Don't follow me, I'm lost too :)

[ikhet_sekhmet]

I've just been poking around in the Web site of the Council for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, where I found a reviewer reviewing a review, rather than responding to the books themselves. As I've been recently reminded by an unhappy fannish encounter, the hostile misrepresentation of peoples' words and views is a huge, white-hot button for me; and lazy outrage at second-hand (or nth-hand) accounts, like a somewhat dishonest game of "whispers", is all too common online and off. (I've never forgotten this ripping example from 1994.)

For this reason, I want to state explicitly to anyone reading this lj that you should never take my skimpy, amateur, and personally skewed summaries of serious scholars' work as definitive! Don't quote me - I might be talking rubbish. Grab the original source and see for yourself. :)

Thanks folks. *tips hat* btw, I've reblogged lots of photos of Ancient Egypt at my tumblr, discovered all over the Web. You can find them here:

http://dwellerinthelibrary.tumblr.com/tagged/ancient_egypt

Comments

[pbristow.livejournal.com]

The link to cbmw ("reviewing a review") gives me this *BIG* scary warning... Did you get anything similar?:

"This Connection is Untrusted

You have asked Firefox to connect
securely to www.cbmw.org, but we can't confirm that your connection is secure.


Normally, when you try to connect securely,
sites will present trusted identification to prove that you are
going to the right place. However, this site's identity can't be verified.


What Should I Do?

If you usually connect to
this site without problems, this error could mean that someone is
trying to impersonate the site, and you shouldn't continue.


Technical Details

www.cbmw.org uses an invalid security certificate.
The certificate expired on 11-01-25 23:59.
(Error code: sec_error_expired_certificate)


I Understand the Risks

If you understand what's going on, you
can tell Firefox to start trusting this site's identification.
Even if you trust the site, this error could mean that someone is
tampering with your connection.

Don't add an exception unless
you know there's a good reason why this site doesn't use trusted identification.
"

[pbristow.livejournal.com]

[SIGH] OK, now that I actually see the "Technical details" section... It's just an expired certificate. When did Firefox start throwing big scary page-long warnings for *that*? =:o\

[PROCEEDS TO THE LINKED PAGE]

[READS STANDARD EVANGELICAL/RIGHT-WING TIRADE]

[SIGHS AGAIN]

[ikhet-sekhmet.livejournal.com]

Belatedly, I've just started using Firefox for some stuff, and it gives the terrifying warning for Macquarie University Library's online catalogue! Ay yi yi