Rare Article: Why can’t Satan be a federal judge?
American satanists are tired of government favoritism toward Christianity and have decided to do something about it. The Guardian reported that a New York-based satanist temple has contacted the Oklahoma Capitol Preservation Commission and offered $20,000 to construct a satanic monument next to a Ten Commandments monument approved and constructed next to the Oklahoma Capitol building. “We believe that all monuments should be in good taste and consistent with community standards. Our proposed monument, as an homage to the historic/literary Satan, will certainly abide by these guidelines,” says Lucien Greaves, spokesperson for the temple. Sean Murphy of the Associated Press reported that the Ten Commandments monument was privately funded, and […]
Rare Article: Coming Soon: The Atheist Church Bulletin
This week, the Sunday Assembly in Los Angeles, California opened its doors to the godless world. This church for atheists is the brainchild of British comedy duo Sanderson Jones and Pippa Evans. According to their website, Sunday Assembly’s motto is “Live better, help often, wonder more,” and their pursuit of that motto takes on a familiar church flair. Sunday Assembly proclaims they host regular services, joy-filled singing, thought-provoking guest speakers and even an “offering” collected for local charities. The sleek-looking website shares that 40 congregations spread across the U.S., Britain, and Australia have emerged under the Sunday Assembly brand name and that more congregations are in development. Evans and Jones […]
Rare article: The NSA Internet Romp
General Keith Alexander, director of the National Security Agency testified before Congress last year that his agency does not “willingly” data mine information on U.S. citizens. Now, thanks to Edward Snowden’s whistle blowing, document leaks and confirmation by senior intelligence officers, we know that Gen. Alexander’s revelations were not entirely accurate. So, just for the record, the NSA has been indiscriminately data mining American’s emails. According to recent reports from the The Washington Post, the NSA’s previously undisclosed program last year gathered over 700,000 email addresses from websites like Yahoo, Facebook and Gmail during the course of a single day. This would make the NSA email-address intake 250 million per year. The […]
Nowte in Forbes Latvia!
Here is an article I edited and translated for Nowte App: [The following is a summary* of an article in Forbes Latvia, September, 2013 issue]: When you watch the short demo video on Nowte’s website, you see that Nowte is a nice tool for organizing the photos on all your devices – phone, tablet, and PC. Yet, when you consider if there is a marketplace for Nowte, you find several dozen photo and note applications already out there, and that the market for these applications is legitimate. Zigmars Rozentals, age 30 and founder of Nowte, studied Public Relations, and in 2004 he created his first company called HTML. It provided […]
Latter Rain goes international with Nowte App!
Latter Rain Media is pleased to be teaming up with Zigmars Rozentals to help develop written content for Zigmars company, Nowte App, based in Riga, Latvia. Nowte App is a picture note-taking application that uses OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology to record all the written information taken by a photo and catalogs the data according to keywords and phrases. The application and its designer have already received the attention of startup investors, both in Europe and America. Zigmars competed in a contest hosted by Startup Latvia, for a trade show touring spot in Silicon Valley. Nowte App and 5 other companies were selected to go and market their products to […]
The 168 Project and Book Update
In May 2013, I participated in a 168 film competition with a group of wonderful young people. The competition is the premiere Christian speed film competition, and took place the last two week of the month. The project took a total of 17 days, the first 10 were devoted just to me scriptwriting, and the last week to filming and post-production. I had never worked on a film set before, and it was quite an honor to be asked to write a script.The final piece is currently being edited for a film festival next year. I will post it as soon as it is finalized. Special thanks to Seth Rice, […]
“Sustainable Market Garden” Book Writing
I’ve begun the writing process for a book based around my brother’s backyard market garden. He has been able to produce hundreds of pounds of food for not only his family, but also several other families, and all with 2 hours of work time. He accomplished this task by engineering a garden space that was conducive to modern technology, and sustainable growing methods. The book will be focused on providing usable engineering methods for novice and expert growers, to increase yields while reducing the manual labor invested. I am currently in the process of researching the volume, and hope to have it released in Spring 2014. Stay tuned… — JR
Welcome to Latter Rain Media’s Blog!
Welcome to my business blog! I look forward to sharing any updates I have concerning Latter Rain Media and information about our partners, but, first let me share a little about the company’s origin. Latter Rain Media was birthed in 2008, when I, as an aspiring 19 year old writer, I desperately was searching for contract writing work. At the time, the only jobs available were editing jobs for technical documents, dull and lifeless pages that nonetheless paid for college tuition. 5 years later, the situation has changed dramatically, as contacts have given me more creative working outlets. This year, I have been given the opportunity to work on several […]