If you get the flu, you’ll finally have time to update your blogroll. I did. Since I’ve been using Google Reader, I have the tendency to add new blogs’ feeds there without necessarily adding them to the blogroll. I’ve added quite a few blogs, and was embarrassed to find several blogs that I’ve read for more than a year but which somehow never ended up on my blogroll. Sorry! If there’s a blog you know I read but still isn’t... Read more

If you get the flu, you’ll need lots of interesting activity on the biblioblogs to keep you entertained. So why not start a rumor that Jim West has achieved his top ranking among the biblioblogs by spending hours every day visiting his own blog? Read more

If you come down with the flu, spend your time devising the most dastardly blog meme ever, one so heinous that those tagged with it would much rather have caught your flu. Here’s one I thought of: The Blog In Any Language Meme Rules: 1) Learn a language you don’t already know.2) Find 5 blogs that interest you written in that language.3) Tag those blogs, explaining these rules of the meme to the bloggers in their native language. If that’s... Read more

If you come down with the flu, one way to pass the time is to blog a series of suggestions of ways to pass the time when you have the flu. See if you can come up with more positive recommendations than Jim West can come up with examples of total depravity. Read more

If you’re wondering what useful activities you can engage in while stuck at home with the flu, you can always get caught up on the latest LOST clues. Read more

If you come down with the flu and are looking for some in-home entertainment, try watching Animusic. Many of the clips from both Animusic and Animusic 2 can be seen either on the Animusic web site or on YouTube: Read more

If you come down with the flu, try taking the impossible quiz. Read more

The next Biblical Studies Carnival will be hosted at Hebrew and Greek Reader. They are not only asking for submissions, but for input on whether people prefer there to be as many posts as possible or a select few. Let them know what you think! Read more

“The Bible is a starting point, not an end point. It is instructive for not just the things it got right, but for the things it got wrong as well. Part of the process of discovery is learning from past mistakes, and if religion is a journey towards the mystery, then part of understanding the journey is knowing where we made some wrong turns.” — Mystical Seeker, “The Bible and Authority“ Read more

If you come down with the flu, why not download the Pimsleur Hungarian course, stick it on your mp3 player, crawl into bed, and don’t get up again until you’ve learned the basics of the language? If Hungarian isn’t your cup of tea, there’s always Swahili, Vietnamese, Czech… Speaking of cups of tea, those are also highly recommended! Read more