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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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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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Social Media, the Boston Marathon Bombings, and Believing Your Own Press
It has been a rough few days for folks in Boston and throughout the United States in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings. My thoughts and prayers go out to all who are affected by the tragedy. As...
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Putting the Horse Before the Cart: Music Technology and John Hampton Edition
I’m a big fan of the recording magazine Tape Op. It has been around about a decade and is all about DIY music. They were maker before maker was cool. (Plus, the physical mag is beautiful and U.S....
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Coins to Tunes
As a six year old, one of my favorite things about visiting my grandparents in their small, southern Illinois town was the thrill of splitting the pile of change from my grandfather’s piggy bank with...
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This Can’t End Well: 3D-Printed Gun in Israeli Parliament
Today, Israeli journalists snuck a functional 3D-printed gun into an address by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset. Twice. So maker culture becomes unmaker culture?
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Avoiding the Near Occasions of Sin
It is September and school is back in session. I took a couple months off this summer from blogging and following the tech news. It can be so easy to get so wrapped up in the chase—keeping on top of...
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