Thanks to Matt Bass, the Ruby community in Raleigh, North Carolina, has an excellent podcast of their meetings. Meeting topics have included Ruby ROI, PDF generation with Prawn, JavaScript testing with Blue Ridge, and the topic included here, alternative

I preached this sermon at Plymouth Presbyterian Church. The sermon title is "That's Great. Now What?", and it's about the Christian experience of being given revelation and left to sort out the details for ourselves.

Although my teenage-angst, KMFDM/PIG-idolizing self would hate to hear it, I’ve become quite a fan of downtempo and chillout music. Although I’m a big fan of Raleigh/Durham’s The Grooveblaster and Permanent4, undoubtedly my favorite arti

This sample podcast would have been recommended earlier, but I have trouble remembering that everyone isn’t already listening to this gem. The podcast is the WebDev Radio podcast, hosted by Michael Kimsal (who is also the primary host on WebDev Geek

Like the Dave’s Lounge podcast that kicked off the Enfranchised Mind podcast feed, the Idyllic Music Podcast is a great podcast for coding tunes (even if the intro music does bass-out my headphones). It’s shorter than most other music podcast

[Administrivia: I'm going to formalize the process a bit and place out sample podcasts once a month on the 1st. The the normal podcast feed will carry all the podcasts, including the samples. If your soul is wracked with suffering because of podcast sam

Alan Watts is a fascinating figure, and on the short list of role models for my aspiring career as an academic1. He groks the eastern sensibility of religion, but comes from a decidedly western context. Combining that with an apparently natural ease of

This is just so cool I had to share it: check out this awesome time-lapse of the grid by Tanner Lovelace. Those keeping up on the podcast will know Tanner as one of the two unwitting hosts of "What is a BarCamp?" (he's the "resident juggler" one). I'm t

The newest podcast episode: an introduction to BarCamps. This podcast explains what a BarCamp-style conference is and how it works (at least, how BarCampRDU works), and then goes through the sessions that were pitched. There was a lot of feedback from Ba

Berkeley podcasts/webcasts a lot of things (see here), including their classes. A life-changing podcast I picked up was PACS 164A: Introduction to Nonviolence. It was taught by Professor Michael Nagler, and goes over the theory and practice behind nonvi