Ephemera

The links saved here do not in any way indicate my endorsement or approval of their content. This is merely a storehouse for my personal reference, as a convenient way to have access to things I might not otherwise want to lose access to for future reference.

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Manuscripts

• Peter Williams – Lecture exploring the use of proper names in the Gospels as more evidence they are genuine first-hand accounts
• Dirk Jongkind – Introduction to the Greek New Testament

Theological

• Jim McGuiggan – YouTube Channel
• Anthony Cross – Turning the Tide on Baptismal Indifference
• Francis Chan – Is baptism required to be saved?

Apologetics

• Searching for a King
• Jim Tour: Faith and Science at August Apologetics
• From James Tour’s An Open Letter to My Colleagues: “We synthetic chemists should state the obvious. The appearance of life on earth is a mystery. We are nowhere near solving this problem. The proposals offered thus far to explain life’s origin make no scientific sense… Life should not exist anywhere in our universe.”
• The universe should not exist according to physicists at CERN, who have made the most precise measurement ever of antiprotons

General Christian Interests

• Crossway Infographic: The What, When, Why, and How of Bible Reading

History

• Krakatoa’s explosion produced a sound wave that circled the earth four times
• Baking Bread (Panis Quadratus) with the Romans
• Newly discovered 3,500-year-old Minoan sealstone is amazingly intricate
• Location of Naboth’s vineyard possibly discovered
• The Workshop of Phidias. Phidias was the sculpter of the idol of Zeus at Olympus – one of the seven wonders of the world in its time
• Pillar “saints” and Athenian temple ruins
• From Biblical Archaeology Society: The Arch of Titus’s Menorah Panel in Color

Tech

• Twitter blog entry analyzing they highlights found in use when they recently rolled out an increase in the number of characters allowed per tweet to a small segment of its users

Development/Design Resources

• New IBM Plex font family released and free to use
• Great little article about font choices for displaying data: Fonts for Complex Data
• Apple TV screensavers for Mac

Music Resources

• Download Roland TR-707 sound samples

Miscellaneous

• Classic Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade videos: • 1983 • 1984 • 1985 • 1986 • 1987 • 1988 • 1989 • 1990 • 1991 (part1) • 1991 (part2) • 1992 • 1993

• Woz talks about designing Apple’s 5.25” floppy drive
• Discovered Popol Vue, a 70’s German ambient band, this week from a Werner Herzog documentary. Some great work music.
• The Crash at Crush, Texas
• The Mona Lisa being unpacked at the end of WWII
• Murder map of medieval London