October 7, 2005

A transmogrified ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ - Yahoo! News: “And now for the good news: The Complete Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson (Andrews McMeel, $150) went on sale this week. It’s three volumes, weighs 23 pounds and has every single cartoon in the series.”

Good grief. What a superb value. I love books that make me laugh.

Reader: “Google Reader ”

Wow. Yet another fabulous web-based application from Google. I’m in love.

Uploading my 90-item OPML file felt too slow.

Neat UI concept: the “lens”.

A wholesome reality shines beyond the dark conspiracy - Comment - Times Online: “A wholesome reality shines beyond the dark conspiracy
By Ruth Gledhill
Two books suggest that Opus Dei is much less lurid than its image in bestselling potboilers
OPUS DEI has enjoyed an avalanche of lurid publicity in the past year or so.

Thanks largely to The Da Vinci Code, the potboiler by Dan Brown that has sold more than 7 million copies in the UK, the worthy and respectably dull Roman Catholic organisation has found itself accused of dark plots, of harbouring murderous albino monks, of wallowing in masochistic mortifications and more besides.

So strident has the popular attention been that the Vatican felt it had to appoint a cardinal to rebut the book’s inaccuracies — Opus Dei has no monks, albino or otherwise — and many groups have dedicated websites to the topic - see for example, www.life4seekers.co.uk/TheDaVinciCode-resources.htm

Amid the furore, Opus Dei’s spokesman, Jack Valero, seems slightly bemused as he weighs up the suggestion that the media fuss might have done the movement a favour by attracting new recruits.

High time, then, for a book to bring this personal prelature of the Pope, founded in Spain in the 1920s by Josemar�a Escriv�, into the light of day. And as chance would have it, we now have two, published in the space of a few weeks: What is Opus Dei? by Noam Friedlander (Conspiracy Books �8.99) and Opus Dei: Secrets and Power Inside the Catholic Church, by the Vatican correspondent John Allen (Penguin, �20).”

2, 4, 6, 8
who do we appreciate?
OPUS DEI! OPUS DEI!

A transmogrified ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ - Yahoo! News: “And now for the good news: The Complete Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson (Andrews McMeel, $150) went on sale this week. It’s three volumes, weighs 23 pounds and has every single cartoon in the series.”

Good grief. What a superb value. I love books that make me laugh.

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Posted by wfzimmerman to What’s New for Book-Lovers at 10/07/2005 05:28:48 PM

Reader: “Google Reader “

Wow. Yet another fabulous web-based application from Google. I’m in love.

Uploading my 90-item OPML file felt too slow.

Kelsey’s having some trouble adding feeds. Seems like there may be some redirects not working.

Neat UI concept: the “lens”.

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Posted by wfzimmerman to Tech Fun at 10/07/2005 05:00:45 PM

Reader: “Google Reader ”

Wow. Yet another fabulous web-based application from Google. I’m in love.

Uploading my 90-item OPML file felt too slow.

Neat UI concept: the “lens”.

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Posted by wfzimmerman to Tech Fun at 10/07/2005 05:00:45 PM

/blockquote>A wholesome reality shines beyond the dark conspiracy - Comment - Times Online: “A wholesome reality shines beyond the dark conspiracy
By Ruth Gledhill
Two books suggest that Opus Dei is much less lurid than its image in bestselling potboilers
OPUS DEI has enjoyed an avalanche of lurid publicity in the past year or so.

Thanks largely to The Da Vinci Code, the potboiler by Dan Brown that has sold more than 7 million copies in the UK, the worthy and respectably dull Roman Catholic organisation has found itself accused of dark plots, of harbouring murderous albino monks, of wallowing in masochistic mortifications and more besides.

So strident has the popular attention been that the Vatican felt it had to appoint a cardinal to rebut the book’s inaccuracies — Opus Dei has no monks, albino or otherwise — and many groups have dedicated websites to the topic - see for example, www.life4seekers.co.uk/TheDaVinciCode-resources.htm

Amid the furore, Opus Dei’s spokesman, Jack Valero, seems slightly bemused as he weighs up the suggestion that the media fuss might have done the movement a favour by attracting new recruits.

High time, then, for a book to bring this personal prelature of the Pope, founded in Spain in the 1920s by Josemar�a Escriv�, into the light of day. And as chance would have it, we now have two, published in the space of a few weeks: What is Opus Dei? by Noam Friedlander (Conspiracy Books �8.99) and Opus Dei: Secrets and Power Inside the Catholic Church, by the Vatican correspondent John Allen (Penguin, �20).”

2, 4, 6, 8
who do we appreciate?
OPUS DEI! OPUS DEI!

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Posted by wfzimmerman to The Solomon Key and Beyond: Dan Brown News at 10/07/2005 03:09:47 PM

Dennis Silverman’s Tips for Using Equation Editor

Equation Editor Tips & Tricks at MathType site

Tutorials at MathType site.

Equation Editor is a “lite version” of MathType, the full-featured math editor that Microsoft recommends.

Is ‘Lost’ a literal enigma? - Yahoo! News: “Literary references have been sprinkled throughout the mysteries of Lost: In an episode last season, the character Sawyer was reading Watership Down by Richard Adams, the story of rabbits searching for a safe place in a threatening world. At another point, he read Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time, about time travel.
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Look for another literary reference - and possibly another clue to the island’s secret - on tonight’s Lost (ABC, 9 ET/PT).

At one point, someone will pick up a copy of the novel The Third Policeman by the late Irish writer Flann O’Brien. The cover will be seen for about a second, ABC confirms”

Somehow, I don’t think books are going to wind up being that important to the show …

King’s ‘Colorado Kid’: You decide - Yahoo! News: “Stephen King is so hot that an advance copy of his latest novel, The Colorado Kid, was stolen and sold for $1,623 on eBay.
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Aw, c’mon, it’s good, but not that good.

King wrote The Colorado Kid for Hard Case Crime, which publishes old and new hard-boiled crime fiction in paperback at a far more affordable price: in this case, $5.99.”

Hard Case Crime is a great imprint. Maybe now they can afford to finally publish that last Donald Hamilton novel!