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Redundancy
An ad for "Hypercane" on the History Channel said this:
"A hypercane is basically a super hurricane."
Does anyone else get bothered by such empty sentences as these?
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On Discovery: Ethical Euthanasia?
You stumble upon a crypt lined with some form of stasis chamber. Assuming you understand how to do both, how do you choose between reviving the chambered and disabling their life support? Our instinctive choice is to revive them, or at least to allow their continued stasis, but if they have been there for hundreds or thousands of years, the ( Read more... ) -
On Taking Action: Motes Matter
The universe is infinite, or seems very near it by our perception, so what matter are our individual actions? To avoid a depressingly nihilistic viewpoint (as opposed to the celebratory viewpoint that we can't screw it up all that badly), we accept some perspective and suppose that our goals should focus on the human scale. In the immediate future ( Read more... ) -
Love on Campus
"In our sex-stupefied, anti-intellectual culture, the eros of souls has become the love that dares not speak its name."
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Another Open Letter
Dear Government of the United States of America ( Read more... ) -
Possible Spoiler Alert!
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"The Man Who Counted"
I meant to write a real post, do some journaling to collect my thoughts, and produce a to-do list.
Instead, the following: today I finished "The Man who Counted." It is a fantastic book. This review reads as though a third-grader wrote it. Still, read the book; it's great. -
Congrats SHS IB '07 Seniors
Well, despite the fact that you're the class of 07, I wanted to congratulate you all on making it this far--all you've got left are a few exams, and after the whole IB process how bad can those be, right ( Read more... ) -
IBM Innovation Challenge
Please go to the i4everyone website (http://www.i4everyone.com/2007/03/19/system-i-stands-for/) and vote for my video. Feel free to view the others and vote for them fairly, but I'd appreciate your support. (Only videos with the "A Star is Born" button next to ( Read more... ) -
April Fools'?
http://news.livejournal.com/97749.html
EDIT: Adding list of sites as discovered to have April Fools' pages.
http://xkcd.com/ (added 12 29)