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01/05/08 // Link:
Woolgathering… My friend Lee just started blogging. If you’re looking for “well-fed white guy stuff” (his words not mine, but come to think of it that’s basically what you’re getting here too so you must like it) check out Woolgathering, looks …continue reading »
08/14/07 // Link:
South Park Creators Animate Talks by Alan Watts Apparently Trey Parker was at least partly raised as a Buddhist, which, in this country, when Parker was young, meant encountering the work of Alan Watts. Years later, Parker and Matt Stone decided to do some animation for some of …continue reading »
06/18/07 // Link:
The Power of Yes: A Simple Way to Get More Out of Life From Get Rich Slowly: “For much of my adult life I’ve been shackled by fear. I’ve been afraid to try new things, afraid to meet new people, afraid of doing anything that might lead to failure. This fear confined me …continue reading »
05/24/07 // Link:
The Thorny Path to Enlightenment An interesting look at Buddhism and martial arts that ran in the San Francisco Chronicle a couple weeks back. “Legend says that more than 1,500 years ago, an Indian monk named Bodhidharma sat meditating before a wall for nine years …continue reading »
03/27/07 // Link:
The fictions of Foucault’s scholarship The Times Online has a look at couple of new books on Foucault. Say what you will, the man was brilliant, erudite and most definitely influenced twentieth century thought in some profound ways.continue reading »
02/06/07 // Link:
Language, Truth And Wine - New English Review “Wine is always described as being like something else. This is appealingly post modern. If a chardonnay tastes a bit like a peach, what then does the peach taste like? A chardonnay? And if so, what does either taste like? …continue reading »
01/12/07 // Link:
A Selection of Obscure Robert Anton Wilson Essays I was prompted by yesterday?s news of the passing of RAW to scan the pieces he wrote for his 1999 column on GettingIt.com, the progenitor of this webzine. It was a casual act, under the assumption that they would be …continue reading »
10/02/06 // Link:
Boing Boing: Gilberto Gil slams WIPO “Tropicalismo legend Gilberto Gil, now serving as the Brazilian Minister of Culture, excoriated the UN’s World Intellectual Property Organization this week. He told WIPO that its fundamental reason for existence needed to be rexamined, now that knowledge-goods have become so …continue reading »
08/17/06 // Link:
A Nation Divided Over Piracy Part two of Wired’s article on Sweden’s Pirate Bay/Pirate Party. I wonder if, with the popularity of Pirates of the Caribbean, some unwitting folks will find themselves googled off into previously uncharted philosophical waters.continue reading »
08/16/06 // Link:
Wired News: Secrets of the Pirate Bay Excellant article on the folks behind Pirate Bay the popular torrent tracking site (part one of two). And yes I do think copyright laws are outdated, over-restrictive and need to be rewritten.continue reading »
08/16/06 // Link:
Blood on the tracks “David Hume wrote that reason is a ‘slave to the emotions.’ But new research suggests that in our moral decision-making, reason and emotion duke it out within the mind.” And no I didn’t link to it just because it has …continue reading »
08/02/06 // Link:
Baudrillard to appear at London art fair The controversial French writer Jean Baudrillard will speak at the Frieze art fair on October 14, in conversation with the literary theorist Sylvare Lotringer.continue reading »
08/01/06 // Link:
What liberal country should I move to? A writer asks metafilter a question I myself have pondered many time as I watch the U.S. continue to make poor decisions, curtail civil liberties and otherwise behave like an arrogant child.continue reading »
07/23/06 // Link:
95 Theses of Geek Activism Some good ideas. Some pie-in-the-sky idealism, but overall a very solid set of theses.continue reading »
06/18/06 // Link:
Boing Boing: Psychology of bad probability estimation: why lottos and terrorists matter it explains why we’re socially willing to commit nigh-infinite social resources to fighting terrorism, though statistically, terrorist attacks almost never happen; though we barely lift a finger to help save people from routine traffic accidentscontinue reading »

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