Ontology is Overrated
A good article I found about categorization and searches on the internet. Should be especially of interest to the librarians among my readers- and I know you are out there.

My friend Bryan, of the quotes a couple of pages down, forwarded me a letter he sent to his senator. Greenpeace had asked him to send a letter opposing nuclear power plants, and although he is a member and agrees with them on many things, in this case he differed. I found the results highly ironic ( Read more... )

I caught the Red Elvises last night with a group of my friends. It was awesome. I love those guys. How this came to pass was cool as well- I wrote my friend Kristy two days ago mentioning that they hang out in this area, and that we should catch them the next time they come through town, and she replied yesterday telling me they were playing that ( Read more... )

I just discovered that one of my favorite philosophers was born today in 1872.

"As a lover of truth, the national propaganda of all the belligerent nations sickened me. As a lover of civilization, the return to barbarism appalled me."
Bertrand Russel

I caught "F for Fake" tonight, with three friends. I had seen it once before, but didn't remember it very well. It is about lies and fakery, in particular art forgery. Unfortunately, although many parts of it were very witty, there were a couple of really long, boring scenes in it. Oddly enough, I'm writing of the girl watching scenes. It is ( Read more... )

I'm busy enough with graduate work that after I get it finished, and take a reasonable amount of time for relaxing and socializing with friends, I don't have nearly as much time to devote to hobbies, interests, and self-improvement as I would like. I've been thinking recently about what my top priority should be with my spare time. I've come up ( Read more... )

Lion Mutilates 42 Midgets in Cambodian Ring-Fight

It's sick, but funny.

Personal HorrorWell worth reading for my gamer friends who are interested in addressing deeper issues through gaming ( Read more... )

Sociobiologists predict that animals that are poorly equipped for aggression are unlikely to have developed surrender signals. Man, they say, is one of these creatures. But we developed technology, including a technology of destruction, and this technology "evolved" much too quickly for our biological evolution to provide us with compensating ( Read more... )

I just saw Orson Welles' film based on the novel "The Trial", by Franz Kafka, at the Guild, a local alternative film theater. Pivotal in this movie was a parable from the book, called "Before the Law", which is introduced to the audience at the opening of the movie and mentioned again at the end, when the accussed Mr. K and his lawyer discuss it in ( Read more... )