Book pointer...
For work, I'm a software engineer - and I've always admired The Art of Computer Programming by Donald Knuth. I remember looking through the first volume or two in my high school and being stumped by them and seeing them make more and more sense as I learned how to develop software. Great stuff - but not a casual read at all.

A year or so ago I stumbled across another Knuth book - Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About. This book was taken from a series of lectures at MIT in 1999 on the general subject of relations between faith and science. The Dr. Dobbs Journal site has all of the lectures still online as MP3 files or RealPlayer streams. You could have knocked me over with a feather once I stumbled into this book and the lectures. Very interesting to hear.

I was reading the Things book and stumbled into a pointer to another book that he had written. This is the book pointer that I wanted to point to today. The book is: 3:16 Bible Texts Illuminated. I've been peeking around for the last year or two to see if I could find this book anywhere - and stupidly not bothering to search online (duh!) I just ordered two copies... one to be given away. Amazon has it listed as a hard to find book (copy number one) and the publisher still has it (and the poster). Talking with the publisher was great - nice person on the other end and she did exactly what I would have expected. The first one should be home within the next week or so.

I'm hoping that it can be used as a part of our adult sunday school at church during this coming year.
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Legal Affairs: The Copyright Cage
Bars can't have TVs bigger than 55 inches. Teddy bears can't include tape decks. Girl Scouts who sing "Puff, the Magic Dragon" owe royalties. Copyright law needs to change.
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