Fire and Knowledge

Yahoo! has finally embraced web standards!

Adobe introduces the new Digital Negative (DNG) Format. I think this will be a helpful step as there are simply too many RAW formats right now. I hope manufacturers adopt this–at least as an option to select in-camera.

“But the church—his church—for many years now has been regaled, both in its seminary classrooms and from multitudes of its pulpits, with subbiblical portrayals of what the true gospel of God is. I refer to the Pelagian, semi-Pelagian, semi-semi-Pelagian, Arminian, apostate, and name-it-claim-it ‘gospels’ which abound on every hand. To al these false ‘gospels’ the Reformed faith is the only antidote.”
-Robert Reymond, A New Systematic Theology of the Christian Faith, xx-xxi

Checkboxes vs. Radio Buttons (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)

Good guidelines.

Sidenote: His site looks 10 years old. It’s bad. Oh, and you’ll have to put your fonts down a notch to not make your eyes feel you are reading a large-print book. But, alas, it has been said before. One day his mind will be enlightened.

“…People are most like God the Maker when they create a world [with] significant characters out of their imagination. The very existence of literature, then, even when it is abused, is a powerful apology [= defense] for the Christian doctrine of humanity and its creation in the image of God.”
-Donald T. Williams, “Christian Poetics, Past and Present” in The Christian Imagination (ed. Leland Ryken)

Introduction

I had more quotes from this three hundred and seventy page book than other books of triple the length.  Why?  Because Charles Dickens is a masterful author, spinning tales out of history that results in a gold-woven masterpiece.  His stories are made up of individual words that come together for a magnificent whole.  It seems as if every word was agonized over, making sure it fits in its proper place.  we are the beneficiaries of those labors, and we are grateful for them.

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“Literature takes reality and human experience as its starting point, transforms it by means of the imagination, and sends readers back to life with renewed understanding of it and zest for it because of their excursions into a purely imaginary realm.”
-Leland Ryken, “Thinking Christianly About Literature” in in The Christian Imagination

Or: What happened to one of the best Reformed stores (Discerning Reader) out there? Man, times change.

…and I can’t help but wonder if this has something to do with those “New Perspective on Paul” books in his store.

[from Aaron]