Canter Bridge

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Rebecca Blood loves her craft.

In a world moving as fast as the cyberworld is, a book written in 2002 and reviewed now in 2007 is bound to show its age. The Weblog Handbook does so.

Yet for sheer, innocent (but not inexpert), joyful description of a weblog community that discovered itself almost accidentally between 1999 and 2002, this delightful little book is both a period piece and a still-useful introduction to weblogging for novices. (more…)

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Look, we don’t know each other. I may be an inveterate exaggerator, right? I might give all fives on my Amazon reviews. I might detest conflict and only say nice things about books.

You don’t know, do you? (more…)

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For some of us who are trying to get our weight where it ought to be, it’s worthwhile to pay a little more to buy into a system.

That’s what the South Beach Diet offers, in addition to an intelligent take on educating its practitioners about nutrition. (more…)

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As is the case with other South Beach Diet products, you pay for the system. If you want one less thing to think about as you make war with the Fat Monster, Kraft’s South Beach diet may be an ally you’ll want to engage. (more…)

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As is the case with other South Beach Diet products, you pay for the system. If you want one less thing to think about as you make war with the Fat Monster, Kraft’s South Beach diet may be an ally you’ll want to engage. (more…)

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Under normal circumstances, rewarding a 5-star rating to a diet food is a sign of emotional imbalance or the pressing need to get out more.

But not this time. (more…)

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Under normal circumstances, rewarding a 5-star rating to a diet food is a sign of emotional imbalance or the pressing need to get out more.

But not this time. (more…)

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In the spiritually searching 1970’s of my adolescence, two men and a guitar burst onto the nascent Christian music scene with an enigmatic one-word label and a strange penchant for lapsing into Hebrew.

These guys were ‘Lamb’. They brought to their musical genre a Messianic Jewish angle that now seems almost commonplace, but which at the time was anything but that. As a teenager, I was taken by the deep currents of biblical ideas, biblical feeling, and biblical language that interpenetrated their music. (more…)

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