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I do, however, score 60% on the Dean Support-o-Meter.

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01:27:44 AM, Monday 19 January 2004

These 9 drawings were done by an artist under the influence of LSD —part of a test conducted by the US government during it’s dalliance with psychotomimetic drugs in the late 1950’s. The artist was given a dose of LSD 25 and free access to an activity box full of crayons and pencils. His subject is the medico that jabbed him.
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01:01:29 AM, Monday 19 January 2004

Feel The Fear! _
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12:58:05 AM, Monday 19 January 2004

The Guardian: A Belgian cardinal who is among the leading candidates to succeed Pope John Paul yesterday broke the Roman Catholic church's taboo on the use of condoms, declaring that, in certain circumstances, they should be used to prevent the spread of Aids. _
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04:29:20 PM, Friday 16 January 2004

I AM ABOUT TO COMMIT A CRIME AGAINST GOD AND MAN STOP _
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08:46:32 PM, Thursday 15 January 2004

Chomsky: There is a trap which is deeply rooted in the intellectual culture, and we have to avoid it. The trap is the doctrine that I sometimes call the doctrine of change of course. It's a doctrine that's invoked every two or three years in the United States. The content of the doctrine is yes, in the past, we did some wrong things because of our innocence or out of inadvertence, but now that's all over, so we can't not waste any more time on this boring, stale stuff, which incidentally we suppressed and denied while it was happening, but must now be effaced from history as we march forward to a glorious future. And if you look, it is literally every two or three years that the doctrine is invoked. _
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07:15:32 PM, Thursday 15 January 2004

It seems I've gone through sort of a flip-flop on Howard Dean lately (though without very strong feelings about the man either before or after). Previously, I thought something like "Well, I don't particularly like his politics, but he may actually be a bit better than Clinton, and he's probably our best hope for beating Bush, so I guess I can support him." But now, my thoughts are more "Huh, he's basically a Clinton-style conservative Democrat, only northeastern instead of southern, and he doesn't really seem to be any more electable than the other frontrunners, or any more progressive, and indeed, it really looks like the main thing he has to offer is that he's popular. So why should I support him as the Democratic candidate? Fuck 'im. I'm already probably going to have to grit my teeth and vote for him in the general election--why do that twice if I don't have to?" So yeah, now I'm leaning towards Kucinich. Or possibly Al Sharpton, if I'm feeling wacky. _
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05:50:33 PM, Thursday 15 January 2004

If you're feeling space geeky, I recommend this video of how the Mars rover works. _
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05:31:24 PM, Thursday 15 January 2004

I sort of wonder if I should be interested in Syncato, but at this point I have so many ideas about How A Weblogging System Should Work that I'm not sure I can be satisfied with anything but my own program. _
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08:05:01 PM, Monday 12 January 2004

The Ruby programming language may be about to get a lot more interesting to me. _
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07:29:25 PM, Monday 12 January 2004

A while ago, Keith Devens pointed out a Perl module, Template::Extract, that attempts to read the data out of a web page based on the template that was used to build the page (or on your reconstruction of that template). Potentially pretty cool. I wonder if there's anything like that for Python. _
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07:13:17 PM, Monday 12 January 2004

Mostly I don't really have much use for Daniel Dennett, but his philosophical lexicon delights me.

The conclusions drawn from Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle are not only on average chomskier than those drawn from Godel's theorem; most of them are downright merleau-ponty.

quintify, v. To give a popular and oversimplifying account of a philosophical problem. (a) quintifying in opaque contexts: writing an article on Wittgenstein for the Sunday papers; (b) existential quintifier: Walter Kaufmann; (c) universal quintifier: Mortimer Adler. _
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06:19:22 PM, Monday 12 January 2004

The Guardian: Britain's biggest holiday flight operator, Thomas Cook Airlines, has become the first carrier to display open dissent to the government's new security requirements by refusing to carry sky marshals on flights to the US. _
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03:52:30 PM, Thursday 8 January 2004

Fun article on nonlethal weapons. _
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03:25:14 PM, Thursday 8 January 2004

In principle, IndyMedia seems like a great idea, but there's got to be some better way to filter it. _
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03:20:47 PM, Thursday 8 January 2004

Watch the military-industrial complex in action, every business day at 5 pm. _
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03:18:36 PM, Thursday 8 January 2004

