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the god of design is the diminishing god of the diminishing gaps. -- alan dershowitz [ blasphemy: how the religious right is hijacking our d...

found this lovely bit in the national post [canadian printed simulation of fox news] christmas eve editorial "room for god" [i gla...

cory doctorow just posted a two and a half hour long reading of alice in wonderland . what a wonderful present for the end of 2007!

i finally had a chance to long-skim a copy of that new book attributed to antony flew . i was particularly interested in seeing how and wha...

encountered while visiting a link at vivtek.com 404 You step in the stream the water has moved on page not found

i just came across Tv's 2005 review of twisted network programming essentials by abe fettig. this is a textbook example of how to writ...

open source zealots don't mix well with real life. -- sam leffler [sane 2006] i think that to achieve true adulthood is to understand th...

charlie stross has an excellent assessment/critique of kindle: why i don't like amazon's kindle Do I think Kindle is destined to suc...

in a related note to my rather disappointing nawlins experience: i am very pleased to find that one of my favorite restaurants in new orlea...

pleasures: enchanted : amy adams is enchanting to say the least, and i think [seriously] deserves of an oscar nomination. movie has its mo...

yet another notch in the decline of ebay. this time, not gross fees, just gross idiocy with handwaving: Dear User: Unfortunately, access to ...

all very highly recommended. christopher hitchens, the portable atheist: essential readings for the nonbeliever bruce sterling, ascendancie...

sf author john scalzi has written a wonderful report on the creation museum. Imagine, if you will, a load of horseshit. And we’re not talk...

i have read just enough of roger scruton to know he is the kind of philosopher that gives the whole enterprise a bad name while providing so...

a trick is a clever idea that can be used once, while a technique is a trick that can be used at least twice. -- don knuth [ pre-fascicle 1a...

jonathan has responded to netapps idiocy, and what a sweet response that is: So later this week, we're going to use our defensive portf...

daniel dennett's appreciation of hofstadter's i'm a strange loop and minsky's the emotion machine dawkins's speech in ...

university of st michael's college in the university of toronto offers this amazingly magical course, delivered by an instructor with a...

jason rosenhouse deals with jerry fodor's latest missive on evolution, why pigs don't have wings . [dennett's fun and games in ...

the raven snored gently on top of his skull, counting dead sheep. -- terry pratchett [soul music] what answer will make socrates shut up? --...