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High Tech

Links round-up

November 28, 2010

Trying to clear a bottleneck of stories I haven’t posted on. Mea maxima culpa. Heidi Campbell ‘Can an online community be a church ? IRS says “No”!‘, When Religion Meets New Media (24/8/10) Joshua M. Z. Stanton ‘Cyber Dialogue: The Future of Inter-Religious Engagement‘, Patheos (6/9/10) Eli Yishai ‘Shas minister shuts down online payments on [...]

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Good morning, LaserMonks! Greetings and peace!

September 10, 2010

Now that I have your attention: it’s been almost a year but I can now finally call myself a contributor. I’ll eventually have something current to say but I thought I’d first clear some backlog – it’s just too hard to pass up an opportunity to write those two words  in the same sentence. Monks [...]

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I’d have gone for jainism.wikia.com

December 7, 2009

The Institute of Jainology has launched their Jainpedia project: an online depository of digitised Jain texts from collections around the world. Helmed mainly by British Jains, the project aims to incorporate the numerous manuscripts held in British institutions, as well as those remaining in India. Primarily targeted at academics, Jainpedia also hopes to make itself [...]

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The Glowstick Testament

November 16, 2009

The Glo Bible aims to update scripture for the iPhone generation (okay, I just decided that there’s an ‘iPhone generation’). This DVD-ROM features HD videos, maps and ‘virtual tours’ of 1st century Jerusalem and is suspiciously reminiscent of creator Nelson Saba’s iLumina (2002). Odiously, this DVD-ROM isn’t something you actually ‘buy’ for the US$90 price [...]

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Religion and airport scanners

October 26, 2009

A bit of a weird round-up this time, but airport security stories have been turning up on the religion blogs lately. The first story concerns a Canadian Roman Catholic bishop who was discovered with sexual images of young children on his laptop hard-drive by airport security. Tmatt at GetReligion asked “What made them search a [...]

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Smallest. Bible. Ever.

December 29, 2007

FINALLY. Jeez, they took their time. Israeli scientists have written out the Hebrew Bible on a silicon chip smaller than a pinhead. The SMH reports that it’s the Old Testament, but I wonder if they just misunderstand the difference between a Torah and a Tanakh. They DO provide the word count – 308,428 – and [...]

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