Archive for March, 2007
Thursday, March 22nd, 2007
Being a pretty serious procrastinator (hey, I once wrote a section of a chapter of a book called "The virtues of procrastination"), I've read a lot of crap over the years about procrastination and how to avoid it. (Item #1: Don't blog. Oops.) But the best ...
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Thursday, March 22nd, 2007
There's been a bunch of stuff written recently on the 10th anniversary of the "Heaven's Gate" mass suicide. But the most unsettling of it is just watching the "exit videos" made by some of the cult members just prior to their deaths about what they think they're doing, and ...
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Tuesday, March 20th, 2007
...Paul McCartney is to the Beatles. Arguably the most important ingredients in the synergies that made those bands great, but outside of those bands, victims of their own softness. The Beatles and The Police both make my "best 5 bands ever" list (hey, screw you, I'm old, OK?), ...
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Sunday, March 18th, 2007
Occasionally, I glance at the logs here; among other things, they tell me what search terms bring people to this site. So, in the tradition of "I remain the King of tight-assed porn", I point out that of the nearly 1.3 million results Google gives for the search "hot ...
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Thursday, March 15th, 2007
I'm a recently converted follower of Saint Gasoline in general. But the most recent one hits a particular soft spot, since I've recently been teaching the whole Matrix 'n Skepticism thing. In Video Game Philosophy, we get both the cartoon of Pac-Man talking of escaping Plato's cave the ...
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Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Best thing from the Institute for Humanist Studies in quite a while: The "Mr. Deity" videos, available at YouTube.
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Wednesday, March 14th, 2007
The Times has sucked for their paywall "Times Select" BS. But those of you who have a .edu email address can now get it for free, at least. Check it out at TimesSelect University E-mail Verification.
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Tuesday, March 13th, 2007
From PHD Comics: Where do I sign?
Maybe you had to have been there. Which I have, of course. And these days, I am Prof. Smith.
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Friday, March 9th, 2007
Happy half-century to Pharyngula's P.Z. Myers, who's been on my favorites links list pretty much as long as I've had one.
Oh, we're supposed to have a poem (see here). Not much of a poet, I'll offer a psuedo-haiku:
Fellow Patches Pal,
Does our atheism make
us Boris Buddies?
(P.Z. and I have ...
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Thursday, March 8th, 2007
Cory Doctorow rocks in general, but I especially liked this talk on privacy he gave recently at Duke: From Myspace to Homeland Security: Privacy and the Totalitarian Urge. Worth a listen. Right about pretty much everything.
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