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The longer you wait, the farther away it gets
On September 15, 2006, I ordered a special 25th anniversary edition of one of my favorite books, Little, Big by John Crowley, which was then in preparation. (I even sprang for a copy of the numbered edition, I like this … Continue reading
Resist the present!
Not to mention the future: Online Literacy Is a Lesser Kind – ChronicleReview.com So let’s restrain the digitizing of all liberal-arts classrooms. More than that, given the tidal wave of technology in young people’s lives, let’s frame a number of … Continue reading
Comment period on DHS HIV travel restrictions
The GayCityNews has information on how to register a comment on proposed regulations concerning the entry of people who are HIV-positive into the United States (comments close December 6): Individuals who wish to protest the harsh new DHS regs on … Continue reading
Shoddy financial services
For convenience, I decided to use a CapitalOne Mastercard for my monthly fee from Linden Lab, the company behind Second Life. This morning, I got an email from Linden Lab saying my charge had been rejected. When I called CapitalOne, … Continue reading
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Home again
Whew! The annual General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association was rewarding (who knew so many people like the magazine?), spending Monday doing tourist things was fantastic (I’d like to be able to visit the classical Chinese garden on a … Continue reading
Role-playing
I’ve been having a lot of fun (and spending a lot of time) in Second Life. My original avatar, created on November 20, 2006, is Otenth Paderborn. Otenth has dabbled in land speculation, done a fair amount of shopping, and … Continue reading
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Mars promotes homophobia
I won’t link to their website, because that’s actually good for them, but the Snickers website has 1) a homophobic ad they aired during the Super Bowl; 2) three more even worse ads that they’re inviting people to vote on … Continue reading
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Goodbye Googlebombing!
Nice take-down of Google in the Guardians’ story, “Read me first” ‘Miserable failure’ Bush rehabilitated as Google steps in to defuse the Googlebombs The company is allowing concerns about its public image to influence the search results it dishes up. … Continue reading
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Bushit
Great article today in the New York Times: U.S. Says It Fears Detainee Abuse in Repatriation. A long-running effort by the Bush administration to send home many of the terror suspects held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, has been stymied in … Continue reading
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