As always these are good things from the last week I haven’t hitherto mentioned, but hope you will enjoy as much as I did.
I was struck by this question from Seth Godin about software. I’m not sure all his examples fall into the same category, but I wonder what other people’s favourite examples might be.
Mark Goodacre has a gift for spotting details in a text. He has a good post exemplifying this on Junia , and why Paul should probably be understood to say Junia is an outstanding apostle. (And yes, she’s a she).
I know we’ve done the sexism in the blogosphere to death, but one of the best posts came from Judy Redman as the kerfuffle died down and attention moved elsewhere.
Whenever people see words in a dead foreign language they tend to contract lexiconitis, and start imagining words come in neat little wrapped up packets of meaning. Rick Brannan illustrates why this is a bad thing in a very good post on ἐπιθυμέω (to passionately desire – or thereabouts) and its translations.
John Hobbins posted what he called 10 astounding facts and figures which he labelled a reality check. There are some genuinely fascinating ones in there, and some that are perhaps a little less astounding.
I enjoyed Loren Rosson’s review of Inglourious Basterds. I’m still in two minds about whether to wait for the DVD. Any film over 2½ hours long needs to really make me want to see it, but Loren’s nearly persuaded me.
Todd Bolen’s Bible Places Blog had a good century old quotation clarifying the pure prejudiced Protestant sentimentality that is the only justification of the Garden Tomb.
The Beaker Folk have invented the most wonderful Science v. Religion game – “For example, if the Science player plays the “Spanish Inquisition” card, the Religion team might play the “Darwinian eugenics” card.”
David Green, plunged into the deep end of a parish interregnum, wonders about numbers, and characterises a lot of clergy boasts about their church / congregation / numbers of services etc as “willy-waving”.
I’ll be honest, I’d never heard of Robert Yarbrough, but having read Matt’s interview with him, I was rather impressed with the down to earth blend of faith and scholarship.
Tom Harris passed on a wonderful tongue-twister from Viz. On a more serious note he demonstrated why companies ought to take blogs seriously as a measure of customer satisfaction. I wonder how many customers his post will cost Churchill insurance.
It’s not just blogs which are dangerous. Eddie had a great story of the burglar who logged on to Facebook in the house where he was committing his nefarious deeds. Big oops.
Crispian Jago has the skinny on how the Daily Mail writes its scary science stories with a new computer algorithm and simple interface.
And while were engaging with the most acceptable sport of Mail-bashing, let’s finish with an excellent piece from Paul Canning on the weird symbiosis between the Mail and the US right.
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