I followed along with the original article's premise, which was intriguing enough... ...Until she started to cite Dan Brown's horribly written book, "The Da Vinci Code," which purports itself to be a "sourced" novel.

Right. And Wikipedia's data cannot be wrong, and Oswald really acted alone.

Not that the writer has to be Christian or even a theologian, but mixing her research alongside (jaw-droppingly bad and easily refuted) fictional information (the "Priory of Sion" was made up in 1954 or so) just asks someone to call BS on her whole entire study.

That would be too bad, since she might have stumbled onto the first decent lead in the decoding riddle.

The United States Congress.

We won't miss them, really. How many more new laws do we need? Seriously.

"Say you've got a victim of drowning. You need to probe inside to determine if water is present in the lungs, or if the victim died prior to immersion. And, say, you need to upload your results to your boss, the sheriff, the district attorney, and the press corps, all with one click.

"Yes, there's an app for that."

It's what happens when you think your online English-to-Latin translator works sufficiently. :)

It should come out as "You knew the job was dangerous when you took it."

Palm is only partially getting the big picture of the iPhone's success. Admittedly, however, they're doing a better job of it than, say, the carriers supporting the Android initiative. The Pre is the closest thing to an "iPhone killer" out there.

But Palm, you need the apps. Nay, you MUST bring the apps if you want your phone to begin to compete on Apple's multiple levels.

I agree that the person involved in this Palm app flap is likely overreacting. And for the dweebs that don't seem to get it regarding Apple's vetting process for apps: Don't think the FCC wouldn't haul Apple to court (and the cell owners lynching any Apple employees they'd see) if Apple couldn't show that they've checked EVERY app they've allowed on their phone (and, as a result, into the international cell network) without reasonably ensuring that the app doesn't cause an individual's phone to die or, worse, infect the iPhone net (and others) with bad or malicious code that could compromise the cell networks. Sure, Apple seems sometimes political about the vetting (note a recent app about health care that Apple seemed to reject arbitrarily), but otherwise they're only hurting themselves if they don't allow most apps from being available.

The iPhone is (as a fan and an owner) an fair phone but a very powerful and extensible mobile computer and Palm must match that functionality. The Pre is it's only decent competitor in terms of its relative features, OS and flexibility based on its carrier's desire to support the hardware without butchering it down for carrier-only apps (**cough**Verizon**cough).

But the apps bring Palm only so far. They need a mechanism that isn't carrier marketing specific to support and augment the hardware features of your phone. For the iPhone, iTunes handles everything and fairly well. Palm must bring it's own iTunes-like PC/Mac application that handles syncs, mates with their new Amazon music initiative, can access their Palm app store, AND even (get this) use the approved Apple process for third-party iTunes library support that won't get them into trouble as they did with spoofing their hardware with iTunes itself.

Right now, Palm is shooting themselves in the foot if they are rejecting apps for any reason other than gross obscenity or copyright/IP issues. They'll soon headshot themselves if they don't get even a modest competitor to iTunes running, in my humble Mac-consultant opinion.

I think the lawsuit is quackery, myself.

This work should be helpful in the translation issues that some scholars and theologians have faced, or worse, perpetuate.

IMO, the most difficult problems in Bible translations is (1) bias based on a reader's idea of what things say and (2) literallist POVs that don't consider that idiom and metaphors in the text shouldn't be taken (ahem) as gospel. One example from a Catholic apologist is the modern statement "it's raining cats and dogs." We today know that means "it's raining very heavily." Write that down in a book, bury it for 2,000 years. What would people then think that phrase means. A literalist will honestly think that cats and dogs fell from the sky. A person skilled not only in translation but in the culture of the time knows it to be a figure of speech--and will NOT change the wording despite that understanding.

And that, in an oversimplified example, is why humankind went from one Christian church to over 23,000. It's become a matter of bad translation and/or interpretation.

"The Matrix" movies have a lot of symbolism. Of course, that's like saying a tire has a lot of rubber.

Anyway: Neo's "birth name" in the Matrix, Thomas Anderson, was a play on his messianic destiny. "Thomas" is the name of one of Jesus's apostles, specifically, the man who doubted Jesus's resurrection until he could touch Christ's wounds from the crucifixion. "Anderson" comes from "son of Anders" or "son of Andrew"-from the Greek: "Andreas" means "man" or "manly."

So, Neo's name in the Matrix, where he continually doubts he is what Morpheus claims he is, basically infers that he was a doubting "son of man" (a name that Christ often used to refer to Himself as the son of God). Pretty heavy allusion. Of course, Neo touches his own wounds before he dies and his mind reboots, sheds his own disbelief of the Matrix's hold on him and becomes the One.

The movies load more allusions to both he and Trinity. Look at Neo's apartment number ("101") and the room number where the movie begins (where Trinity is hacking) and ends (room "303").

Many other writers of books on the movie's philosophies determined this stuff long before me, so don't shoot the messenger (much).

Now that Apple is allowing developers to create apps that can use the dock, expect all manner of options for non-screen input.

It's likely these games won't be very cheap but they certainly will be richer. There's still a problem in how to hold the iThingie with the game input.

A good (and fun) example of a sausage-finger-compatible game is Zombieville USA.