Posts from — September 2007

Index: if-archive:

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Eric Rice, creator of what I think is one of the most powerful learning environments in second life (and also one very interesting experiments in fiction), points us to this handy archive of interactive fiction.

Why engineers yawn less than psychologists | Science | The Guardian:
Why engineers yawn less than psychologists

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well… ‘empathy’ and ’social awareness’ only matter when you are with other people i suspect.

Design Vitality > Photoshop Text Effects Round-Up: 51 Text Effect Tutorials Every Designer Should See :

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interesting set of font effects

http://lists.tmttlt.com/listinfo.cgi/softwareandculture-tmttlt.com is the url for the software and culture list

Empirical Legal Studies: Distribution of 2006 Starting Salaries: Best Graphic Chart of the Year:
Distribution of 2006 Starting Salaries: Best Graphic Chart of the Year

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this important graph has underneath it some of the best discussions of what one should consider when thinking about going to law school. Law school has become another form of a school of social service for far too many people. a social service degree is far more costly than the money you earn to pay it back, and law school is quickly becoming that way for the majority.

Books | Did Stalin’s killers liquidate Walter Benjamin?:
Did Stalin’s killers liquidate Walter Benjamin?

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They may have… but the real question is that without this suicide… would other theorist suicides have occurred or not. in other words, did the suicide of benjamin, make it more likely that later suicides of theorists occurred, or not. because I am of the persuasion that thinks prior suicides tend to lend wait to current considerations.

The Existentialist Cowboy: Billionaires For Bush Reveal How Bush Paid Off His Base and Stuck You with the Tab:
How Bush Paid Off His Base and Stuck You with the Tab

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go ahead and read this…

San Diego Metro News | SignOnSanDiego.com — Mom defends reaction to Iraqi passengers:
“I’m very sorry, but I’d do anything to protect my kids,” she said. “If people want to put me down, that’s their right.”

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and she would be racist, and afraid racist, but anyone who fears someone because of the color of their skin, their cultural habits and claims she is afraid for her children is just plain wrong. we saw this in the u.s. in the early 20th century, some people feared blacks, some feared enough to hate and kill people. it was xenophobic and racist then, it is now. this woman, who cares for her children, obviously did not for one instant think about the children of the men she was harassing, their families, their friends. she needs to remember first and foremost that they are like us. That people react as different when treated different, and the best thing we can do is be kind, friendly, and open as a culture. her actions may have, through their presentation of americans as fearful and hateful, caused the death of someone she cares for in the future, because her story will be told, and people may react poorly too it…

Cadbury Dairy Milk – Glass and a Half Full Productions: