Comment changes This weekend (at the latest) I'm going to get rid of the Blogger comments link ("old blogger comments"), so the "comments" link, which uses the HaloScan commenting facility, will be the only one. Meanwhile, I'm disabling the Blogger comments link on any new posts, for the same reason I'm switching to HaloScan–Blogger comments…

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Dumb Headline of the Week (at least) "New Computers Can Read Minds" Even if this technology works, which is at least theoretically possible, do you consider yourself to be reading someone's mind when you infer something about his mental state from the look on his face? Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js

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A Prayer for the Anglican Communion Like a lot of Catholic bloggers and blog-readers, I've indulged in a certain amount of scoffing and I-told-you-so-ing over the past few days as the Episcopal General Convention pursued its typically unwise ways. Much of this came at the expense of the new Presiding Bishop's inaugural homily, and you…

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Music of the Week — June 4, 2006 Massive Attack: Mezzanine I don’t think I’ve ever heard anything described as “trip-hop” that I didn’t like at least mildly. It’s a matter of atmosphere, and to me the style seems a bit mis-named. No doubt the name arose because the style apparently began as a variation…

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After the Revolution I just posted the following in a comment on Dawn Eden's blog, and thought it worth repeating here. It's part of the continuing discussion of Dawn's book referred to below, and I'm replying to a commenter who signs himself (herself?) "Noumena": Noumena refers to "Those of us who are the intellectual children…

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HaloScan Commenting Enabled All right, then. I've added the free commenting service at HaloScan. I'm leaving the few existing comments in place for the moment, the ones listed under "old blogger system" but will plan to remove that code at the end of this month. Now I have to see what it will cost for…

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The Hardness of Their Hearts A curious phenomenon on display at the Dawn Patrol: Dawn publishes an excerpt from her forthcoming book, The Thrill of the Chaste, and the cultural left lashes out with furious scorn. Dawn has links here, here, and here, and responds here. You really have to slog through some of the…

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Music of the Week – May 28, 2006 Jimi Hendrix: First Rays of the New Rising Sun A couple of years ago something or other sparked me to listen to Jimi Hendrix for the first time in quite a few years, and I realized why guitar players still hold him in something close to awe.…

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National Review Online Is Having A Fund-Raiser But I'm wondering if the time has come to let my subscription lapse. With loathsome words from John Derbyshire echoing around the blogosphere today, I must say that (a) if Derbyshire is a conservative, I'm not and (b) if this is where NR is going, I'm not. Derbyshire…

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About Comments I had forgotten (from a year or so ago when I experimented with Blogger) about the deficiencies of the comment system, the biggest one being that I have to re-publish the blog for comments to appear (not really Blogger's fault if I have the blog on my own server, I guess). I'll have…

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