I can barely contain my glee (or whatever the no doubt more apt German/Yiddish word is) that on the day crap like this is written, I get a call from Foyles telling me my copy of Fat: An Appreciation of a Misunderstood Ingredient, with Recipes is ready to collect. Butter is not the root of all evil. ...

"Sixty-two percent of New Hampshire adults identified themselves as Christians last year, the American Religious Identification Survey for 2008 reported. This is a 23 percent decline from 1990, when 85 percent of adults called themselves Roman Catholics, mainline Protestants and other Christians...N...

I have been working hard on a new creation as I try to satisfy all my interests with their own websites and blogs. This is one I am really happy with so far: Florence Wine Merchants I plan to devote......

Hello All, now that I have a d700/w grip virticals just arent cutting it anymore (and woud barely with my 70-300mm). I was looking at this tripod and was wondering would this be enough to suppor my d......

Coming out on DVD are two separate compilations of old Hanna-Barbera and Looney Tunes cartoons----one set for the 1960s, the other for the 1970s. Given the obscurity/unlikelihood of some of the shows winding up on their own DVD set (Frankenstein Jr. and the Impossibles, (ping-ping-piiiing) Ricochet ...

Bob Costas had Will Leitch from Deadspin on his show to argue with Buzz Bissinger—sports journalist, author, and really, really pissed off about the Internet. This is a beautiful, amazing, clash of media cultures. No embed, gotta go to Deadspin to watch. Costas and Bissinger are arguing that s...

"Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering,for He who promised is faithful."Hebrews 10: 23 Not one of us has the power to save or justify himself. Each one of us is completely dependent on God's mercy and grace. It is imperative that we trust in the God Who wants to save us (1 Tim...

Yesterday while at ICCC, I had a chance to talk with Steve McIntyre at length about the state of the Climate Audit server. As many of you know, Climate Audit failed a couple of weeks ago and was down for almost 3 days due to a hard drive failure. Even with RAID1, it didn't prevent [...]...

A Message from Her Majesty The Queen, Head of the Commonwealth This year the Commonwealth commemorates its foundation sixty years ago. The London Declaration of 1949 was the start of a new era in which our member countries committed themselves to work together, in partnership and as equals, towards ...

Dr. Stephen W. Christian, Senior Pastor and Bishop, shares the the eighth installment of the message, “Jesus in Every Book of the Bible” on Sunday, March 8, 2009. John 5:39 (New Living Translation) You search the Scriptures because you believe they give you eternal life. But the Scriptur...