Happy new year — just think of all the lovely PSB review submissions you could spend January reading. Or not. Luckily, I've read them for you. And there are quite a number of them. Ofcom received some 300 submissions in December, in response to the regulator's Public Service Broadcasting Review ph...

I first heard of Pepper Lunch over at Lanatir's. I was wondering what was the excitement about until I saw this place right after I got down from the escalator. They're located opposite J Co. We checked at the board from outside but since we were in a hurry we didn't eat there until our next trip to...

Last night while watching the newest dancing show on television (which I thought was pretty horrible by the way!  Did anyone else catch it?), the one that has contestants from all over the world, my four year old turned to me and asked, "But where is India?".  My next thought was...

To start 2009 with a tidy desk, I wish to put some order in the posts about particle physics I wrote in 2008. By collecting a few links here, I save from oblivion the most meaningful of them -or at least I make them just a bit more accessible. In due time, I will update the “physics made easy&...

Preface: A Guide to Transformative Information Apocalypse As spoken by the all-knowing and all-giving Wikipedia the Magnificent, and transmitted through INFOTRAMP.com: “In the Zohar is written, ‘There exists no circle in the world which is not made from within a single point which is loc...

The Drama of Scripture: The King and his Kingdom This is the text of a talk I will give this evening at 'church'. This is the first in a series based on a brilliant book by Mike Goheen and Craig Bartholomew The Drama of Scripture. Tonight we will look at the King and the creation of his Kingdom - th...

I just came across this old post of mine (circa 2005) and wanted to republish as I've been thinking quite a bit recently about interbeing: the state of connectedness and interdependence of all phenomena. I'm finding that I now have a deeper understanding of what I wrote three years ago... fu...

Before I had a son, I knew a small number of (mostly) homeschoolers who recommended the Tin-Tin books for boys, especially for boys who were reluctant readers.I never said anything to them, but I was secretly dismayed in the depths of my cultural elitist soul. After all, Tin-tin was merely a glorifi...

It’s time to get excited. It’s also a time to be very, very afraid.   It’s exciting because we are three weeks away from the start of a brand new season of Lost, which is the happiest time of the year (aside from Christmastime and NCAA Tournament time, of course). But it’s also a scary time...

Start Date: December 13 2008 End Date: December 31 Theory of Lost Diclaimer: This entire story was inspired by a few older theories AND stuff iv read in the forums, if you recognize your work, this line is your THANK YOU and acknoledgement. By Dogma9 Part 1: Jacobs Story The Black rock is on its ill...