December 2011
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Dec 31st
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Dec 31st
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Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
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Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
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“Die trying” is the proudest human thing.”
– Robert Heinlein Amen.
Dec 29th
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“Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless;...”
– John Ruskin
Dec 27th
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Dec 27th
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Dec 27th
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Dec 25th
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Dec 25th
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“I don’t know where I would be today if my teachers’ job security was based on...”
– Matt Damon speaking to those attending the Save Our Schools march on the Ellipse near the White House
Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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"Unhearing on AI Rights." →
Jeph Jacques is an amazing comic writer, as evidenced by this fictional speech he penned on the rights of AI beings. I disagree with his premise, but I have to admire his commitment to the story to provide such a strong background for comic 2085 (in the source link.) Bravo, Jeph! Bravo.
Dec 23rd
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Dec 23rd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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Musings On Reading
Reading Futility Closet , I was somewhat resentful to read these two quotes “A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.” — Samuel Johnson “Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.” — Plato because I think any sort of knowledge gained can be useful, and things learned by compulsion are no less useful...
Dec 22nd
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Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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Dec 20th
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“I am one of the searchers. There are, I believe, millions of us. We are not...”
– James Kavanaugh
Dec 20th
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Dec 19th
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Dec 19th
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Dec 19th
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Dec 18th
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Dec 18th
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Dec 16th
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“You and I who still enjoy fairy tales have less reason to wish actual childhood...”
– Letters to an American Lady (1953)
Dec 16th
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Dec 15th
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Dec 15th
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Dec 15th
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Dec 14th
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Dec 14th
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