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Rebecca seems to think that I don't post much Yukon stuff. She has a point. My buddy Chris, seeing my predicament, sent me this photo that was taken from near the top of Grey Mountain looking south. The three bicyclists are, from left, Geof, Chris, & Joel.
Click on the photo for a larger view. Chris says Grey Mountain is actually Canyon Mountain. I didn't know that!
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The BBC reports that Codex Sinaiticus, the oldest known manuscript of the complete Bible, both Old and New Testaments, is about to go digital. The manuscript, which dates from the 4th century, is currently in the British Library, London. A parchment book with oversize pages of about 14 by 16 inches, it contains ancient Greek text in uncial script–all capitals with no spaces between words and no punctuation.
The Old Testament of the Codex Sinaiticus is the Septuagint, the Greek translation made in the 3rd century BC. More information on this project from the British Library is available here and here.
This will be very useful for students of the Bible who can read biblical Greek. For the rest of us, it might be fun to look at. Here's a sample.
via CaNN.
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So says Mathias Doepfner, CEO of a German media company, in the online edition of Beirut's Daily Star:
Today we are faced with a particularly grotesque form of appeasement. How is Germany reacting to the escalating violence by Islamic fundamentalists in Holland, Britain and elsewhere in Europe? By suggesting - wait for it - that the proper response to such barbarism is to initiate a "Muslim holiday" in Germany.I wish I were joking, but I am not. A substantial fraction of Germany's government - and, if polls are to be believed, the German people - actually believe that creating an official state Muslim holiday will somehow spare us from the wrath of fanatical Islamists. One cannot help but recall Britain's Neville Chamberlain on his return from Munich, waving that laughable treaty signed by Adolf Hitler, and declaring the advent of "peace in our time."
What atrocity must occur before the European public and its political leadership understands what is really happening in the world?
Despite its history of appeasement and hypocrisy, Europe portrays itself as a tolerant and self-righteous alternative to American "arrogance". Asks Doepfner, "Where does this self-satisfied reaction come from? Does it arise because we are so moral? I fear that it stems from the fact that we Europeans are so materialistic, so devoid of a moral compass."
via Arts & Letters Daily.
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