Archives: 2008 January

Links for jan 08 part II

Jan 31

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Striding Edge Information (please don’t die)
Citadel Hostel, Jerusalem (old city) the best hostel I’ve ever stayed in, for atmosphere
stopthewall.org the grassroots Palestinian Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign
mindhacks.com Pirahã: the world’s most controversial language
The Sustainable Communities Act becomes law (ie we’ve won, again!)
opendemocracy.net Annapolis and the “Jerusalem paradigm”
YouTube: Purity – New Model Army (1st Nemo Sandman Mash Up Video)
Milgram critiqued in The Psychologist Questioning the banality of evil
Stopthewall: Occupation soldiers threaten Jayyous village with collective punishment
OpenDemocracy interview about Gaza and how Hamas are viewed there

Quote #217

Jan 23

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But it is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts, and can never enjoy them because they are too tired

George Eliot, in Middlemarch

Quote #216

Jan 23

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it is in these acts called trivialisites that the seeds of joy are for ever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness – calling their denial knowledge

George Eliot, in Middlemarch (chapter 42)

Links for jan 08

Jan 13

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List of Open Source and Open Access advocates
NY Times article about dissociation in sports performance
In Praise of Error article by me in the CILASS student journal
Replicating the Milgram experiments (bottom line: obedience to authority still lethal)
Youtube: Russell Brand talks to the leader of the youth BNP (who thinks he is a condescending london media-type)
How I got a VPN working on Ubuntu (Gutsy Gibbon)
Bruce Schneier: The Value of Privacy
Solove, Daniel J., “‘I’ve Got Nothing to Hide’ and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy” . San Diego Law Review, Vol. 44, 2007 Orwell vs Kafka in conceptions on privacy
Human Universals… compiled by Donald E. Brown (..as published in The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker, 2002)
Salon.com: Circumcision in America
urbansurvivalproject.org ‘about creating a non-profit social network of young professional volunteers to help urban youth and vulnerable young adults survive life challenges’
city mine(d) ‘production house for urban intervention for and by the city’
arthouseparty

Quote #215

Jan 13

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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope

George Eliot, in Middlemarch (chapter 51 )

capitalism and growth

Jan 03

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Does anyone know if capitalism requires economic growth, and if so, why it does?

Quote #214: I think you have to work real hard on that one.

Jan 01

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It never goes away

Last line of The Two Jakes (reviewed here)

Links for dec 07

Jan 01

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Brains, Minds, and Texts, A Review of Mark Turner’s ‘The Literary Mind’ by Alan Richardson
Mark Thomas on the man BAE may have paid to spy on him
Online calculator for the Glasgow Coma Scale – we found a drunk on saturday night who was a 7 or 8.
the-spontaneity-shop.com – Performance and training Improvisation company
Youtube: Wierd Al Yankovich Palandromic Spoof of Subterrainian Homesick Blues
Pinker, S. & Bloom, P. (1990). Natural language and natural selection. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 13 (4): 707-784.
Zoe Williams on Christmas radio
Marxist Populism – Andrew Moravcsik in Prospect on some popular myths about Europe