Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder

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30 Nov 2001, 10:16 a.m.

Argh, argh, argh. Scott Adams got me! I…

Argh, argh, argh. Scott Adams got me! I mocked the imperfect questioner and questioned the Socrates character, and now I find out that this Daily Cal reviewer got the point, and I didn't. Adams was, …

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29 Nov 2001, 7:56 a.m.

There's this great photo in Bob Woodward's The Choice (his…

There's this great photo in Bob Woodward's The Choice (his book on the 1996 US presidential election). Colin Powell is speaking at some press conference with downcast eyes and, on the right, a woman, presumably …

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28 Nov 2001, 23:57 p.m.

I took a break from writing my paper -- at…

I took a break from writing my paper -- at this rate it'll be done in May or so -- to try to finish off my thoughts on something that happened today. I gave in …

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28 Nov 2001, 21:30 p.m.

"There are many different philosophical positions on what it means…

"There are many different philosophical positions on what it means to be ethical and what morality means (Frankena, 1973)." Thank you, Richard M. Perloff and Mr. or Ms. Frankena.

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28 Nov 2001, 12:26 p.m.

The In Defense of Advertising book had nothing I could…

The In Defense of Advertising book had nothing I could use, I discovered rather quickly. (No index entries for "children," "minors," "protection," "sex," or "violence.") But our Objectivist friend Mr. Kirkpatrick married a woman named …

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28 Nov 2001, 12:13 p.m.

I should have known that some book entitled In Defense…

I should have known that some book entitled In Defense of Advertising: arguments from reason, ethical egoism, and laissez-faire capitalism would revolt me. But the copyright acknowledgments page contains eight items, three of them by …

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28 Nov 2001, 12:07 p.m.

Lane, W. Ronald, and Thomas Russell. Advertising: A Framework.…

Lane, W. Ronald, and Thomas Russell. Advertising: A Framework. p. 265. The word "slogan" comes from the Gaelic, slugh gairm, for "battle cry."

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26 Nov 2001, 21:01 p.m.

I just conversed with my sister and lent her: One-L…

I just conversed with my sister and lent her: One-L by Scott Turow, Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress, Waiting by Ha Jin, and a book of graphic --that is, comic-book style-- retellings of various …

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22 Nov 2001, 23:24 p.m.

I used to read a Calvin and Hobbes every day,…

I used to read a Calvin and Hobbes every day, off calvinandhobbes.com. But that habit lapsed, and today I read some Watterston for the first time in months (not counting the strips that I see …

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22 Nov 2001, 23:20 p.m.

Mixed-up bookshelves: at one Thanksgiving shindig I attended today, I saw…

Mixed-up bookshelves: at one Thanksgiving shindig I attended today, I saw Moby Dick next to The Illustrated Adventures of Sherlock Holmes next to The Days Are Just Packed! I got through half of the Watterston …

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