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Ding dong, the witch is dead.
Pardon the bit of academic-obsession I’m letting show.
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Lunch linkage
krustukles: An antidote to the geek girl calendar » "CALL FOR PAPERS: She’s Such A Geek: An Anthology by and for Women Obsessed with Computers, Science, Comic Books,Gaming, Spaceships, and Revolution" Agent or Program? » “Here we propose a formal definition of an autonomous agent which clearly distinguishes a software agent from just any program.”
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Lunch linkage
Steve Don’t Eat It! – Silkworm Pupas » “But what caught me off guard was the crunchy cocoon. Silk my ass. This was like chewing on tiny bones. The good news is I was immediately distracted by the unexpected squirt of briny liquid that shot out into my mouth. A little heads up would have been nice. (Am I right, ladies?)” In-fucking-deed. Skinny Daily Post: Out of the closet » Yes, another one from SDP: “Weight loss is both immensely personal and inescabably public. Like it or not, no matter how indepent we are, we inevitably find ourselves in situations where our desire for healthy eating creates a certain disruption…
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Angry rant of the evening: Evolution debates
I found myself researching something on evolution tonight in order to continue a discussion with WO that came up this weekend, and I found myself infuriated that I’d let myself become involved in another shitty evolution vs. intelligent design discussion. Pardon the poor grammar, but I’m a bit worked up. Would you care to know why I stringently dislike debates about evolution and intelligent design? Because it’s all dogma. People quote that evolution is a “a fact and a theory”–this is a direct quote from Talk Origins–when I think most quasi-educated folk know good and well that no theory is ever a fact. It’s all dogma, and it’s the same…
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Eating my words: Bjork
I’ve never been much of a fan of Bjork. Her music has always tended to sound like someone took a sweet, friendly, normally quiet cat and strung it up with dental floss by the pads of its paws in a chimney while the fire below it built to a nice and roasty heat. Tonight, though, a DJ on Dublab (Chicken George) mixed a track that I immediately knew to be Bjork (I mean, honestly, the woman is very distinctive) that has made me eat my words. It’s a track called “I Miss You”, and although she still makes her characteristic odd sounds, the song is amazing, with a nice little…