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Book: Nothing in my hand I bring”.
After a week of World Youth Day adventures taking over Sydney, it seemed high time that I read the latest Matthias release on the subject of Catholicism. One of my favourite pilgrims was struck by the way that people were protesting beside the walk - “Jesus is the only [...]

I might have left the promotion too late, but if you’d like to spend the financial year reading through war and peace in just a chapter (or so) per day, you can join in over at matt’s blog.

movie: The Dark Knight
It was a really good movie: worthy of all the hype, though not the best movie ever made. Heath Ledger’s performance, too, was really good - he indeed disappears into the character. I don’t think it is going to result in an Oscar, but that probably doesn’t matter in the scheme of [...]

[freelance switch] Hi-tech meets lo-tech in this how-to for a moleskine as HDD case.

Branding the Youth in the Totalitarian State - when you’re trying to control the hearts and minds of a people, it stretches even to the way that you present your children’s books, and their schooling. Some examples of how this was put into practice last century.

Detailed video from the 1970s explaining how a Polaroid camera works. We’ve come a long way, downhill, in terms of what level of technical detail it’s reasonable to put into a video about photography.

[haibane] Lego Stephen Hawking with transforming chair!

Some questions to ask before you send that email

Keep your focus at work

Customise your macbook for offline note-taking with blackboard paint. Warning: don’t try this at home.