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Monthly Archives: January 2008
Too cool for a mere browser
30 January 2008 – 1:09 pm
Re: Real men don’t attack straw men
[Posted December 19, 2007 by corbet]
From: Richard Stallman
To: “Edd Barrett”
Subject: Re: Real men don’t attack straw men
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 16:37:06 -0500
Message-ID:
Cc: misc-AT-openbsd.org
Archive-link: Article, Thread
For personal reasons, I do not browse the web from my computer. (I
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Vancouver
30 January 2008 – 12:12 am
‘Vancouver was a part of the United States where the people were so clever that they never paid taxes to Washington’.
-Robert Heinlein, Time Enough For Love (p.30)
// The same could also be said of Toronto
Toronto Depictions
29 January 2008 – 9:09 pm
Circa 2003 depicting 2006
Circa 2004 depicting 2008
Circa 2007 depicting 2010 or 2011
Circa 2008 depicting 2011 or 2012
A Breif ReDiscription of Richard Rorty’s Philosophy
20 January 2008 – 1:31 pm
From the intro to Against Bosses, Against Oligarchies, by Derek Nystrom and Kent Puckett, Sept 1998:
The sort of intellectual Rorty prefers, then, is one who makes herself familiar with as many vocabularies and language games as possible by acquainting herself with as many novels and ethnographies as she can get her hands on. In doing [...]
MacBook Air
16 January 2008 – 7:21 pm
MacBook Air
“I heard through the grape vines that the Macbook Air designers upon the creation of the product called Steve and asked that he returned the time of their lives they wasted creating this laptop for his indulgence.”
A comment to the interview with Steve Jobs which appeared in yesterday’s NYT
Susan Sontag’s Workspace
16 January 2008 – 7:14 pm
Susan Sontag’s Workspace
From New York Times Magazine4 December 2005
Morgan vs. Ridley
13 January 2008 – 8:49 pm
Morgan vs. Ridley
A fuller consideration of the relationship between Matt Ridley’s Nature via Nurture and Richard Morgan’s Black Man: The selection from Nature via Nurture which inspired Richard Morgan to write Black Man (as described in the novel’s acknowledgment), from pages 34-35:
[Describing the domestication of foxes (selected for tameness and essentially turned into dogs) this [...]
Three Films January 2008
10 January 2008 – 11:36 pm
Two movies I have no plans to watch until they are well forgotten on DVD, if ever.
A) Juno
self-consciously cool people of any age drive me crazy
B) Cloverfield
viral marketing + monsters = a blatant attempt to get the attention of self-consciously cool people. See A
A movie I do plan on watching:
C) There will be blood
Early 20th [...]
Contrail Vanishing Point
7 January 2008 – 4:11 pm
Contrail Vanishing Point, Campbellton New Brunswick, Saturday 5 January 2008 12pm Ontaratime/1pm Maritime