My Wandering Wiki: MultiMarkdown “Fletcher Penney’s MultiMarkdown is a wonderful script that can convert Markdown formatted text into HTML, LaTeX and even RTF. In fact, since it converts to valid XHTML first and then applies XSLT parsing to convert into … Continue reading
Going beyond God [Salon] Historian and former nun Karen Armstrong has a new book out titled The Great Transformation. Further, she says the afterlife is a “red herring,” hating religion is a pathology and that many Westerners cling to infantile … Continue reading
We had a three day weekend and spent it doing mostly family stuff. The biggest news, or at least the news that will have an effect beyond the weekend is that the cat population is now equal to ’1′ again. … Continue reading
The last Monday in May is Memorial Day in the U.S. This seems to happen about the same time every year…
Physicians and Surgeons for Scientific Integrity list of physicians and surgeons who dissent from darwinism. ai, yi, yi. via eliot (tags: science darwin medicine)
AskOxford: Ask the Experts via Backup Brain (tags: reference language grammar english) Timeline of Trends and Events (1750 to 2100) Social, political, economic, cultural, historical, and technological timelines of the world from 1750 to 2100 in one view. via kottke … Continue reading
My lovely wife has an idea for a bumper sticker: 2008… We’re the Deciders!
Another of the ‘Manila Mafia’ has pitched his tent off the reservation. Craig has moved Booknotes to Weblogger.com. [via garret] Oh, and there’s one more thing… Craig is 55 today! Happy Birthday, Craig! Not bad at all.
Our own Kevin Murphy (where do you get this ‘our’ stuff?) is one of the “founding bloggers of Revise and Dissent, a recently launched group effort by younger historians and historians-to-be over at the History News Network.” Congrats, Kevin. I’m … Continue reading
May 25th is Towel Day :: A tribute to Douglas Adams (1952-2001). [via garret]
