Random Thoughts
- Sticks and Stones May Break Your Bones, But Words Will Really Put You In Trouble
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That is what Hamza Kashgari, a 23 years old reporter and poet from Saudi Arabia, is realizing the hard way. He used twitter to write a poetic "dialogue" with prophet Muhammad, and this was enough to get him condemned to death by the salafi sheikh ...
Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Feb 11 2012 - 5:40pm
- Eat Free Pancakes- Help Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals
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Good news for flapjack junkies. For 15 hours on February 28th, you can get some free pancakes at IHOP and raise some money for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. It's National Pancake Day! ...
Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Feb 15 2012 - 4:32pm
- An Ode To Venus
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"To her who appears in the sky to her who appears in the sky I want to address my greeting to the hierodule who appears in the sky I want to address my greeting to the great queen of heaven, Inanna [ancient Sumerian name for Venus] I want ...
Article - Oliver Knevitt - Mar 2 2012 - 9:28am
- 5 Tips To Survive The Upcoming Ice Age
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Since spot weather events are once again proof of global warming, reversing the trend of 2007 to 2011 when we were told that local weather was not evidence against global warming, it's time to think about the upcoming Ice Age- because we are having a ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 29 2012 - 4:30am
- When Children Grieve
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We grieve in our own ways and in our own time. Some of us push the losses into the dusty recesses of our mind and refuse to go there. Some of us cannot and remain in the immediacy of the loss, continually bombarded with it so that we are sucker punched thr ...
Blog Post - Kim Wombles - Mar 3 2012 - 12:33pm
- Assuage Your Liberal Guilt With An Eco-Friendly SuperYacht
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Let's be honest, if you are a Republican, you don't care about the environment because you received your own oil well when you registered to vote. And you like vampire babies. So you do not care about the emissions of your yacht. But if you are ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 9 2012 - 2:45pm
- The Move I Did Not Find
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There is nothing like computer-assisted post-mortem analysis of your chess games to get you back to reality about the potential of your brain: the computer sees so much more than you do, and so much quicker, that you can't help throwing your hands up ...
Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 19 2012 - 8:21am
- Saturday Morning Conundrums on Support and Opposition for Autism Organizations
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The sounds of mowers (ours among the others) can be heard from where I sit inside in my recliner, hiding behind my laptop, trying to ignore the chaos that surrounds me. The kids have gone quiet in their rooms; I can no longer hear peals of laughter, squeal ...
Blog Post - Kim Wombles - Mar 24 2012 - 11:53am
- Science 2.0 at Being Human
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The Being Human conference was held yesterday, March 24th, at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. Part of its description is " insights from science and philosophy shed new light on the processes of human experience – the how of feeling, thinkin ...
Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Mar 25 2012 - 4:09pm
- It's Gerhard's Hat Day
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I got a private message from Gerhard Adam which went " I'm getting used to being called a moron, etc. but why do they have to pick on the cowboy hat?" Why indeed? Hats used to be cool but they don't even wear them on "Mad Men&quo ...
Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Apr 3 2012 - 4:37pm
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