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Books & Culture is the best magazine I have ever read. It's published by Christianity Today International, which is headquartered a ...

In high school, I heard a translation of a sonnet attributed to Michelangelo. It was in a video about the Renaissance artists. I went up to ...

Lileks once wrote of attending a performance of the musical Annie: "That 'Hard-Knock Life' tune is very odd. (Wonder how many...

I've been whiling away many a free hour playing around with the guitar. I come home from work, do a few household chores, and play for a...

I thought the list below was about Star Trek when I first heard it. It comes from a recent episode of The Dollhouse. The scene begins with...

It was time to renew my driver's license. Luckily, I didn't have to retake the written test; just had to look into the black box and...

Earth-identical gravity and atmosphere on other planets one ecosystem for a whole planet human-alien cross-breeding without scientific inter...

When you want to open a new document in Word 2007, you have to tell it whether you want a new document or a new blog post. I wanted to find ...

I spent a good chunk of my free time over the last couple weeks re-re-re-learning some basic chords on the guitar so that I could perform at...

HT: Kouya Chronicle . I do not demean the first law. It is true. God does love you and has a wonderful plan for your life. His definition of...

An accurate description of my predicament, from a Lileks screed : "I love the era of fine hats, but I know I would have looked like som...

Call center guidelines: Assume the caller is an idiot Assume that the caller's problem isn't AT&T's problem Look for the qui...

David Ker posted the first five verses of John in Nyungwe and asked if his readers could figure out any of the words. Here are the verses a...