The Village Voice has an extended look at last month’s World Transhumanist Association held at Yale. The author hits briefly on the Singularity, nanotech, and all of the rest of the transhumanist panapoly. But what attracted my attention was this quote from Bill McKibben, I go straight to the question of why on earth we…
July, 2003
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This weblog is rightly criticizing Washington Times columnist Jack Kelly for Kelly’s racist dig at Arabs, The North Vietnamese and their Viet Cong allies were bright, skilled, resourceful, well-led, and very brave. In Iraq, we’re fighting Arabs. Kelly is also one of many people who do not appear to understand commonly touted statistics about deaths…
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A couple months ago I wrote about installing Movable Type on my laptop to do some personal knowledge management. Movable Type might be a great weblogging tool, but it really didn’t work well for what I was trying to use (largely because it wasn’t designed to). So today I downloaded and installed SnipSnap, a Wiki/Weblog…
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In response to my previous post about problems with Buy Music, Greg Pierce points out this ArsTechnica article pointing out that BuyMusic.Com is even worse than I had originally thought. Apple did the smart thing and negotiated the same rights deal with the various companies it dealt with. On the one hand, this has meant…
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CNN has a story on the obvious way to route around the RIAA lawsuits against Napster, Kazaa, etc. — smaller, private file sharing networks. These private file-swapping networks have surfaced just as the music industry has been granted dozens of subpoenas seeking the names of those who trade copyrighted material on popular services such as…
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Apparently BuyMusic.Com is a less than enjoyable experience, First problem. After you buy an album, you need to download it. Sure, I knew that. What I didn’t know is that you have to download EACH SONG INDIVIDUALLY. One click per song. With two large sized albums with many songs on it – it can be…
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It’s people like L. Brent Bozell III who pretty much prevent me from ever characterizing myself as a conservative. Frankly I agree a lot of the time with the Media Research Center, but then Bozell goes off with stuff like this criticizing Bravo’s recent spate of homosexual-oriented programming, Such programming “may be acceptable for that…
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Update: After I wrote this, John Leo sent me a nice e-mail apologizing for not citing me. As I responded to him, this article was actually written semi-tongue-in-cheek. I realize that professional journalists don’t always have time to track down who was the first to point out this or that error. Henry Hanks sent me…
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This weekend Lisa and I went to the family reunion of my father’s family. Okay, family reunions probably aren’t that big of a deal to most people, but due to the odd circumstances that followed after my parents’ divorce, these were people I hadn’t seen in 25 years or so. Then out of the blue…
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A lot of weblogs are talking lately about a study originating out of Berkeley whose results are summed up by this ridiculous quote, Hitler, Mussolini, and former President Ronald Reagan were individuals, but all were right-wing conservatives because they preached a return to an idealized past and condoned inequality in some form. A lot of…