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.
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
History
- Livius: Articles on ancient 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
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
Miscellaneous
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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
- Popol Vue: Als Lebten Die Engel Auf Erden
- The Crash at Crush, Texas
- The Mona Lisa being unpacked at the end of WWII
- Murder map of medieval London
- Fulltone Layla Coda