Monday Miscellany ed. 2

Thus begins the sec­ond edi­tion of the King­domGeek Mon­day Mis­cel­lany col­umn, so get ready for this week’s com­pendium of curiosi­ties, tri­fles, and things that’ll make thought­ful thinkers think.

• Phil John­son of the Pyro­ma­ni­acs remind us that the church ought to be more modesty-minded and laments the loss of inno­cence within Chris­ten­dom. There was a time that peo­ple who knew me would apol­o­gize when they said some­thing inde­cent around me. That doesn’t hap­pen so much these days, and that says more about me than them, and what it does say about me, I don’t like.

• One would hope that a for­eign nation doesn’t have crim­i­nal records for some­one named “Driver’s License,” but that’s just the sort of thing that hap­pened with police offi­cers in Ire­land who repeat­edly mis­read Pol­ish driver’s licenses. When in doubt, the Intar­webz are full of free trans­la­tion tools.

• Stop hack­ing for the past and look to the future with the lat­est and great­est style prop­er­ties avail­able to Web designers.

• Death is Not Dying. Rachel, a ter­mi­nal can­cer patient, shares her faith and con­fi­dence in Jesus Christ even in the face of cer­tain death. You owe it to your­self to set aside about an hour to here the words of this blessed woman.

• Find­ing the right look for a nav­i­ga­tion menu is impor­tant for sev­eral rea­sons, espe­cially usabil­ity and aes­thet­ics. Get some inspi­ra­tion.

• I don’t run a multi-member blog — most of us don’t — but for those who do, here is a very sim­ple trick to dis­play post con­tent to logged in users only. The trick is light­weight enough to use for even the sim­plest of pur­poses, such as dis­play­ing “to dos” or “could you fix or update this” notices to other blog edi­tors. Or per­haps you want to save your best con­tent for those who reg­is­ter on your site. The code is even The­sis–ready; just drop it into your custom_functions.php file!

• OS X Leop­ard user look­ing for­ward to the upcom­ing Snow Leop­ard? You’ll be able to grab it for only $29 when it arrives in Sep­tem­ber. Thank you, Apple!

• My dad is blog­ging now and recently made his first non-meta post: Donat­ing to Sci­ence. Go forth, and comment.

• The impor­tance of long-term friendship.

• Oh, yes, everyone’s a Trekkie, even if they are in a galaxy far, far away.

What have you been into over the past week?

Oh, and if you’re won­der­ing about The­sis 1.5.1, I can only say that it will be out soon and will work like a treat with Word­Press 2.8. Regard­ing “how soon,” well, you’ll have to ask Chris about that one!