Wygle Wide Web

A quiet field journal of digital archaeology. Reconstructing a life from 25+ years of digital traces, with occasional help from ChatGPT when things get weird or surprising.

Day: August 23, 2009

  • On the cross the wrath and love of God are both vindicated, they are both demonstrated, they are both expressed completely, and they both shine out and are utterly fulfilled. – Timothy Keller, Gospel Christianity 1 (Redeemer Presbyterian Church, 2003), 71. (via Of First Importance & Dustin) Source: firstimportance.org

  • Avoid the Starbucks siren’s caffeine call and save your money for better beans. Cold-brewing exposes expensive coffee for what it is: a ripoff. Expensive coffee makers? Unnecessary. Using vinegar to break up the calcium carbonate deposits in your coffee maker? What coffee maker? The only thing that matters is the beans. Coffee’s Dirty Little Secret…

  • With temperature change comes change in taste, but because cold-brewed coffee eliminates most of that temperature change, flavor is locked in. In other words, your day-old cold-brew won’t taste stale like day-old coffee. I must try brewing me some cold coffee. Source: thedailybeast.com

  • Watching a tubby Greek guy pour lighter fluid in a circle and lighting it is better than a lot of things. (via Christopher Benson’s Photos – Greece) Source: facebook.com

  • This is a beautiful reminder of how great and beyond understanding our God is. In December of 1995, astronomers did a risky experiment with the Hubble Space Telescope. They pointed it to a region in space the size of a speck of dust that is seemingly empty and kept the telescope watching for 10 days. (via Neatorama)…

  • Testing out Notify over the next week. It’s a menu bar app that keeps watch on multiple gmail inboxes (work, personal, your dogs email, etc) with a nice simple interface and growl integration. It doesn’t do Google Apps yet, they say that’s coming with a 1.1 in about a month or so. You’re probably wondering when…