Entries from December 2006

Saturday turns to a Sunday

Comments   2   Date Arrow  December 31, 2006 at 4:57pm   User  by Psybertron

Or, brain surgey with Bob Hoskins. Wow, it’s another three week gap no blog. So much planned to do over the seasonal break, but little of that accomplished, other than reading of course. Read the whole of Ian McEwan’s “Saturday“, pretty much during that one day following the sunrise on Saddam’s execution. Spookier though is [...]

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Rhetoric 1, 2 & 3

Comments   24   Date Arrow  December 8, 2006 at 11:48pm   User  by Psybertron

I posted about Wayne Booth previously , crossing paths with Pirsig and McKeon in Rhetoric at Chicago, and then again when he died last year. Came across this excellent Wayne Booth article today, via Wilf Berendsen on Friends of Wisdom. Interestingly Wilf was picking up on the cross-discipline university approach mentioned by John Spencer at Liverpool Uni [...]

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Make Love, Not War

Comments   2   Date Arrow  December 2, 2006 at 12:21pm   User  by Psybertron

A fantastic article from New Scientist, via Sam (via “Peak Oil” action network). It is exactly my thinking …. not just in not ignoring non-human socio-cultural-intelligence … Sam brought it to my attention, because in MoQ circles, I am always warning that socio-cultural-intelligence (layers 3 and 4 of the MoQ) are not necessarily restricted to humans, [...]

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