Archive for February, 2005
Monday, February 28th, 2005
sin-cere
1. Not feigned or affected; genuine: sincere indignation.
2. Being without hypocrisy or pretense; true: a sincere friend.
3. Archaic. Pure; unadulterated.
The pastor was making a point: being sincere is not enough to get you into heaven. Hitler, he said, was sincere. Hitler was a monster, but he was nonetheless ...
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Sunday, February 27th, 2005
I got this comment on the Exodus Ain't Easy entry from 02/12/05:
Dude, you rock. To be honest, I didn't try importing without using your perl script first, so I'll just assume without it I would have been in for spending many hours fooling with this.
Many thanks. --Wheelson
Wheelson, welcome to Moveable ...
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Friday, February 25th, 2005
Dawn Eden has found a curious phenomenon of the human nervous system: apparently, for most people, it is very difficult to "lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise circles" and then "whilst doing this, draw the number "6" in the air with your right hand."
I have, with ...
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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005
On Tuesday, BatesLine.com picked up on a comment on tellingdeeds.blogspot.com. "Apathy Bear" says of Michael Bates' website:
Be sure to check out his take on the Terri Schiavo deal. I'm smelling the unpleasent reek of fundy mindrot here...
And then on Wednesday, Hyscience reports on the Florida Department of ...
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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005
Imagine my surprise, when, as I was nosing around on my web server, I stumbled across my old mini-DrudgeReport javascript and mini-WorldNetDaily javascript. I fired them back up, as you can see if you scroll down and look at the right-hand sidebar. They are updated every hour with ...
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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005
Dawn Eden comments last evening on NPR's Persistently Deceptive State and I add this NPR shush job to a growing pile of exasperating Main Stream Media news stories on the subject of Terry Schindler-Schiavo. It's just bizarre that the MSM persists in obscuring the man-bites-wife storyline here, repeatedly assuring ...
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Saturday, February 19th, 2005
As I was travelling from Cleveland to Indiana last night, my son and I listened to Robert Louis Stevenson's Travels With A Donkey in the Cevennes. I was particularly struck by this passage concerning RLS' time in the region of the once terribly persecuted Camisard Protestants who staged a ...
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Saturday, February 19th, 2005
The sun also sets, and as Robert Frost said in his bid for headline contest fame:
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay at the Post.
It's a beautiful piece of work, but Bob didn't win. And so it goes with so many outstanding headlines ...
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Friday, February 18th, 2005
UPDATE: The winners have been announced!
The "Dawn For A Day" contest is now formally ended. Thanks to everyone who participated. I shall be reviewing all entries and announcing the winners this weekend. Meanwhile please feel free to inject your rabid views into the comment boxes of my ...
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Thursday, February 17th, 2005
The pace of scientific and medical breakthroughs in stem cell research is breakneck (no pun intended), with several interesting and/or important discoveries being reported each month. The table below is a synopsis of discoveries from the months of December 2004, January and February 2005 as reported by The Stem ...
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