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May 30, 2008

The perversity of religion

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I have been wondering. Do all religious explanations of Creation of the world necessarily involve narcissism and incest? If everything comes from god, Creation is an act of incest beginning with god's own self. Is that why Thomas Aquinas and...

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Pictures of uncontacted tribe in Brazilian forests

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At BBC....

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May 29, 2008

Today's Technology Dump

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Latest TWiT episode has Brewster Kahle speaking of archive.org and more. He is extremely persuasive. Must listen. Zattoo, a new IPTV service that serves free TV on the computer (low resolution, like youtube, but uses p2p like BBC's iPlayer) in...

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A Christmas Carol

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I recently read John Irving's Trying to save Piggy Sneed, a collection of essays and a few short stories. It's a good book to pick up if you haven't read Irving yet. Briefly, Irving's The World according to Garp...

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May 28, 2008

Frogs with Claws

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[Image Credit: David C. Blackburn] Who would have thought! However, the frogs have to really kick hard to unclaw - the claw comes out by piercing the frog's skin. A half-baked defense mechanism is what I think this is....

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Freeman Dyson's Views on Climate Change

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is bullshit, asserts RealClimate....

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May 23, 2008

$1 million Gates Award for Aravind Eye Care

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Announcement at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: SEATTLE -- In recognition of its groundbreaking work to prevent debilitating blindness and provide affordable, world-class eye care to the poor, the Aravind Eye Care System, based in Tamil Nadu, India, has...

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May 21, 2008

Scifi links

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Some that I visited recently. scifi.reddit io9 feministsf.org Helix...

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May 19, 2008

Lilies that fester

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They that have power to hurt and will do none, That do not do the thing they most do show, Who, moving others, are themselves as stone, Unmoved, cold, and to temptation slow, They rightly do inherit heaven's graces And...

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May 16, 2008

OLPC

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So, it's gonna get MickeySoft (that's a Wolf in Mickey make-up, run children, run). As, one Slashdot commenter put it, "This is like McDonalds bullying and lobbying to make the BigMac the preferred choice for UN's world food programme, and...

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