08 Oct 2006, 2:08 a.m.

"How do you remember a truth that will cause clinical depression?"

Are these the lessons of Auschwitz? What else must I be sure to recognize? Our moral hearts, like our physical ones, are weak and prone to disease. If we acknowledge this and determine to exercise …

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07 Oct 2006, 16:47 p.m.

Milquetoast Mainframe Japery

How IBM Trains Its Mainframe Sales Force. Found when I finally realized, "Hey, instead of trying to guess from context what this particular author means by 'mainframe,' I can look up the generally accepted definition …

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06 Oct 2006, 11:57 a.m.

Whistleblowers Of Our Time

Katharine Gun. Coleen Rowley. Sherron Watkins? Bunny Greenhouse. Karen Kwiatkowski.

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05 Oct 2006, 17:09 p.m.

Julia Sweeney Coming Back

Julia Sweeney's amazing show "Letting Go of God" is returning to Ars Nova starting Oct. 19th. It closes on Oct. 29th. I'd love to see it again.

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05 Oct 2006, 15:40 p.m.

Productivity Subverted

By The Daily WTF archives and the Memory Alpha Star Trek wiki. Jeffrey Combs + anything = crazy delicious.

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05 Oct 2006, 11:47 a.m.

Missing Frances

I miss Frances every day. Today I read a few of her old weblog entries. A student today said she can tell that I like the class. I'm glad she thinks so. I'm glad she …

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05 Oct 2006, 11:30 a.m.

Seen Today

An IKEA lamp set out with the trash on the curb.

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05 Oct 2006, 7:26 a.m.

RSS Aggregation

I used to use Feed On Feeds, but was uncomfortable with the web app. So I dropped out of the RSS scene. Last night I downloaded NetNewsWire, which all the Mac people lurve, and I'm …

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03 Oct 2006, 0:14 a.m.

Whooo, Sorkin

Okay, if Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip will consistently be at least this good, I'll watch. At least, Sorkin.

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02 Oct 2006, 20:28 p.m.

You Know You're In A Business Class If

I read about the Dominion's polaron beams and the ease with which DS9 learned to defend against them, and thought, "what was the net present value of that technology investment?"

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