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[Transhumanism.org] World Transhumanist Association - blog comments: ... the third conceit, I will argue that even transhumanists have ignored the fourth. ... people drink non-poisoned champagne to justify the BRM’s laziness. ...

[Marlovian.com] Marlowe Lives!: I'm astonished that none of the jackals at HLAS pounced on my sinewy verses and tore them to shreds after I posted them. Comments were offered by only a couple of Marlovians, plus my old friend and sparring partner Greg Reynolds, who cleverly picked up on the irony of the fact that--after signing myself David "I'm getting so old, I can hardly remember anything any" More--I forgot to give the URL for the website! A Marlovian named Lyra (with a penchant for anagrams) came to the rescue and looked it up on Google, then summarized the contents and offered some encouraging words:

[Foodini.org] finger ronb (Ron Barry's Blog): he means it. - rbarry%20040615How to read Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams* Run (walk, crawl, sprint, mosey, amble, toddle, limp, soldier forth) to the nearest (or farthest - maybe you need the exercise) bookstore (not library, theeconomy needs your help) and locate a copy of Dirk Gently's Holistic DetectiveAgency, the book whose title fits on a line of text about as well as the bookitself fits into a beer bottle.* Purchase said book, hereafter known as DGHDA, tbwtfoalotaawatbifiabb, orDGHDA for short.* When you get DGHDA, aka the book whose damn abreviation must be typed mostlyon one finger if you use a sensible keyboard layout, (that's the interesting thing about using dvorak - words are great for typing, but the random layot of qwerty makes acronyms easy while on dvorak they tend to reduce your index fingers to mush) take it home and put it down.* Go back to the bookstore. This is a test for all of you who start building amodel before actually reading all the directions: you forgot your copy of theRhyme of the Ancient Mariner. A Samuel Taylor Coleridge biography might benice as well.* Read the Rhyme.* If you've gotten this far, you either study the model instructions first oryou received the same high-school-english selective lobotomy I did.

 [Blog.mises.org] Mises Economics Blog: August 2004 Archives: Such academics often view Jefferson and Lincoln as intellectual kin, and invoke Jefferson in support of all manner of government interventions and institutions. Bassani challenges this conceit, showing that Jefferson’s intellectual lineage traces to John Locke. He offers extensive quotations from both Jefferson and Locke, and even cites Jefferson’s contemporaries and later thinkers who also find such parallels. In fact, in some cases, Jefferson was attacked for his Lockean lineage, particularly by those favoring massive (or even unlimited) expansion of government—such big-government advocates often found Jefferson’s arguments a hindrance to their plans.

 [Signonsandiego.com] Disembodied Brain sci-fi weblog | Early review: <i>The Matrix ...: Reloaded ended with several plotlines in play: The dreaded machines are hours away from drilling their way down to the underground city of Zion to kill the last free humans on earth; Neo (Keanu Reeves) is in a comatose state after using a mysterious ability to shut down deadly squid-like machines about to kill him and his crash-landed colleagues; a human infected by the self-replicating Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving) is laying on a medical bed next to Neo; and, according to the mysterious white-bearded Architect, the Matrix itself will suffer a "cataclysmic system crash killing everyone" connected to it because Neo chose to save his beloved Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) rather than the whole of the human race.

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