I know the live blogs can be a bit hard to follow once they’re done, so I thought a simple recap post is in order! On episode 12.03 of America’s Next Top Model, the girls get makeovers and do their first photo shoot with Nigel Barker, where they have to “light up” their faces...

Word of the release of an exciting new project from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and Thomson Reuters. From the Berkman Center Site: Researching the nature of news, and media information flows, has always faced a difficult challenge: there is so much produced by so many outlets that...

Kathleen Kenyon was recently the subject of a biography written by Miriam C. Davis.  Dame Kathleen Kenyon: Digging up the Holy Land was reviewed in Haaretz by Magen Broshi, an archaeologist and the former curator of the Shrine of the Book in Jerusalem.  His review begins: She never married...

One of the things that continually delights me about 'doing business online' is the rather more 'abundant' mindset which tends to go with it - compared with the 'scarcity' attitude so typical of 'old school', 'bricks and mortar' business where typically your competitors are 'The Enemy'. I used to wa...

How do you stay optimistic when you are surrounded by a steady drumbeat of troubling news? It's not an easy task these days, especially when you're worried about holding on to your job or your home. Yet, it is precisely during times like these that must be proactive about managing our emotio...

With so many of us facing the prospect of hunting down a new job, I thought it would make sense this week to focus on how to get the most out of your job search. First topic to tackle: the sticky question of when, if ever, to tell a prospective employer what you want to earn. Laurie Ruettimann at Pu...

I just got a Kindle 2 a couple days ago. Prior to ordering it, I was sort of skeptical of the concept of the Kindle. I didn’t really get the concept of reading a book on what essentially appeared to be an over-sized calculator. But after getting my Kindle 2 and playing around with it, I’...

Dr. David Dockery, president of Union University and leading statesman in the SBC, recently spoke at California Baptist University in their “Christ & Culture” Lecture Series.  CBU has recently provided two of Dockery’s lectures from this past week from their chapel podcast.  ...

It's coming on tax time and if you drive at all for business, you'll want to be sure to log your miles for 2009, so you can legitimately deduct the cost of driving your car from your income. For 2009, the IRS mileage allowance is as follows: 55 cents per mile for business miles driven 24 cents per m...

There's always something new at Steve Lasky's virtual Museum of Family History. Here's the March update: - “Churbn Lettland: The Destruction of the Jews of Latvia� – Very important telling of events, written in 1947 by a survivor. More material from the English... Continue reading here.......