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Brain pretzel gumbo
More brain food for those recent discussions: “If the world was without any natural evil and suffering we wouldn’t have the opportunity, or nearly as much opportunity, to show courage, patience and sympathy.” – Richard Swinburne “When written in Chinese, the word ‘crisis’ is composed of two characters – one represents danger, and the other…
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Paris in the Springtime
Paris Hilton is set to marry her boyfriend, Paris Latsis. It’s like a double latte, only with Parises. Ohmygod, that’s so beautiful. If I met a man with my name I would totally marry him. Except, wait, that would be really, like, weird. You know how hard it was to find that link? I had…
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Now, this is interesting
“However jewel-like the good will may be in its own right, there is a morally significant difference between rescuing someone from a burning building and dropping him from a twelfth-storey window while trying to rescue him.” Thomas Nagel, Mortal Questions
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Naturally
halfbake goes & fakes the Shroud of Turin with Hamburgers. benpeek admires the individuality & poise of the Miss Universe contestants (which maybe feeds in to recent comments on bellydancing by babalon_93 and doctor_k_, in case anyone’s wondering why I’m mentioning it). gwendabondgirl promises to update us on all the many ways the panel is…
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Naturally, there’s a lot to catch up on
Starting with: http://showdown.contagiousmedia.org/ In an era where the proliferation of information has been accelerated through technological advancement and the Internet, how do people decide what information they will share with others? Contagious Media explores this question in an exhibition of recent projects developed specifically to quickly spread socio-political messages through the digital equivalent of “word…
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It was the modem & also, the other modem
The old modem was really, really broken (what do you do with an old, broken modem? Anybody want one?) & the new modem was also a router. See? So, *of course* you don’t try to connect to it with PPPoE, you have to DHCP it. But the tech support types (of whom there were several)…
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Maybe an answer to the homeless obsession of mine
I still love overheardnyc: http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/001629.html Stormtrooper: Man, I can’t even move in this thing. I thought about starting an overheardsydney, but I just don’t get out much & maybe the drunken conversations I have with friends are more humourous for me than they are for anyone else. Test: X (miming answering his phone): I’d like…
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Proof that apes will soon be SMSing
Monkies and robots and oh, don’t the Americans spell ‘monkies’ cutely? :) http://www.dukemednews.org/news/article.php?id=8662 (P.S. Yes, this was on BoingBoing 2 weeks ago. Everything takes longer without proper internet access. So sue me. http://www.boingboing.net/2005/05/10/monkeys_treat_robot_.html) (P.P.S. I am cold & frightened. Please send new modem quickly.)
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And this is fantastic, BTW.
Zombies. Good for shootin’ and … shootin’. http://artscool.cfa.cmu.edu/~lee/deanimator.html