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Las Vegas: Love it or Loathe it?

Recently, I’ve been feeling the urge to visit Las Vegas again. What do you think of the city of lights? I have a few thoughts… (continued)

9:42 pm April 13th, 2005 | Paradoxdruid | Only 1 Comment |
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“WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE IS TRUE EVEN THOUGH YOU CANNOT PROVE IT?”

This is a question that was asked of a fairly impressive number of different scientists and their answers are at www.edge.org.

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1:34 pm January 8th, 2005 | mcmillan | 19 Comments, already |
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Expressing my Taoist, monist view

A while ago, back when the forum was the main attraction on my website, I tried to “do a little song and dance” articulating my monist belief about the nature of the universe. Since there hasn’t been a post in a few days, I figure I can pull it out, try to clean it up, and recycle it again, so that I have it on file on my new website design.

Basically, I think everything is one. (continued)

12:24 am August 17th, 2004 | Paradoxdruid | 13 Comments, already |
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Ah, the blanks of Summer

Today is my last full day living in Colorado for a long time (perhaps forever). I’m not feeling mopey or anything, but I occasionally get these strangely nostalgic flashes of “this is the last time you’ll see ____” as I’m walking around. Man, those were some great blanks. ;-) Not that I have much time to walk around today. (continued)

10:26 am August 3rd, 2004 | Paradoxdruid | No Comments yet |
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Time for Change

Obama has outlined a strategy for America, in great depth. Read all about Change.gov!

6 Nov 08 | No Comments |

Free Rice

Okay, I’ll admit that it’s entirely possible that I am the last person to learn about this website*, but it’s really addictive.  It’s a game that tests your vocabulary.  Each time you get a word’s meaning correct, 20 grains of rice are donated to the UN World Program.  So, give Free Rice a whirl.  I bet you’ll have fun and you’ll get to help make strides toward ending hunger.

 *I heard about it forever ago, I just never actually looked at it.

18 Jul 08 | No Comments |

Security Cam Music Video

This band decided they didn’t have money to make a video, so they set up in public places in view of security cameras, then asked to get the footage from the people.

Pretty cool results, though a little creepy to think how much these cameras are around.

A news story about it is here

12 May 08 | 1 Comment |

Some Frogs and Toads are just weird…

Thanks to one of my favorites blogs, Zooillogix, I recently got to see toads giving live birth from their back and frogs without lungs. (continued)

12 Apr 08 | 1 Comment |

20% of Scientists use “Cognition Enhancement” Drugs

According to a recent anonymous poll in Nature magazine. Further commentary at WebMD. Crazy, huh?

10 Apr 08 | No Comments |

Are you paying Attention?

Well?

20 Mar 08 | 3 Comments |

Trunk Monkey!

Trunk Monkey. Yes this is exactly what you think it is (check out ep 4 theft retrieval system)

10 Mar 08 | No Comments |

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