June 2009
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BBC NEWS | Giving up my iPod for a Walkman →
What happens when you give a 13 year-old a Walkman?
“It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the tape.”
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Feed My Inbox ~ RSS to Email ~ →
This is a great site to get automatic updates to the blogs you follow. Just put in the site, and your email address.
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John Gray on types of atheism
- Crunchy Con →
“New Atheism, in Gray’s view, is a cruder version of 19th-century Positivism, the philosophical position holding that the only real knowledge is knowledge acquired through the senses. It’s hard materialism, in other words, one that regards metaphysical discussion as simply a matter of subjective preference. In the 19th century, intellectuals generally believed that religion was a...
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the Reasons to get rid of the major record labels →
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No Recovery in Sight - NYTimes.com →
“The unemployment rate for males in April 2009 was 10 percent, versus only 7.2 percent for women, the largest absolute and relative gender gap in unemployment rates in the post-World War II period.”
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Anne: I’m not a lime, I’m just happy!
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Obama's example: Putting family first →
Putting family first? Sounds good to me.
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Op-Ed Columnist - Bullets and Barrels -... →
“There is only one precedent for an oil-funded autocrat in the Middle East being toppled by a people’s revolution, not by a military coup, and that was in … Iran.”
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Iran's Khamenei throws down hard line with... →
Kind of a letdown, but I don’t know thy I expected the ‘Supreme Ruler of Iran’ to be reasonable with the election.
Daring Fireball: Pixar Grants Girl’s Dying Wish... →
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In case you didn’t know
i heart enormous clocks.
– http://seriouslysoblessed.blogspot.com/2009/06/in-case-you-didnt-know.html
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Microsoft Stops Paying For Employees' iPhones →
Forcing them to use Windows Mobile? That’s just mean.
This is hearsay - but under conditions of a police state coup, we are best...
– From Andrew Sullivan. (via adamisacson)
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Op-Ed Columnist - Drugs Won the War - NYTimes.com →
“We’ve spent a trillion dollars prosecuting the war on drugs,” Norm Stamper, a former police chief of Seattle, told me. “What do we have to show for it? Drugs are more readily available, at lower prices and higher levels of potency. It’s a dismal failure.”
I agree.
I just came up with a great tourism slogan for Phoenix - “Less water, more hotter!”
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Nuclear blasts’ toll lingers for one man -... →
“And when the blast went off, Robertson saw something that has been emblazoned forever in his memory. He says he could see through his gloves and flesh all the way to his bones.”
Gotta’ Move on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
We went to the ‘free night’ at the Phoenix Children’s Science Museum last week. After waiting in line for 2 hours, we finally got in.
They had a DJ playing music by the dance floor, and Anne thought it was great.
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Talking Business - Poking Holes in a Theory on... →
An article about Mr. Grantham, a man who is skeptical of the ‘Efficient Market’ hypothesis.
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Obama Open to Plan Requiring Everyone to Get... →
Health Insurance for everyone! It’s time to celebrate!
Architect Turns Closet Into Home - WDSU New... →
You know it’s tough out there when architects are living in closets.