Margaret points my attention to the CNN story on a site that aims to nominate a saint to be patron of the internet.
Several quick reactions.
First, I thought this was already well underway and that the smart money favored encyclopedist Isidore of Seville, among whose distinctions was his encouraging Christian religious to study Hebrew (I like Isidore because he served as the eponymous patron of the main charcter in Philip K. Dick’s Confessions of a Crap Artist, but that’s just me).
Second, I grow weary of religious news comprising only this sort of two-headed frog story: “aren’t those religious people funny?” You’ll never see a CNN story on a breakthrough book on Trinitarian theology, or midrash, or the Temple of the Tooth. Plenty of “Face of Jesus Seen on Big Mac,” but precious little serious, thoughtful analysis or reflection. Sure, the weirdo stories are more entertaining—I understand the bread and circuses factor at work here—but it’s exasperating nonetheless. Wouldn’t it be helpful to see some serious reflection, for instance, on how very remote George’s unprovoked invasion of Iraq departs from anything resembling a “just war” as the Christian theological tradition has defined it? How about “How George’s maniacal determination to visit war on Iraq looks to the Dalai Lama” (himself a media celebrity), or from a Confucian perspective, or any of a thousand other worthwhile features?
Third, I’ve been multi-tasking so much that I don't remember what else I was going to say.
Fourth, someone asked for more Hi-Ho links. I went further up the directory chain and came up with these: one, two, three, four, five, six more.
Posted by AKMA at January 31, 2003 02:22 PM | TrackBackI'd prefer Isidore as well (the man had no qualms about copyright in putting together his encyclopedia, either), but I think the "local two-headed frog" story is inevitable in most types of popular journalism. Those stories are especially noticeable in religion coverage, but they also show up in foreign affairs ("a typhoon killed 800 in Southeast Asia. Now, back to next week's TV season premieres..."), in neighborhood news ("and here we have detailed coverage of the weirdest murder ever"), even in the food section ("read my elaborate review of this four-star Vietnamese-Peruvian fusion restaurant none of you schlubs will be able to afford a meal at"). Readers enjoy the familiar on the one hand (it's interesting to notice how many of us who listed ten favorite novels came up with a lot of childhood favorites) and the bizarre-but-not-threatening on the other. New developments in Trinitarian theology, once translated into the vernacular, might scare someone -- _have_ scared people, historically speaking. Jesus on a Big Mac is just perfect. ;)
Posted by: Naomi Chana at February 2, 2003 09:43 AMLet's see an example by converting our favoriteNumber variable from a stack variable to a heap variable. The first thing we'll do is find the project we've been working on and open it up in Project Builder. In the file, we'll start right at the top and work our way down. Under the line:
Posted by: Pierce at January 12, 2004 07:03 PMEach Stack Frame represents a function. The bottom frame is always the main function, and the frames above it are the other functions that main calls. At any given time, the stack can show you the path your code has taken to get to where it is. The top frame represents the function the code is currently executing, and the frame below it is the function that called the current function, and the frame below that represents the function that called the function that called the current function, and so on all the way down to main, which is the starting point of any C program.
Posted by: Wombell at January 12, 2004 07:03 PMThese secret identities serve a variety of purposes, and they help us to understand how variables work. In this lesson, we'll be writing a little less code than we've done in previous articles, but we'll be taking a detailed look at how variables live and work.
Posted by: Alexander at January 12, 2004 07:03 PMTo address this issue, we turn to the second place to put variables, which is called the Heap. If you think of the Stack as a high-rise apartment building somewhere, variables as tenets and each level building atop the one before it, then the Heap is the suburban sprawl, every citizen finding a space for herself, each lot a different size and locations that can't be readily predictable. For all the simplicity offered by the Stack, the Heap seems positively chaotic, but the reality is that each just obeys its own rules.
Posted by: Joan at January 13, 2004 09:52 AMLet's see an example by converting our favoriteNumber variable from a stack variable to a heap variable. The first thing we'll do is find the project we've been working on and open it up in Project Builder. In the file, we'll start right at the top and work our way down. Under the line:
Posted by: Jeremy at January 13, 2004 09:52 AMTo address this issue, we turn to the second place to put variables, which is called the Heap. If you think of the Stack as a high-rise apartment building somewhere, variables as tenets and each level building atop the one before it, then the Heap is the suburban sprawl, every citizen finding a space for herself, each lot a different size and locations that can't be readily predictable. For all the simplicity offered by the Stack, the Heap seems positively chaotic, but the reality is that each just obeys its own rules.
Posted by: Rees at January 13, 2004 09:52 AM