Art, Like Morality
…and then deliberately crossing it! Found this over at Random Vandal
Things I need to tell my teenaged daughters about boys
http://www.everything2.com/e2node/Things%2520I%2520need%2520to%2520tell%2520my%2520teenaged%2520daughters%2520about%2520boys Great words of advise for those of us who have daughters.
Inmate files restraining order against Grand Theft Auto
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=187228 From the page: “Defendants put me in prison. I face imminent danger from violent inmates who played Grand Theft Auto who will knock me out and take my gold Jesus cross.” He really did say that.
A Simple Code for Posting on the Web
http://asimplecode.com/ The Dude abides.
“My father was a Freethinker, but died when I was only three years old. Wishing me to be bought up without superstition he appointed two Freethinkers as my guardians. The Courts, however, set aside his will, and had me educated in the Christian faith. I am afraid the result was disappointing, but that was not the fault of the law.
“Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.” -William Blake That quote was sent to me by my husband. Brainy AND romantic!
No sin but innocence
http://danharlow.com/?page_id=853 From the page: “I count religion but a childish toy and hold there is no sin but innocence.”
Women in tech…
http://blogher.org/node/17474 From the page: “I have often removed myself from the conversation on sites that border on being misogynistic. Reading Slashdot comments, for example, sometimes makes me ill. I have written before about misogyny in the tech world. The attacks on Sierra are an extreme example, but I can tell you that many women experience much more subtle ‘attacks’ as
theHippy: Gaia: The balance between Imagination and Knowledge
http://two-old-hippies.blogspot.com/2007/05/gaia-balance-between-imagination-and.html From the page: “With a hippy’s intuitive generalist overview, however, it’s tempting to think that Gaia is not a freak of nature, rather, it is the freak called nature. Gaia is an improbable congruence of physical imperatives, and life as we know it has survived under Its mantle long enough to invent qwerty keyboards and write this observation down.”
Evolution quote on Starbucks cup
Link “Evolution as described by Charles Darwin is a scientific theory, abundantly reconfirmed, explaining physical phenomena by physical causes. Intelligent Design is a faith-based initiative in rhetorical argument. Should we teach I.D. in America’s public schools? Yes, let’s do — not as science, but alongside other spiritual beliefs, such as Islam, Zoroastrianism ans the Hindu idea that Earth rests on
“If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is
300 Brings History to Bloody Life
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,72775-0.html Snyder: That’s the crazy part. We learned how to create a pristine image and now we are working to fuck it up again. Part of the technology now is used to make it look like you didn’t use the technology.
Fractal Wrongness
Fractal wrongness: The state of being wrong at every conceivable scale of resolution. That is, from a distance, a fractally wrong person's worldview is incorrect; and furthermore, if you zoom in on any small part of that person's worldview, that part is just as wrong as the whole worldview. Debating with a person who is fractally wrong leads to infinite