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Diversity

The new Catholic Inquisition

The first of the new Catholic Inquisitions is happening in St. Louis today. Many people in this community, and that includes many Catholics, have been saddened and disillusioned by this, the Church’s new witch hunt. Personally, I think this will hasten the end of the Catholic Church in modern times–all thanks to the appointment of a homophobic […]

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Technology

Remix RSS Podcast

Roland Tanglao has posted a link to his “Remixing RSS” presentation, including podcast that he gave at the Vancouver Web 2.0 conference. He’ll also be presenting this at XML 2005 this November in my neck of the woods. He’ll be presenting Tuesday. Looking over the schedule that’s a pretty impressive lineup of speakers and discussions.

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Stuff

Sleepless in St. Lou

I’m not sure why but every change of the season I usually have one restless night where I don’t get any sleep and last night was it for Fall. I did have a couple of very good books to read, and that doesn’t help — you don’t want to put them down, and next thing […]

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Media

Toasters

Spoiler alert: This post discusses the last episode of Battlestar Galactica, aired Friday night, in detail. Battlestar Galactica features several characters that are Cylons, though they look human. Most of the Cylon characters in re-occurring roles are women, specifically Boomer and Number Six. There are many duplications of each character, which can lead to some […]

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Just Shelley

Homesick

Loren and his wife, Leslie returned from a 4 day holiday to the ocean, bringing back wonderful pictures and a story of their adventures. It was lovely to read. I was working on another post when I read his post and it stopped me, cold, with such a feeling of homesickness.   I grew up in […]