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There has been a lot of interesting stuff around the blogosphere today, including in unexpected places. I usually look to IO9 for science fiction updates, but today they had a post about developing computer programs to decipher languages, and it was tested on Ugaritic<\/a>! <\/p>\n

Meanwhile the blog I recently discovered, Jesus Needs New PR, shared a video of one of the least intelligible \u201carguments\u201d I\u2019ve ever encountered<\/a> to support any point of view, anywhere, ever. It came from another blog which was new to me, Stuff Fundies Like<\/a>, which also had this poster to share:<\/p>\n

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Of course, the allusion is to a story that has been discussed here before.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve saved the serious stuff for last. Via DukeNewt<\/a> and Evangelical Textual Criticism<\/a>, I learned that there is a new journal in which students can publish their New Testament research<\/a>. It looks like a fantastic opportunity.<\/p>\n

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