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"This Is Just to Say" or "the tragedy of life"
[Your grade-school teachers] were right. Lists are the only way out of this mess ( Read more... ) -
firefly meme
When you see this on your friends' list, post a quote from Firefly.
Simon: This must be what going mad feels like.
(minutes later, after we descend deeper into Twilight Zone land)
Simon: No--this must be what going mad feels like.
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happy
What is the nature of happiness? What does it take to be happy? It's my understanding that the old Greek philosophers' general answer to the question of how to attain and keep happiness indefinitely was to arrange your way of thinking such that your happiness hinged on things that weren't likely to change like mountains and the sky and stuff ( Read more... ) -
Hmm
Ookay... Personally, I see myself as being all Simon on the outside with maybe a little bit of Kaylee on the inside. Whatever. Note 50% of "The Operative". Interesting.
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Neil Gaiman, Studio 360
There's a Public Radio International show Studio 360. I "tuned in" to KCUR's real audio feed and came into an interview with Neil Gaiman. If you do the podcast thing, you can get the RSS feed. (And if you don't know about podcasting, but want to try, there's a few software download links on that page too.) There's some shownotes with real audio ( Read more... ) -
Serenity
Serenity is in U.S. theaters now. If you live in that country, why haven't you seen it yet?
If you don't live in that country, here are the anticipated release dates for various locations world wide, as of today's date:
Oct 07: Britain: 4 days
Oct 07: Ireland: 4 days
Oct 19: France: 16 days
Oct 21: Spain: 18 days
Oct 28: Italy: 25 days ( Read more... ) -
what is the meaning of this?
There's an article here about Roberts' nomination to the Supreme Court and interpretation of words in the Constitution. In it, the writer makes a few good points about the difficulity of determining meaning.
First, as especially Wittgenstein argued, words do not merely mean ( Read more... ) -
New Orleans
Right now I'm watching the President on Fox 4, special broadcast thing. He's being briefed on the hurricane Katrina situation by the coast guard and other various etc.
But it still doesn't seem like enough. I was listening to the worsening situation on the BBC Overnight while at work. The mayor of New Orleans has probably burned his career, but ( Read more... ) -
White House to Tap Strategic Oil Reserve--Why?
NPR audio available from this page (3min running time).In the wake of hurricane Katrina, the White House has authorized the release of some oil from the nation's strategic oil reserves. But will it really help? And if so, how? There are some oil refineries in the region that are currently not doing anything because they have no crude oil to ( Read more... ) -
spam spam spam spam / image hosting?
Oh look, it's Spam The Next Generation. Well, actually this probably isn't even particularly new, but it's the first time I've run across it. (View Image on its own to make it larger)
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