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The one where E destroys a bookshelf

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Justification and hyphenation

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Why is virtually nothing on the web justified and hyphenated? Grab any book off the shelf in your home or office and I’ll bet you it’s justified and hyphenated. In fact, I challenge you to find me a book that isn’t. Hundreds of years of making books and it seems to me everyone agrees justified [...]

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NPR miscellany #4

I’ve been using LibraryThing to catalog my books since September 2005. All Things Considered on NPR recently featured LibraryThing in a story called “Web Sites Let Bibliophiles Share Books Virtually” (listen). I especially love the intro to this story: You know that you’re a bibliophile if you check out peoples’ bookshelves when you visit their [...]

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Christian basics

I just finished a couple of great books: Christian Beliefs: Twenty Basics Every Christian Should Know by Wayne Grudem and Basic Christianity by John R.W. Stott. If I had to choose one of these books over the other, I think it would be Christian Beliefs. It follows the same major topics as most full-blown theology [...]

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    Joey Day is a thirty-something IT professional (read: big nerd) living in Salt Lake City, Utah. When he grows up he’d like to be a Seminary professor (read: even bigger nerd).

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