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January 2005
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Are you open source yet?
01.18.05 | Permalink | Comments Off on Are you open source yet?I’ve just about finished reading Hardt and Negri’s Multitude, the follow up to their philosophical blockbuster Empire. The gist of the two volumes is two old marxists trying to make sense of where the world is heading in an era of post-communist globalization. What’s impressing me as I finish up the second volume is this: […]
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No more pretend continuums or nonsense drives
01.17.05 | Permalink | 3 CommentsLooks like the new Battlestar Galactica series is well on its way to avoiding the usual technobabble that runs nonfans away from scifi. The first episode’s plotline showed the battlestar crew and political leaders dealing with some five straight days of unending attack. Inexplicably, these attacks happened every 33 minutes, at which point the fleet […]
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The restroom etiquette of menfolk
01.14.05 | Permalink | 2 CommentsOn the way to the parking deck after work today, the conversation turned (somehow) to how menfolk behave in the restroom. I was surprised to learn that in this area the ways of menfolk were neither well known nor well understood among my colleagues. So at the risk of redundancy, here are the rules of […]
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Boycotting god: How to raise a well-behaved deity
01.14.05 | Permalink | 4 CommentsLeaves a Mark points out a recent interest in theodicy, linking to a Slate piece and a NYT editorial. In the NY Times piece, conservative columnist William Safire (of whom I am not a fan) writes a damn good sermon. He points out that if you read the real deal in the Bible, forlorn Job […]
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New lunchroom bullies
01.10.05 | Permalink | Comments Off on New lunchroom bulliesIncredible. Children in a Mississippi town who were behind on paying their lunch money had their food thrown away in front of them and then replaced by a PBJ. Phew. And to think that before this we didn’t know who the poor kids were! How rich! Now what was that line about the “least of […]
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Kinja wish
01.10.05 | Permalink | Comments Off on Kinja wishIf you’re a blog reader and you’re not using Kinja yet, you should start. Kinja is a free web-based service that lets you track updates to your favorite blogs (assuming they have RSS feeds, which most do) on one page. If you choose to make your Kinja digest public, other folks can see what’s new […]
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