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On Naboth
That’s Naboth the Jezreelite from the reading for today’s Mass in the Usus Recentior. Here are some links:
- St Ambrose of Milan, On Naboth
- an article in 30 Days, quite good at times
- a collection of links from The Text This Week
- the old Haydock commentary
Filed under Catholic
Sean Powers, historian
Sean Powers, a new guy at our local public radio station WILL, has been digging through the station archives and posting all sorts of cool things to their facebook page. That’s where I found Ebert’s interview of Clarke. (No, I don’t support WILL – every time some excellence in their local broadcasting tempts me to give them money, I’m also ticked off by some partisan nonsense from the national folks at NPR.)
Filed under History
Ebert & Clarke on 2001
Here’s Roger Ebert’s interview of Arthur C. Clarke in 1997 as part of Cyberfest ’97 at the University of Illinois. Cripes – that’s 15 years ago already. Note that the interview was conducted by way of a now-primitive AT&T videophone, the sort of advanced technology featured in 2001.
Filed under Movies, Technology
The palace of memory
Here’s a TED talk on memory that reaches back to the basic memory techniques of antiquity: Joshua Foer: Feats of memory anyone can do.
Filed under Learning
Mast Brothers Chocolate chocolate done right by hipster…
Mast Brothers Chocolate: chocolate done right by hipster dudes with 1890s beards in Brooklyn:
May 2, 2012 · 10:38 pm
I’m trying out the p2 theme might be…
I’m trying out the p2 theme – might be nice for work.
May 2, 2012 · 10:15 pm
