Every now and then I ponder what happens to people’s different online presences when they die, but I hadn’t realized Facebook has a memorialization function for their accounts. See Social networking for the dead | Alan Wilson | guardian.co.uk.

If you liked Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog and you like comic books then you might be interesting in this coming out from Dark Horse – Dr. Horrible (one-shot).

You can read an interview with the writer over at Newsarama.com : [Zack] Whedon’s DR. HORRIBLE: DHC’s Latest One-Shot Wonder.

I’m wondering about setting a photoessay as an assessment for a postgrad class next year (to try and break the mold of everything being lots and lots of words), and was wondering if anyone knew of some good examples of how to do that?

An online game from the University of North Carolina Greensboro getting students to think about academic information and sources.

See The Information Literacy Game.

A while back I wrote a piece for Candour, a Presbyterian eZine, on some of the different ways religion and comic books interact. A few months later I needed to lecture in that area for my Bible in Popular Culture course, and so had all the notes prepared. I love it when a plan comes together.

The article looked at:

• How biblical material gets directly transfered to graphical media. (e.g. a graphic adaptation of a gospel)
• How spiritual and religious material might occur in ‘secular’ comic books.
• How comic book material might be used for tracts and polemics, and to support a faith-community.
• And finally, how the comic book format might be used as a theological or spiritual source (e.g. wrestling with theodicy).

The next step would be to take each of these sections and turn them into academic articles in their own right. I always wanted a job where I’d get paid to read comic books

Picked up some good materials at Armageddon at the weekend to help with this.

Having just set a couple of exams recently and wondering about how students used to typing everything would go with handwriting mini-essay answers, so this post over a Derek’s blog seemed pertinent. See Derek’s Blog » Do we learn to hand-write simply to sit exams?.

Personally, I always hand-wrote detailed lecture notes, particularly as I could also add in diagrams etc. and connect ideas on the pages far more quickly and more effectively than notetaking on a laptop. During exam time I would put the computers away and hand-write my prep notes etc. This served me well in exams as I could write fluently (if not always coherently) for extended periods of time. Times change though, I guess.

James McGrath notes a couple of documentary series about Jesus of Nazareth available to watch online. I knew about the PBS FRONTLINE: from jesus to christ – the first christians, but not the National Geographic material available here at Jesus: The Preacher.

Related link: PBS Empires: Peter and Paul and the Christian Revolution

I recently picked up a copy of “Scared Sacred” which is in the ‘to watch’ pile. This looks like this movie might join it there, once it comes out on DVD. See: :: Oh My God – Movie ::.

Seen on Kevin Kelly’s Cool Tools blog – Cool Tools: The Geek Atlas – a book about a large number of different places to visit that have special geeky significance. I wonder if it’s on sale here?

Some of these are quite clever. Others not so. See Biblical Tweets