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Digitized Gutenberg Bible Available
Prince_Ali writes "A digital copy of the Gutenburg Bible, the first major Western book printed from movable type, has been made available by The University of Texas, available through the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center. The Ransom Center's copy of the Bible is claimed to be the finest in the world, and is now freely available to anyone who would like to examine it. More information can be found via this CNN.com article."
/.ing this site is blasphemous.
Now I have a reason to take my comp to church!
Business \Busi"ness\, n.;
A scam in which all people involved perceive as beneficial...
I already read it, what else you got?
Anyone can scan an entire book as a bunch of JPG's. Give me a .lit or ebook format and I'll be impressed!
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to make illegal copies of my words and destroy my IP rights. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you.
Yours etc.
Supreme non existent being
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
I knew it, God is a blogger!!!
Wait, cowboyneal uses Movable Type. Hmmmmmm.
I've read this book, and even got my own free review copy. This is the author's first work and thus it's hard to know what to expect. The book is inconsistent, hard to follow and fails to have a basic plot line. Some passages might be used for quotes, but overall the book needs a rewrite and it's apparent that no editorial job has been done.
The author seems to be didactic and often instead of retelling the stories tells his/her own opinion on what the readers should do with their life. Such style is permissible with self-help or political literature whereas Bible is somewhere in between Spiritual and Science Fiction sections.
Overall I would suggest waiting for the movie and perhaps a re-write. The end of the book is sort of a spoiler since everyone does. The author looks promising, however, I do not see Bible hitting the NYT best-seller list any time soon.
THank goodness for years I have been relying on dilbert comics as a religious alternative ~
In a related story, God is suing Johannes Gutenberg ...
I've found that my posts don't format quite right w/o a sig.
"Let me give you a little inside information. God hates it when it's referred to as "mythology." - Rufus, Dogma
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A man went to a rare book shop and noticed an old bible on display. He struck up a conversation with the book shop owner.
"Yeah, actually, I had an old bible which I threw out last week. It was by someone called Guten... something."
"Not Gutenberg, I hope?"
"Yeah, that's the one."
Upon seeing the look on the book shop owner's face, the man replied:
"Ah, don't worry. It wasn't worth anything. Some guy called Martin had scribbled in it."
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I don't like the ending in many of those Bible stories. Can I rewrite them? Goliath pummles David, The walls of Jerico stay up, the Tower of Babble works, Eve does the Wild Thing with a snake, and the Isrealites die at the edge of the sea after Moses gets Carple Tunnel trying to command it to part.
Hey, the Mormons made their own Bible, why can't I? What does Joseph Smith have that I don't? (well, maybe a loyal following and charisma, but those are overrated. Aren't they?)
Table-ized A.I.
...that SCO is not claiming any rights on that digital copy of the bible?
Hmmm, it looks to me like they missed the page at the beginning that reads:
Yaz.
How many times have I told you kids? No coffee in the digitizing lab!
<a href="http://www.joblessjimmy.com">Work is dumb and so is Jobless Jimmy.</a>
Legend has it that Gutenberg had a "wonderful little proof" of God's existence, but didn't record it in any of his Bibles because the margins were just barely too small to contain it.
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Well, looks like I won't have to snatch any more Bibles from hotel rooms.
Bible, schmible! I much prefer Guttenberg's movie.
"Yeah, well, Dracula called and he's coming over tonight for you and I said okay."
That's where I go to take a crap when I'm on campus.. No joke, they have nice, clean shitters. And if you're quick, you can have gutenberg toilet paper...
I'm assuming this is a joke, right?
Well! I say! If it's isn't in the bastion of knowledge upholding the history of the western hemisphere that is known as Wikipedia, why then it simply cannot be true!
Thank you humbly kind sir for setting this gross fallacy straight!
I can't stand people who can't even be bothered to re-read what their writing to make sure it makes since.
Makes since what?
1st grade grammar is down the hall to the left.
Sanity is overrated...Being CRAZY is much more fun!!!
So does Zeus. :)
I certainly wouldn't mind a GPL-ed bible. I'd be more than happy to release my modifications to the world...
*evil grin*
Just use the Text Zoom under the view menu! Too bad the font sucks. I tried changing it, but it doesn't work. Didn't they use style sheets?
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What in the hell is wrong with you? You must be one uh dem dere damn yankees I keep hearin' 'bout... only people around dumb enuf to piss off a whole state fulla Texans...
well, not countin them aggies, we still ain't figured them out yet (i think they're in one-a them cults, like in waco)...
dum spiro, spero