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Sat, Sep. 26th, 2009, 09:03 pm
A timely link
The blog "Davar Acher" has an interesting review of Tolkien's translation of Jonah. The megillah of Jonah, of course, is one of the main portions of the Yom Kippur liturgy. I recommend this review, which ends most powerfully with a discussion of the book's final verse: These people are stupid and ignorant and evil and despised, yet even they would have been forgiven had they only repented. What’s stopping you?
Wed, Sep. 9th, 2009, 10:04 pm
A link.
Sun, May. 17th, 2009, 09:02 am
Quick link
Jeffrey Goldberg has an excellent op-ed piece in today's Times explaining how the concept of Amalek applies to the threat posed by Iran.
Tue, Oct. 28th, 2008, 09:12 am
Interesting...
Barney Frank's new TV ads are wonderful. And, via ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) sethg_prime comes this brilliant analysis of... oh, heck, just watch it; it's only a minute long.
Thu, Oct. 23rd, 2008, 05:08 pm
Cool
Is Frank Rich insinuating what I think he's insinuating? Scary. In the Arts section, a cappella gets some respect. In Friday's paper, Ben Brantley wrote the kind of rave review theatre producers would kill for. If anyone out there signed up for TimesPeople and wants to become TimesPeopleFriends, I'm signed up under my real name and hometown.
Fri, Sep. 26th, 2008, 10:33 am
Must-See Y.T.
toonhead_npl posted a link to a 5-minute video that made me cry. (And I'll add that although it has nothing whatsoever to do with Rosh Hashanah, it couldn't be more timely.)
Mon, Jul. 7th, 2008, 09:04 am
One of my favorite blogs, Juggling Frogs, is back after a six-month hiatus. Yay!
OK, it sounded stupid. But everyone else was linking to it, so I had to watch it. And now I'm sitting here, grinning like an idiot.
Thu, Apr. 3rd, 2008, 11:48 am
For those on my friends-list who (a) don't read rikchik's blog, (b) love typography, typology, graphic design, and/or Tufte, and (c) are interested in astronomy, I recommend this.
Today's Metropolitan Diary made me laugh out loud: particularly the one that begins "My husband and I are raising our three children in the city." (by Ora Shtull) and the last one (by Naomi Weinstein).
In a post celebrating Donald Knuth's 70th birthday (which was apparently yesterday), "Good Math, Bad Math" wrote:
TeX is more than just a typesetting system. It's a full-fledged programming language. It is absolutely turing complete - as a proof of that, a lunatic by the name of Andrew Greene wrote a complete, usable BASIC interpreter in TeX!
It's been almost twenty years since I wrote that, and here it is being cited as the extreme to which TeXhackery has been taken. I'm honored.
(Thanks to sethg_prime for the pointer, and for defending me in that forum.)
Wed, Jan. 2nd, 2008, 08:05 am
New SF blog
Encountered on the NYTimes website this morning, from the folks who brought us Lifehacker, Gizmodo, Gawker and Wonkette comes IO9, a professional blog about SF. (I'm a Lifehacker fan, myself.) Haven't read it yet but it might be of interest. ETA: Have browsed it; it looks interesting but some of the content is NSFW. And to clarify: that's "Science Fiction," not "San Francisco."
Mon, Nov. 12th, 2007, 05:10 pm
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