I've just been tinkering around with my blogroll. I haven't actually stopped linking to anything (except Brown Hen, for obvious reasons), but I've switched to reading several more sites in the aggregator. _
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02:55:24 PM, Thursday 8 January 2004

Every year, the San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band puts on The Dance-Along Nutcracker. _
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08:40:04 PM, Wednesday 7 January 2004

OS X has a convenient built-in way of taking screenshots, but it takes them in PDF format. It's so fucking useless. _
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05:36:42 PM, Wednesday 7 January 2004

Note: When a definite number, more than one, is spoken of, the plural form peas is used; as, the pod contained nine peas; but, in a collective sense, the form pease is preferred; as, a bushel of pease; they had pease at dinner. This distinction is not always preserved, the form peas being used in both senses. _
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04:47:58 PM, Wednesday 7 January 2004

m14m.net is getting ready to move to its new home. While I try to get it moved over, you can watch the progress on dev.m14m.net. _
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03:31:22 PM, Wednesday 7 January 2004

The Web Developer extensions for Mozilla and Firebird look interesting enough to make me consider switching browsers, at least for testing purposes. _
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02:30:17 PM, Wednesday 7 January 2004

Workers at Borders in Ann Arbor ended their strike [see also: Borders Readers United, beginning of strike] on December 30th, and will vote on a proposed contract some time this month, so the boycott of Borders, Amazon, and Waldenbooks is over. Personally, I would still urge you to go first to your local used bookstore or independent new bookstore, and to avoid Amazon.com as a general rule, but I must admit I'm relieved to once again be able to shop at the one store in Santa Rosa with a decent selection of computer books._
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02:00:30 PM, Wednesday 7 January 2004

I often notice curious patterns through the One Year Ago link on my blog. For example. last year at this time, I linked to another classic essay that (like Orwell on Gandhi) I first encountered in the Oxford Book of Essays [review]. _
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01:53:16 PM, Wednesday 7 January 2004

He will also tell you how to make tea. And all of it, of course, is delicious to read, as might be expected from a man who thought bad prose the first step on the road to tyranny. _
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08:31:46 PM, Tuesday 6 January 2004

I have just re-read Orwell's "Reflections on Gandhi", and I recommend it to those of you who think about politics at all. Orwell's reaction to Gandhi reveals much about both men, and helps to remedy the blandly iconic status they hold today. It also reveals much about the political questions both of them faced, which are not, after all, so different from the ones we face today. _
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08:29:36 PM, Tuesday 6 January 2004

Language Log: Exclusive: God uses like as a hedge _
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08:36:19 PM, Saturday 3 January 2004

Python Documentation: These methods do not make it possible to retrieve the return code from the child processes. The only way to control the input and output streams and also retrieve the return codes is to use the Popen3 and Popen4 classes from the popen2 module; these are only available on Unix.

So, while os.popen waits for the process to finish executing, os.popen2 through os.popen4 do not. This explains some problems I was having. I have fixed them by using the Popen4 class instead of the os.popen4 function. Also note that, if you use Popen4.wait(), you need to call Popen4.tochild.close() first. I’m pretty sure.

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08:02:15 PM, Saturday 3 January 2004

This is a test.

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07:44:18 PM, Saturday 3 January 2004

This is a test.

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07:42:58 PM, Saturday 3 January 2004

The Professor!

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07:16:25 PM, Saturday 3 January 2004

Most adorable three year old North Korean xylophone prodigy ever.

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05:55:15 PM, Saturday 3 January 2004

Well now, that’s an uncomfortable glimpse at my fate.

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12:33:18 AM, Friday 2 January 2004

O.o.C.Q.o.t.D.: i mean, i’ve nothing against chemical imbalances. they’ve gotten me where i am today.

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09:57:48 PM, Wednesday 31 December 2004

Also, Julia and I will be hosting a New Year’s AIM chat tonight. Come! Chat! Be amused!

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06:25:31 PM, Wednesday 31 December 2004

This New Year’s Eve, I offer you all a piece of advice that I once read in a driver’s ed textbook, in a discussion of how to pack things into your car safely: “Do not drive a car so loaded that you cannot see ahead or to the sides.”

Words to live by.

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06:23:13 PM, Wednesday 31 December 2004

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