Hey friends, I pray December and the holidays are treating you well. Here's a quick review of what went up on the site this month—some thoughts on Scripture, a few book recommendations, and the random internet finds that caught my attention. Quick reminder: I'm currently
Anthony Parrott
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The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell This is one of those beautifully devastating books that's impossible to describe. Yes, at its bare essentials, it's about Jesuits traveling to space and meeting aliens. But it's also about colonialism and pain and romance and asceticism and so
H/T Kottke: Watch Jonas Wolf and three friends sing a choral arrangement of the Bee Gee’s Stayin’ Alive in the style of a madrigal. Just in case (like the me of 1 minute ago) you don’t know what that is (although you will recognize it from just
An Advent Reflection
Based on the evaluation of 48 dyslexic subjects ages 11-50, reading 12 texts with 12 different fonts, they determined that reading performance was best with sans serif, monospaced, and roman fonts used in the study. They also found that reading was significantly impaired when italic fonts were used. Use of
I've spent the past couple of days reading Matthew Butterick's Practical Typography. I've cared about good design and typography for years. But I couldn't actually do it myself. Butterick's book helped changed that. It lives up to its name—it&
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