Category: Miscellany
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Get your facts straight
I’m getting tired of these “anti-blog screed so please, bloggers, all link to me” pseudcontrarian protobacklash articles. Most of them are as glib and boring as the worst blogs and they don’t tend to even get the facts right. For example in, Blog eats blog, the author talks about ETCon and A List bloggers, writing…
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Near-total eclipse
Alerted to tonight’s lunar eclipse, B and I started looking outside around 8:40 pm hoping it wouldn’t be too hazy to see the moon clearly. It came up looking kind of vague, not nearly light enough to register on my camera lens, but after about 10 or 20 minutes the croissant edge got much brighter…
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Conceptual writing collection
The always-delightful Ubuweb site has assembled an anthology of conceptual writing. [via A.P. Crumlish]
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Ten years of public blather
Today marks the tenth anniversary of my first post to Usenet (May 11, 1993). I actually posted four times that day, all to rec.music.gdead. None of the posts are especially memorable (though one gives a fair idea of my other favorite bands of that time), but I still find it noteworthy to mark the passing…
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Psychedelics reconsidered. John Horgan makes
Psychedelics reconsidered. John Horgan makes the case for legalizing entheogens (psychedelic drugs) in Slate.
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Product placement on the news
Jeff Green exposes how some companies pay to have their products mentioned on the TV news.