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Apparently the Google Maps thingy I set up doesn’t play nicely with Windows. I changed it so the Google key points to the permalink instead of the index page. It might help.

Update: the Google Maps problem is probably that you’re visiting www.philisha.net instead of philisha.net. Look closely. Is this site called “www.philisha.net” in any place? No… it is not. It is called philisha.net, and that is what you are supposed to use. (You could blame me for setting it up so they both point to the same place, but that would be silly. Anyway, they don’t any more.) Thank you.

Alisha got me the first season of Macgyver on DVD! I’m not normally one to watch any television, but Macgyver is pretty much the best. As a child I revered him as a great role model, and even though many years have passed, I still hold his amazing skills in high regard.

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Hey everyone: what do you call it when a Ruby hacker wears a Perl shirt?

Ancestor veneration.

Oh man, I crack myself up some times.

I really wish I had a hi-resolution version of this

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The last time I contributed to a Free Software project it was pretty trivial. This time it’s nothing to get too excited about, but it’s a contribution with actual code content. I added inline commenting like I had on my old blog system, and it seems to work pretty well. It was just a quick lunch-break hack, but that’s just because Rails makes things so easy.

Also, I reverted back to the default theme when I got the latest version of Typo. I equate using the default theme with an acceptance of defeat; I must have something custom that truly exhibits my mad skills. (Right.) I’ve decided my next design will step away from the whole cloud thing, but am still seeking inspiration.

Let me know what you think of the new comments system. I was having trouble with using it in The Worst Browser, but I think that was actually the Google Maps code. Whatever.

In closing, the Firefox 1.1 Alpha is really fast. I’ve temporarily switched back from Galeon, and we’ll see how it goes. No crashes yet.

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Just saw War of the Worlds. Too many Half-life 2 flashbacks; make it stop! (Complete with a Father-Grigori-esque character.) I would sum it up as a good telling of a poor story. H.G. Wells is depressing. I feel like I should go read Perelandra to cleanse my mind.

Planet Zacchaeus now is hooked up to my custom La Mirada Dollar Theatre feed. The idea is that there are a bunch of movies I’ve been putting off seeing until they Dollar Theatre, but it is really easy to not notice when they start showing there and miss them entirely.

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SATAN, n. One of the Creator’s lamentable mistakes, repented in sackcloth and ashes. Being instated as an archangel, Satan made himself multifariously objectionable and was finally expelled from Heaven. Halfway in his descent he paused, bent his head in thought a moment and at last went back. “There is one favor that I should like to ask,” said he.

“Name it.”

“Man, I understand, is about to be created. He will need laws.”

“What, wretch! you his appointed adversary, charged from the dawn of eternity with hatred of his soul—you ask for the right to make his laws?”

“Pardon; what I have to ask is that he be permitted to make them himself.”

It was so ordered.

—The Devil’s Dictionary

Blind Guardian is fairly cool.

And Wikimedia has some great stuff by Gustave Doré.

I recently thought to myself “This is the coolest thing since Zork 404,” but I can’t remember what it was about which I had thought that. I’m not entirely sure if the sentence structure on that last one is correct, but I’m going with it.

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