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Giving Thanks on Thanksgiving, Love Actually Edition
Many things to give thanks for this year. Among them, the fact that no one at dinner even came close to answering the phone or checking messages. That alone made it feel like a sacred time. Favorite...
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My Disappointment for the Day: News, Steve Jobs, and Plato
Yesterday started out nicely enough. On deck yesterday in my course on Christianity and Media: Plato’s discussions of the arts in The Republic (books 2, 3 and 10) and the First Amendment to the U.S....
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Ooops, I Did It Again! I’ll Never Get SEO Right…
I was just reading some advice on how to increase web traffic and make sure your blog gets noticed on search engines. I’ve been feeling guilty that now that I’m no longer Freshly Pressed, my little old...
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Google Doodles, Easter, and Cesar Chavez: Sometimes It’s About Competing Goods
(Warning: this is a long one. I just couldn’t get it in a short post. But the short version is that the argument that Google is anti-Christian doesn’t hold up in the light of reasonable moral analysis....
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Ends, Beginnings, and All Along the Ways: Invocation for Commencement
Last weekend was graduation here at Saint Joseph’s University. I was honored to be asked to give the invocation prayer at the undergraduate commencement ceremony on May 11. All went well, as far as...
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Binge Watching Is Changing Us: Recognizing the Power of Imagination
It may not be one of the great novels of all time, but one of my favorite reading experiences was Umberto Eco’s Name of the Rose. Genre wise, it is a historical-fiction whodunit set in a medieval...
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Recommended Posts on Power, Culture, and Privacy
Lots of talk about privacy lately. Much of it has been spurred by the completely unsurprising revelations about NSA spying. But we were primed for that by the discussion surrounding Facebook Home and...
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(Really?) Free The Pictures – Review with PSA
Brian S. Hall has a overview of free cloud picture services at ReadWrite. Interestingly, before he gets to the review itself, he notes Before diving into the features of the various services, it should...
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