From the daily archives:

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

45th Biblical Studies Carnival is up

September 1, 2009

And congratulations to Mike Kok for a well-themed park – go jump on board his roller coaster

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Possibly the best phobia in the world

September 1, 2009

aibohphobia – an irrational fear of palindromes

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New New International Version of the “words” of God?

September 1, 2009

Peter Kirk and Rick Mansfield are among those noting the next new NIV. Apparently at the moment they intend just to call it the NIV – won’t that get confusing, especially in citations?
I’m a bit confused about the bits in the press release that say:

he global board of Biblica today announced its intention to update [...]

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Top 50 dodgy biblioblog stats

September 1, 2009

For those who like that sort of thing (mainly Jim West who wants something to crow about) the August Biblioblog Top 50 has been posted.. I remain sceptical – not least because while my ranking and traffic has fallen there, my Wordpress stats and Google analytics tell me it’s significantly up on last month. So, [...]

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Star Trekking across the universe (but in Lego)

September 1, 2009

For some bizarre reason, I woke up this morning with the Firm’s song in my head. So I thought I’d share. Here’s a Lego version.

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