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The Daily Mail has a feature on How the world really shapes up with images of maps where land mass of countries has been distorted to show things like population, alcohol consumption, or death by war or violence. (via Strange Maps)

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From the online version of Samuel Pepys’ Diary:
I lay close to my wife, being full of disorder and grief for my brother that I could not sleep nor wake with satisfaction, at last I slept till 5 or 6 o’clock.

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“Sayings of the Jewish Buddhist”
Be here now.
Be someplace else later.
Is that so complicated?
Tip of the hat to Noli Irritare Leones.

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Longer excerpts of the interviews I conducted with members of the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Second Life have been published as a companion to the story I wrote. The excerpts include one interview that was cut from the edited story.

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Unless something unusual occured, as of yesterday I am no longer a member of the Religious Society of Friends. Here’s the letter I sent to my meeting:
Dear Friends,
This letter is to let you know of my decision to resign my membership in Beacon Hill Friends Meeting. I have not, for some time, been acting as [...]

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