Google announced the Google Apps Marketplace today.
It offers web applications that integrate directly with Google Apps.
The new platform makes a number of new data integrations possible.
The Google blog has an official announcement and an introductory video:
For most people living in North America or Europe, almost all conceivable information is readily available.
The Internet, printed publications, and public libraries provide intellectual treasurers to all who are curious.
This is wonderful, but more information is not always better information. Availability of material can decrease competence when it is not actionable. Publication is infinite, but [...]
The book Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices by Thomas Brooks contains this word to the reader:
Dear Friend!
Solomon bids us buy the truth (Prov. 23:23), but doth not tell us what it must cost, because we must get it through it be never so dear. We must love it both shining and scorching. Every parcel of [...]
The following footage comes from a BBC TV series called “Fun to Imagine.”
I found it through the TED website.
The material is fascinating and I highly recommend watching and learning:
I had a piano lesson with a visiting pianist who regularly returns to Tulsa, having formerly taught at the University of Tulsa.
I performed two Chopin etudes for him and was given constructive criticism, for which I am grateful.
The lesson took an unexpected turn when the instructor asked me to play another piece for him, so [...]
Academic Earth provides free online lectures from leading universities.
Courses are available from these universities:
Berkeley
Columbia
Harvard
Michigan
MIT
NYU
Princeton
Stanford
UCLA
Yale
I am particularly pleased to see Computer Science courses from Berkeley, Harvard, MIT, and Stanford.
The lectures are excellent (or, at least the ones I have seen). There is now no reason for anyone not to be exposed to material from top universities.
Knowledge is a wonderful thing. It permits increased insight. It fosters informed discussion and collaboration. It empowers tremendous advancements. It solves many problems.
For all of its excellence, however, knowledge can also be problematic. It can reveal dearly held notions to be incorrect. It can foster an unwholesome sense of pride and arrogance. It does not [...]
What is your progress on your yearly goals?
If you were setting new goals for this month (and you should), what would they be?
Have meaningful contributions been added to your learning this year?
How will the last month of the first quarter be different from the first two?
Have you embraced risky new [...]
I am working on some personal theological studies which I hope to publish in part soon.
In the mean time, I shall share some existing content I consider worth reading.
While I am not in a habit of using written prayers, this one fosters wholesome contemplation:
Lord high and holy, meek and lowly,
Thou hast brought me to the [...]