Monthly Archives: October 2007

Science fiction/fantasy author quote of the day, from Neil Gaiman, author of Neverwhere and American Gods: You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other … Continue reading →

The daily mortar attacks from Gaza into Israel rarely make the news. You might not have heard about today’s attack: Two Palestinian armed groups said Sunday they launched four homemade rockets from northern Gaza Strip at the southern Israeli town … Continue reading →

An etymology lesson from a philologist: I don’t recall my English professors ever looking like this. My wife discovered Marina’s video lessons and made me watch some of them. If all English teachers looked like this, there would be no … Continue reading →

From an interview with newspaper editor Flemming Rose, Revisiting the Danish Cartoon Crisis But what really bothers me today—and this hasn’t been reported very widely—is that right after the cartoon crisis, the Organization of the Islamic Conference at the United … Continue reading →

Science fiction author Robert A. Heinlein quotes for the day: Always listen to experts. They’ll tell you what can’t be done, and why. Then do it. and Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this … Continue reading →

Japan orbited the moon today: Japan’s Kaguya probe slid into lunar orbit late Wednesday after a circuitous 20-day trek from Earth to begin more than a dozen science investigations designed to gain insights about the moon’s history. Send to Kindle

Email today from Barnes and Noble letting me know they have corrected the spelling of my name on their website for my book, The Bible’s Most Fascinating People. I checked, and the spelling correction has already appeared, though they still … Continue reading →

Happy birthday to the Space Age. 50 years ago today Sputnik became the first artificial satellite. Send to Kindle

Christian Book Distributors has let me know that they’re fixing my name on their website for my book. Amazon fixed the problem on their site yesterday. So I’m only waiting on Barnes and Noble now. Send to Kindle

Interesting article from the British center-left magazine, Prospect: The question of what to do in Iraq today must be separated from the decision to topple Saddam Hussein four and a half years ago. That decision is a matter for historians. … Continue reading →