In Your Facebook
Last Week
"For my own part, I am going to retreat from the whole thing, remain as unplugged as possible, and spend the time I save by not going on Facebook doing something useful, such as reading books.
Why would I want to waste my time on Facebook when I still haven't read Keats' Endymion?
And when there are seeds to be sown in my own back yard?
I don't want to retreat from nature, I want to reconnect with it.
Damn air-conditioning!
And if I want to connect with the people around me, I will revert to an old piece of technology.
It's free, it's easy and it delivers a uniquely individual experience in sharing information: it's called talking."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jan/14/facebook
~~~
Someone invited me, and I think I've an account, which I never used.
And never will
Sanity Check in 13
2 Weeks Ago
1. Do you believe that a particular religious tradition holds accurate knowledge of the ultimate nature of reality and the purpose of human life?
2. Do you believe that some thinking being consciously made the universe?
3. Is there an identifiable force coursing through the universe, holding it together, or uniting all life-forms?
4. Could prayer be in any way effective, that is, do you believe that such a being or force (as posited above) could ever be responsive to your thoughts or words?
5. Do you believe this being or force can think or speak?
6. Do you believe this being has a memory or can make plans?
7. Does this force sometimes take a human form?
8. Do you believe that the thinking part or animating force of a human being continues to exist after the body has died?
9. Do you believe that any part of a human being survives death, elsewhere or here on earth?
10. Do you believe that feelings about things should be admitted as evidence in establishing reality?
11. Do you believe that love and inner feelings of morality suggest that there is a world beyond that of biology, social patterns, and accident – i.e., a realm of higher meaning?
12. Do you believe that the world is not completely knowable by science?
13. If someone were to say, “The universe is nothing but an accidental pile of stuff, jostling around with no rhyme nor reason, and all life on earth is but a tiny, utterly inconsequential speck of nothing, in a corner of space, existing in the blink of an eye never to be judged, noticed, or remembered,” would you say, “Now that’s going a bit far, that’s a bit wrongheaded?”
“If you answered No to all these questions, you’re a hard-core atheist and of a certain variety: a rational materialist.
If you said No to the first seven, but then had a few Yes answers, you’re still an atheist, but you may have what I call a pious relationship to the universe.
If your answers to the first seven questions contained at least two Not Sure answers, you’re an agnostic.
If you answered Yes to some of the questions, you still might be an atheist or agnostic, though not of the materialist variety.
If you answered Yes to nine or more, you are a believer.
But more than providing titles for various states of mind, the questions above may serve to demonstrate common clusters of opinion."
- Jennifer Michael Hecht, Doubt: A History. HarperSanFrancisco, 2003. –
QOTD!
Oct 20, 2009
Woohoo! 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/F19585?thread=6996958#pi5
calibre
Oct 2, 2009
is cool 
http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/
"calibre reads metadata from the following formats: LRF, PDF, LIT, RTF, OPF, MOBI, PRC, EPUB, FB2, IMP, RB, HTML. In addition it can write metadata to: LRF, RTF, OPF, EPUB, PDF, MOBI"
Now I need a kindle 
Arr!
Sep 19, 2009
It be a day o' that sort once again, matey!
Arr!
The List
Jul 25, 2009
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!
Just added another stellar individual to The List -- A46999020
ennui
Jul 14, 2009
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1543#comic
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Sometimes the line..
Jul 12, 2009
..separating religion from magic seems very, very thin indeed.
http://www.vancouversun.com/life/He...ine+intervention/1779928/story.html
I am acquainted with this particular priest. He is fond of collecting 'holy' relics 
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