Tuesday afternoon ...

... but I'm listening to Transatlantic, not the Moody Blues. Here are some miscellaneous links.

The Bosworth-Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary is available free for the downloading, thanks to David Finucane. (It requires a Macintosh running OSX 10.3 or later.)

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Godspy interviews Barbara Nicolosi again:

The cultural divide in the country—much of it centered on faith issues—seems to be getting worse, not better. Secular people seem to feel more threatened than ever, based on what they're writing in the press. Are you seeing this in Hollywood too? Or has the culture war cooled down a bit there?

It's cooling down here because if it wasn't for the Christians, Hollywood would be in terrible financial trouble. If you think about it, a Christian project saved the global box office from 2001 to 2003 with Tolkien's trilogy, The Lord of the Rings. Then another Christian project, The Passion of the Christ, saved the global cineplexes in 2004. And yet another Christian story is going to save the entertainment industry this year with C. S. Lewis's The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. What does that mean? You know what, guys? You can hate Christians, you can disdain them, but you sure as hell better start pandering to them. (Laughs)

Is this potential to profit from the Christian market opening up minds in Hollywood at all?

It has to. You know what they're doing now? Everyone in secular Hollywood is searching Christian literature and the Christian Bookseller Association market, trying to find the good story tellers who already have a name in the Christan community. It's kind of funny. But what's really funny is that while we Christians are standing on the side of the road rolling up our sleeves to do battle with these people, they might end up getting to our story before we get to them. And how disgusting would that be for us Jonahs sitting under our gourd plants?!

Nicolosi's previous interview is also worth reading.

Addendum: While you're at Godspy, be sure to read also Why Do Heathens Make the Best Christian Films?.

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I could never stand the Moody Blues, but I do like Transalantic.

I wonder if they got that name since you can cross the atlantic before one of thier songs is over.

It's fairly funny that they could have titled that later article 'Why do Heathens (and Catholics) Make the Best Christian Films'.