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August 31, 2009
Well, you knew that already. Anyway, here's something to read and fume about. Here in the island, things aren't great either. The inanely orchestrated coverage at the BBC leading up to the release of the Lockerbie criminal was/is breathtaking in...
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August 27, 2009
Category: Creative commons
A few links on the great Uruguayan writer. His latest book is called Mirrors, he explains why in this video, in a voice that makes one to listen to it far into the night. He is interviewed by Michael Silverblatt...
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August 19, 2009
Category: Prime Stream
You'll be docile when horizontal, apparently. So an insult won't move you to action that much when you are lying down. via NewScientist....
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August 17, 2009
Category: Creative commons
A celebration of human ingenuity through the life of Benjamin Franklin by Maira Kalman at And the Pursuit of Happiness....
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August 13, 2009
Category: Creative commons
From the preface of his Collected Fictions translated by Andrew Hurley. Reading is an activity subsequent to writing--more resigned, more civil, more intellectual. (1935) The learned doctors of the Great Vehicle teach us that the essential characteristic of the universe...
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August 11, 2009
Category: Prime Stream
From BBC News: The extra cost of providing security for the three people identified as allowing the death of Baby Peter could rise to £1m a year, a union has said. For those outside in UK, this is a heart-wrenching...
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August 4, 2009
Category: Prime Stream
There is, I must say, a rather unconventional article in New Scientist called Evolution's third replicator: Genes, memes, and now what? by Susan Blackmore about ... what's the word I am looking for...hmm.. Human Culture + Technology. Susan suggests that...
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