Pretty funny list from Topless Robot (some may consider it a bit offensive). I won’t spoil it for you, but #1 involves a pregnant Snape.
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Review: Labor and the American Revolution by Philip S. Foner
Posted on June 27, 2008 by Mike F.
Philip S. Foner, Labor and the American Revolution, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1976
The American Revolution can be approached from many different angles. Some scholars write from the perspective of the leaders, the soldiers, the female population, or the slave community, each attempting to show a different perspective. Philip S. Foner, following a call by Herbert [...]
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Quotes Like This Push Me Even Closer to Marxism
Posted on June 16, 2008 by Mike F.
It is certain that high wages more frequently make labouring people miserable; they too commonly employ their spare time and cash in debauching their morals and ruining their health.
Quoted in Philip S. Foner, Labor and the American Revolution, Greenwood Press: 1976.
I’m pretty sure there are a lot of people today that believe the same thing.
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Review: Prince Caspian (part 2)
Posted on May 19, 2008 by Mike F.
So, if Prince Caspian suceeds as a movie, it surely must follow that it is a good and faithful adaptation of Lewis, right? Well, no actually. In fact, Prince Caspian is a fairly poor adaptation of the novel. There are times, as Douglas Wilson says, when the only common thread between the two are the [...]
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Review: Prince Caspian (part 1)
Posted on May 17, 2008 by Mike F.
There are two ways one could approach a movie like Prince Caspian: as a fantasy movie or as a fantasy movie based on a beloved classic novel. I’m going to try to take both of these views into account as I review this movie, but my default position will be the latter. In this post, I’ll [...]
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Free as in Beer
Posted on April 23, 2008 by Mike F.
Canon Press putting up its stuff on Google Books got me thinking about giving away content you would normally pay for. I’m not an “information deserves to be free” kind of guy, but I do have some sympathies that lean that way. I think that if you work hard on something, whether a book, movie, [...]
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On Study Bibles
Posted on April 17, 2008 by Mike F.
A lot of people in the Reformed world are pretty excited about this new ESV Study Bible that’s coming out in the fall. I’ll lay my cards on the table right now and say I’m not at all interested in this edition of the ESV, so that’s going to color a lot of what I [...]
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Canon Press Gets It
Posted on April 16, 2008 by Mike F.
It’s not very often that an old media producer shows the unique ability to Get It ™. Canon Press, who publish Douglas Wilson and Peter Leithart (to name a few), showed that they do indeed get it by putting full versions of their books on Google Books. You can read an entire book, that they [...]
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Getting Rid of Books
Posted on April 8, 2008 by Mike F.
I am, by nature, a collector. I’m not sure where I got this from, but my aversion to throwing anything away approaches a psychological disorder. Thankfully, over the past year I’ve read (and re-read) Peter Walsh’s It’s All Too Much, which has helped cure me of a lot of these tendencies. (This book, BTW, is [...]
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iPhone SDK and Bible Software
Posted on March 7, 2008 by Mike F.
After Apple announced the iPhone SDK, the wheels in my head started whirling. While there are some pretty good Bible web apps for the iPhone (like the ESV, NAB and NET Bibles), a dedicated app that you could take with you anywhere would be pretty cool. As it is, anyone with a Touch [...]
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