Archive for May, 2008
Lorem ipsum
Those who have ever done publishing will be familiar with Lorem Ipsum. For those who don’t know, it’s just a long Latin text that’s used in publishing, so designers can do layouts before anything’s actually been written. That’s the ground for this observation: Rich Boy’s “Throw Some D’s” is the Lorem Ipsum of rap. At [...]
Mulberry: Tribute to the Greatest E-mail Program of All Time
For years I have used and loved Mulberry, perhaps the best e-mail client in existence. So I was greatly saddened to hear that Cyrusoft, the company behind Mulberry, declared bankruptcy a year ago. [more (full article)] I was just as much shocked as dismayed. Mulberry was hawked by so many colleges that I assumed its [...]
One Paragraph Blog: Make it Long and Boring
Sometimes, hard-to-read, abstruse articles are informative, but it is a fallacy to think that in order to make an informative article, you need to make it long and boring. [originally written forever ago]
The Tower of Babel, Part One
There are many objections to Christianity. Some of the most well-known: Why should there be a hell? Why should bad things (hell, sickness, etc.) happen to people who are good? While many people have raised and tried to answer these objections, let’s take this in a bit of a different direction. If these are legitimate [...]