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Connecting

Touching the Untouchable

At what level of discourse will I step over the boundary of comfort? I came close with the postings on anger, but thankfully, we were able to box these in with an objectively intellectual viewpoint that pushed the topic safely and correctly back into manageable bounds. So now, let us up the ante on human […]

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People Weblogging

Dorothea revealed

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Dorothea takes a moment and tells the world about herself, her husband, and her goth kitties in a new Frank Paynter interview, a blogging piece well worth the read. Among the broad range of subjects covered in the interview was Dorothea’s experience with gaming and role playing, as well as her academic […]

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Political

How can we not be angry?

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Today was not supposed to be an ‘angry’ day. I thought we’d covered the subject and were ready to move on. But then I checked the news. I read that the “earth is dying” (mentioned in previous weblog posting). And then I read: Bush rejected comparisons between the transactions that masked […]

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Environment

Will the last person leaving the Earth, please turn off the Sun

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. It’s difficult to shrug off stories that have the eye-catching title of Earth ‘will expire by 2050’. It’s also difficult to ignore statements such as the following: The report, based on scientific data from across the world, reveals that more than a third of the natural world has been destroyed by […]

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Burningbird

Tech hassles III

I was able to get a decent, but not a terrific, deal from Interland, on an upgrade to my FreeBSD server. Moving on with development of ThreadNeedle. Work is still proceeding on trying to re-incorporate categories back into this weblog through Movable Type. Mena’s being kind enough to take a look at configuration to see […]