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A Map for Saturday
Don’t watch this documentary unless you are ready to quit your job. It’s about the joys and woes of long-term traveling. It’s impossible to watch this fun film and not confront the fact that you are here instead of there, out on the road, soaking up the mysteries of the world, with all-you-can-eat $3 dinners …
Quicker references with Google Scholar
This post is an ode to Google Scholar (GS). GS has a major advantage against expensive institution only academic search engines in that is free, which makes services indispensable to independent scholars wishing to get some access to research literature when they don’t have an institutional subscription. However, even though I personally have institutional access …
Be On The Lookout
Be On The Lookout
Bruce Willis, philosopher
FROM the New York Times website: Correction: June 28, 2007 Because of a transmission error, a film review yesterday about “Live Free or Die Hard” misstated the critic’s description of the plot. It should have been described as “logic-defying,” not “logic-defined.” Bruce Willis, philosopher
Eating Strategies
Do you eat the best thing first or save the best for last? Most people fall into one of these two categories and according to Brian Wansink’s Mindless Eating there is a simple economic explanation. The people who eat the best thing first tend to have grown up as younger children from large families. The …
The most absurd sentence I read today
I am proposing that the Son and the Father Singularities guided the worlds of the multiverse to concentrate the energy of the particles constituting Jesus in our universe into the Jesus of our universe. That is from Frank Tipler’s The Physics of Christianity. But wait, there is competition for the honor: If Jesus indeed rose …
Vim Quick Reference
A quick reference guide to the essential commands for using vim, organized by what you want to accomplish. [link] Vim Quick Reference
Top Ten Books Scored at MoCCA!
#10: BEM This is from Iceland by Matti Hagelbergia. The cover delivers, the inside is just as wonky! I love the fact that foreign Indy publishers and comic dealers are setting up at MoCCA. I hope MoCCA encourages more of this, it’s so very kewl. (click for a closer look) #9: ALINE THE ALIEN T. …
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