Archive for April, 2005
Friday, April 29th, 2005
OK, I was just teaching the classic philosophy of mind piece from Thomas Nagel, "What is it Like to Be a Bat" today, and then I see this link (via Boing Boing): Pat Fletcher, blind for 25 years, hasbeen experimenting with a revolutionary new technology that allows her to ...
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Monday, April 25th, 2005
I used to have a "Recently Furled" section in the menu of which showed the last handful of things I'd put in my Furl bookmarks. But it wasn't working so well with the WordPress 1.5 and I took it off. Now, I've switched to del.icio.us for this, and ...
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Saturday, April 23rd, 2005
And while I'm on the subject of pretending in Oz World: For some reason, Oz thinks there's a very important difference between saying that, for example, what he just made with play-doh is "pretend food" (bad), and saying we're pretending that it's real food (good).
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Saturday, April 23rd, 2005
Recently, Oz has been pretending that he is a dad, and his stuffed Pooh bear is his son. Pooh then appropriately calls me "Grandpa", which I'm OK with. Mostly, it's kind of sweet, and as if he's emulating me, as a dad.
Except for the fact that Pooh's mother ...
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Saturday, April 16th, 2005
God is for Suckers!, the atheist site I do with some other people, is now blocked by the SonicWALL Content Filtering System. I found this out because I sometimes use the excellent free wi-fi access at Panera Bread, and they use SonicWALL to filter their content.
Now, I'm generally against ...
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Wednesday, April 13th, 2005
Christian terrorist Eric Rudolph pleads guilty in Olympic bombing. And if you don't think he deserves that title, I highly recommend reading the Statement of Eric Robert Rudolph. The guy planted a series of bombs which killed people to further his anti-Washington "pro-life" agenda. But does the ...
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Tuesday, April 5th, 2005
Hey, what did you expect -- these are kids who were growing up during the Clinton presidency: Oral sex safe and not really sex, US teens say.
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Monday, April 4th, 2005
I've never been a huge fan of J.P.II's. There's the whole God thing, of course; and then, on anything that had anything at all to do with sex, sexuality, gender, reproduction, and the like, he was a totally insane troglodyte -- from abortion to birth control to homosexuality to ...
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