Computing’s environmental impact
We really should think more about how advancing technology impacts wildlife.
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We really should think more about how advancing technology impacts wildlife.
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[Warning in this litigious age: Humor ahead.] Those of us with artistic sensibilities often find it a challenge to communicate (and commune with) our revolutionary artistic credos using totally inadequate bourgeois concepts. So my comrade in arms, George Plumley, sent me a very helpful link: The Market-O-Matic (1.0) [fine arts version]. The results are in.
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My son and I made up a word-play joke for the season: Question: What do you call a ghost with bad manners? Answer: Eerie-tating. (Hilarious, especially if you’re a five-year-old.)
Wow, science and technology really can solve all philosophical problems. More Savage Chickens by Canadian cartoonist Doug Savage.
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I seem to be hearing more jarring language than usual. The major recent ear offenders have been pronouns in relational contexts: Is she taller than me? On the test, he got a higher score than me. Egad. One should say: Is she taller than I [am]? On the test, he got a higher score than
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Just back from a trip that took me to Texas and Oklahoma. I saw this sign along a highway a little across the OK border. “Steve,” the sign said to me, “you’re not in Illinois anymore.” So I took a tourist memento picture. It turns out that they are not worried about what weirdos might
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Get thy reeky hide hither, sirrah, and desist with the pewling — beslubbering puttock thou oft art. (Via John Enright: no mammering lewdster he.)
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I am a member of an oppressed minority. I have known this for a long time, but recently came across a smoking gun — or at least a smoldering gun — irrefutable evidence of the calloused underbelly of our culture’s indifference to those who are different. Click on this image for the full size to