December 2011
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To read:
Fiction:
On The Road by Jack Kerouac
Eeeee Eee Eeee by Tao Lin
The Plague by Albert Camus
Ongoing Philosophy/Metatheory:
Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Cosmodernism by Christian Moraru
The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe by Roger Penrose
Solving Mathematical Problems: A Personal Perspective by Terrence Tao
Just finished:
The Perks of...
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Dream 6
I found myself lost in the house of my childhood, but I could not breathe very well. As I heaved and huffed and puffed, someone told me to look in the mirror. I did.
I found before me the face of a well-tanned, sixteen year-old girl. I was that girl. I did not find this odd, except for the strange inability to breathe. I then awoke to my own, male body.
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The Rip-Off in Iraq →
via tetw:
Operation Iraqi Freedom, it turns out, was never a war against Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. It was an invasion of the federal budget, and no occupying force in history has ever been this efficient. George W. Bush’s war in the Mesopotamian desert was an experiment of sorts, a crude first take at his vision of a fully privatized American government. In Iraq the lines between...
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Sad But Funny And Confusing
via ghostorballoon:
dagseoul:
non white new atheists.
I can understand it I guess, the only new atheist I’ve ever read more than twenty pages of was Dawkins, and his smug assertions of power seemed a lot more rooted in heterosexual maleness and class than in race. Race was there, but his key kool kid kualifications seemed to primarily be a nice house, a nice diploma, and bland patronizing...
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R&D
Humanity.
I would like to think that perhaps this country, wherein I reside, is stuck in a bit of a quagmire. One should stop reading now if one thinks I am incorrect, by all means. There are two camps (who brutally force everyone else to submit to their whim) in this land of fifty states (but mostly one big stick) and they play with each other on a regular basis. Actually, they also have a...
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I’m so tired.
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Here's an awkward post-mortem for the Occupy L.A.... →
via shortformblog:
Los Angeles police used nearly a dozen undercover detectives to infiltrate the Occupy LA encampment before this week’s raid to gather information on the anti-Wall Street protesters’ intentions, according to media reports.
None of the officers slept at the camp, but they tried to blend in during the weeks leading up to the raid to learn about plans to resist or use weapons...
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