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March 2007

hotmail is for n00bs.

An HR department looking for someone with internet experience dumped emails from candidates with Hotmail email addresses because “you can’t pretend being an internet expert and use a Hotmail account at the same time.”

from kottke 

Mar 28, 2007
Mar 27, 2007
“Evidence that Japanese animators are reaching for the moon,
while most of their American counterparts remain stuck in
the kiddie sandbox.”
— Manohla Dargis on Satoshi Kon’s Paprika, The New York Times.
Mar 26, 2007
Mar 23, 2007
“So it is no small victory for smart sex when, in handing down his decision, U.S. District Judge Lowell Reed, veritably channeling the outcry of years of online sex media makers, offers that…

Perhaps we do the minors of this country harm if First Amendment protections, which they will with age inherit fully, are chipped away in the name of their protection.

That’s right — someone, somewhere in the halls of government in America admits that maybe, ignorance, fear, and control are more dangerous than making space for a culture to share a conversation on sex. Sex, and not just porn. Sex, and not just disease. Sex, and not just marriage. Sex, no matter how old you are, hot you are, or how moral you are, or your lawmakers wish you to be.”
—melissa gira, on the Child Online Protection Act ruling.
Mar 23, 2007
Mar 22, 2007
Mar 22, 2007
sociability

 Sociality is comprised of four behaviors:

empathy
the ability to learn and follow social rules
reciprocity
peacemaking

  Another interesting part of this article is the debate between philosophers and biologists on the origin of morality.

Philosophers generally think it begins with conscious reasoning while biologists lean toward emotions. 

Mar 22, 2007
“
  • Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
  • Never use a long word where a short one will do.
  • If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.
  • Never use the passive where you can use the active.
  • Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
  • Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.
”
—George Orwell
Politics and the English Language
Mar 22, 20071 note
Mar 22, 2007
“If scientific analysis were conclusively to demonstrate certain claims of Buddhism to be false, then we must accept the findings of science and abandon those claims.” —The 14th Dalai Lama
The Universe in a Single Atom - The Convergence of Science and Spirituality
Mar 21, 2007
Mar 21, 2007

Nicely detailed article on the genre.

Film noir - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mar 21, 2007
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