A La Carte (11/25)

  • Tim Challies
  • 11/25/10
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Well, happy Thanksgiving to all of my American friends. This is one of those days where I feel like I’m the only one out here on the Internet. I trust you all have better ways to be spending your time today. I’m thankful for you and glad that you get to take a day to just express gratitude. I could really go for a slice of pumpkin pie today…

Messages from R.C. Sproul - Speaking of Thanksgiving, here are a couple of appropriate messages from R.C. Sproul that Ligonier has made available for free.

ScrollTag - This looks like an interesting software package, designed to enable users to organize all of their notes, markings and tags on Biblical texts. It’s available for PC, Linux and Mac.

Does Black Friday Save You Money? - This article from Intuit looks at some of the hidden costs of Black Friday shopping…and then suggests that Cyber Monday is a worthwhile alternative.

The Things He Carried - I came across this article yesterday and thought it relevant to the airport security discussion that has come about since new measured were imposed on November 1. It shows quite conclusively, I think, that there is a large element of show about airport security.

The Christian is suspended between blessings received and blessings hoped for, so he should always give thanks. —M.R. Vincent

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a comment from Liz • 11/25 @ 12:29pm
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I’m here! Already have the turkey breast in the oven and the tree put up and decorated. I’ll be spending the afternoon reading. Nothing exciting but it’s nice to relax. Have a nice Thursday.

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a comment from Chris • 11/25 @ 9:05pm

Scroll Tag is weak. You can do what scroll tag does in Logos 4. You can also get Logos 4 (The low version, which is still ten times better than scroll tag) for a little over 200 if not under. (I got mine on sale last year, and love it)

I don’t understand why Christian companys are trying to compete with Logos. Logos does it all, or does it all for the laymen.

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a comment from Josh • 11/29 @ 1:18pm
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Chris,

Actually, most of the core features of ScrollTag are not available in any other software package. ScrollTag is not intending to compete with Logos, but to provide completely different functionality (although there is some overlap as with any Bible program). ScrollTag allows you to mark the text with lines, arrows, arcs, gradients, rectangles, pictures, a hierarchical tag system, as well as block diagramming and formatting the text in a variety of formats that other Bible programs cannot. ScrollTag also has some advanced search features such as phonological searches in Hebrew not available in other programs as well as Filters, another new concept. There are of course pros and cons to different software packages, but it is best to analyse each of those pros and cons objectively rather than making blanket statements about software packages. Thanks!