Matthew Henry John Bartlett

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Tuesday 29 November, 02005

Little feet

by Matthew Bartlett @ 12:27 am

I’m like an aesthete, or something. Not that I cultivate an appreciation for beauty more than other people (though maybe I do), but that for me the aesthetic aspect of experience often gets in the way. Like when I am confronted with some painful situation that a friend is in, my default setting is to ‘appreciate’ the situation, like I might appreciate a scene in a play. And reading theology or ecclesiology, or material on ecological issues, or listening to a lecture on Buddhism, or politics, or physics, or philosophy, I’m generally content to just enjoy the feeling of reading or listening, or the feeling of being on the cutting edge of something, or of being ‘challenged’. I don’t often move from that to action.

Monday 28 November, 02005

by Matthew Bartlett @ 9:58 pm

Where do old computers go when they die? [RealAudio]
CS Lewis in the hands of the Listener [via Kathy]

Sunday 27 November, 02005

by Matthew Bartlett @ 11:28 pm

Ben Witherington III on Anne Rice’s new novel
Where do baby computers come from?

Saturday 26 November, 02005

by Matthew Bartlett @ 12:01 pm

Gah, I noticed just one second-hand stereo too late that it’s Buy Nothing Day today. Though not too late for

Friday 25 November, 02005

by Matthew Bartlett @ 10:05 am

Panama Canal timelapse video [via Ian G]

Thursday 24 November, 02005

by Matthew Bartlett @ 11:00 pm

Hauerwas, the fighting pacifist, down on freedom & tolerance & such
CS Lewis in the hands of The New Yorker [via Tim M]

Tuesday 22 November, 02005

by Matthew Bartlett @ 8:01 pm

Julie Rubens lecture on moral character and the US university
Stanley Hauerwas, rather more bracingly, on the same topic
Stanley Hauerwas on JH Yoder

Monday 21 November, 02005

by Matthew Bartlett @ 2:27 pm

Wendell Berry: Health is Membership
I, Cringely on Google taking over the Internet [via SDG]

Sunday 20 November, 02005

by Matthew Bartlett @ 11:05 pm

Apparently building my laptop produced about nine tonnes of waste. I guess I better make it last.

Thursday 17 November, 02005

by Matthew Bartlett @ 8:20 am

AJ Chesswas is a construct, apparently, or maybe not. I think I have a better appreciation now for my non-blogging friends’ negatory or ambivalent attitude to the online world.

Berek is not a hetrosexual

I wonder if some time soon metanational corporations will become the focus of terrorist attacks, rather than particular countries or cities. I mean, you can’t keep blaming say McDonalds on America forever.

Tuesday 15 November, 02005

by Matthew Bartlett @ 9:13 pm

Rusty Reno on the Radical Orthodoxy project
Orson Scott Card interview [20MB QT]

Hermenutics of trust, man. Take anything seriously, no matter how tiny or twee or crapola the anything is, and it’ll open up and blossom and show you what you hadn’t seen before.

by Matthew Bartlett @ 7:38 pm

Monday 14 November, 02005

by Matthew Bartlett @ 10:22 am

Doug Jones on why Reformed churches always die [6MB MP3]

Sunday 13 November, 02005

by Matthew Bartlett @ 2:25 pm

David Koyzis on city renewal
The most beautiful guarded Japanese fireworks moment
Rorty on James, Proust, Bunyan, à Kempis

Friday 11 November, 02005

by Matthew Bartlett @ 8:45 am

Isaac Freeman unpacks PowerBook, amuses