Sunday, December 31, 2006

Thank God for the Language Police

Language is powerful. Without its mediating role, we would be unable to grasp reality. Did you know there was a Language Police out there? Someone needed to do it. Words are misused, overused and a-bused here in the Information Age. Lake Superior State University has been compiling a list of banned words worn slick with overuse for the past thirty years. I think the official list comes out tomorrow. You can read about it here as well.

Friday, December 22, 2006

Here's What I Want For Christmas...


I want the Giant Swiss Army Knife. Just think of the jams MacGyver could have gotten out of with this beast. You can read more abou tthe Giant below or read the full story here.

Just as you can't be too rich or too thin, I'd always thought, so you can't have too many tools on your Swiss Army knife - but that was before I took delivery of the new Giant Swiss Army knife. Grotesque, if superbly engineered, the Giant weighs nearly a kilogram and features 85 devices in all. Unload this mother into the plastic tray as you walk through security at Heathrow and just see what happens.

The Giant is supposed to feature every blade that has ever been incorporated into Swiss Army knives as made by Wenger, one of the two firms that make them . "We've sold 20 to retailers so far, and we can't get them in fast enough," says Garry Woodhouse of Whitby and Co, sole importer of Wenger knives into Britain. "They're assembled by hand in Switzerland, and I'm told that the man doing it is working his fingers to the bone."

Thursday, December 07, 2006

From Cross to Crescent

I just found this at Touchstone's Mere Comments blog. I just can't help but think that the people who sold the church building to the Islamic association must not have any sense of church history--in addition to possessing a poor theology.