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A snippet from an article titled The vanishing jihad exposés (which was shared by Zach, thanks!): We’ve gotten used to one-way multiculturalism: The world accepts that you can’t open an Episcopal or Congregational church in Jeddah or Riyadh, but every week the Saudis can open radical mosques and madrassahs and pro-Saudi think-tanks in London and [...]

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Larry (who works with drug addicts) writes in a comment on one of his posts: No, I haven’t thought it out. In fact, most of my beliefs are poorly constructed out of pure whimsy. This one is no exception. The only anomaly I can think of to my “whimsy” rule is this: I believe that [...]

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- the title of this Savage Chicken cartoon: Loneliness is not a lack of people around you, it is the lack of a deeper “connection”. Loneliness is the human condition… the need for connection a basic human need. We are social creatures. Whether it is merely the by-product of human intellect and the search for [...]

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Ever had trouble deciding whether to buy your Coke (or Fanta) in a 340ml tin can, a 500ml glass bottle, or a plastic bottle? If so, here’s some help: buy a glass bottle! Or anything that can be taken in again for a deposit. If you are thinking of price, bear in mind the environmental [...]

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Take a look at an Interesting Argument About Global Warming. This thing is uncannily similar to a chain letter, hehe… (is this an example where I will break my own policy by passing it on? Seems so, I’m posting it on my blog. ) To those that do a lot of thinking, this video will [...]

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I notice on Facebook, the more than 13,000 people on the Stellenbosch network mostly consider themselves “liberal”, with respect to politics. (With only 40% filling in the field, 2% chose Conservative, 1% Very Conservative, vs 14% Liberal, 4% Very Liberal. That’s 18% vs 3%. 9% have marked “Other”, 8% “Moderate”, 1% Libertarian.) Back at the [...]

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A job is something that you do that is of value to someone else – that someone else then does something for you in exchange. Of course, since we often do things for people who have nothing to offer us directly, we do an indirect trade… through use of tokens we call money. The resource [...]

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I saw “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End” yesterday, on the big screen. Unfortunately it wasn’t surprisingly good. (“Sequels are typically bad” still applies). On Metacritic, Pirates I, II and III scored 64/8.8, 53/6.6 and 50/5.2 successively. I can understand that. (That’s critics/users, and >60 for critics, is a “favourable” score.) I am unfortunately [...]

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Last week a friend sent me a pdf, The Low-Information Diet: How to Eliminate E-Mail Overload and Tripe Productivity in 24 Hours. Go check it out, it is thought provoking and applicable in many fields (not just email). “What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of [...]

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Conversations with friends force me to think more critically about Spiderman 3. Yes, it was sentimental fluff; yes, if you had big expectations and a good memory of 1 and 2, you might be severely disappointed. In my case, I didn’t really have any expectations, I wasn’t particularly excited about it, and my memory of [...]

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