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Give an Internet Freedom Disk
An anonymous reader, perhaps the blogger himself, writes to tell us about a new blog aimed at getting non-techies excited over the idea of running from a Live CD. The blogger doesn't call it that, preferring instead "Internet Freedom Disk"; Linux is never mentioned. The submitter adds: "This is just a great gift to drop on your non-geek friends and potentially wake up a sleeping giant." Cheap, last-minute, and you can make them yourself. The blogger isn't selling anything; he provides links to Ubuntu and Knoppix Live CDs. Or pick your favorite.
Damn I just lost my mod points (like minutes ago)
That was very worty of a Funny mod.
Sorry mate. I owe ya one.
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I'm not saying the writing is any different, or that you'll like it any more, but there are Bibles in plainer English than the King James translation. Many of them are better translations, too. If you really want to read the Bible in plain English -- whether for your own beliefs, for literary purposes, in order to refute it, or any reason at all, you can go to your local religious bookstore and ask about the New International Version, a student edition Bible, or the Good News Bible.
Except Shakespeare was writing in the English of his day, and to translate it to the English of our times would be a shame of sorts, but could be a decent trranslation.
The KJV of the Bible was translated from Latin. The Bible was written in Greek and Hebrew. So Bibles that are translated from Greek and Hebrew into modern English tend to bear a closer resemblance to the original meaning than ones translated from Greek and Hebrew to Latin to Middle English to Modern English.
Sorry, your first sentence is wrong: one of the key things that makes the KJV special is that it was, in fact, an extremely scholarly translation from Greek and Hebrew, not from Latin. I can't read Hebrew, but can attest that its rendition of Greek is generally pretty precise.
Hm.
I have this jewish friend, Nogga. She's pretty fluent in hebrew, and a damned good writer in english. Also, she's a F to M in progress. I'll bet if I got her to paraphrase the catholic bible in modern english, as a novel, it would be controversial enough to make her millions of dollars. Or at least get billions of hate-emails. Should be fun either way.
When she's done, we can collaborate on merging source trees from Islam, and taking a few libs from the Tao and the Vishnu, mix up a little Dianetics, and toss in whatever those crazy mormons read (hey, there's nothing wrong with being a bit loony if your super nice all the time). Bring in the greek and norse stories, filling in all the gaps in between with the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
It'll be the most interesting mythological mashup of all time, not to mention that it would be SO sacrelicious!
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the average user non-techie won't give a ratts ass, neither to this nor to yesterdays BadVista site.
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