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Entries from April 2007

weekend whine

April 15th, 2007 · No Comments

Edit: this feels like a big long waaahhh now that I’ve written it. Just a warning. Here I am, feeling kind of tired on a nice Sunday evening. The temperature is nice outside (just a bit cool for hanging around in shorts), but it started raining in bursts a little while ago so I had [...]

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Tags: links out · personal crap

Internet Addiction Regulation

April 11th, 2007 · No Comments

In the last day I’ve read that China is trying to curb the growth of online game addiction from a couple of sources. The BBC and Ars Technica both have articles citing this article from Xinhua. My reaction to the headline was to wonder how they plan to enforce such policies, and apparently it’s by [...]

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Tags: china · links out

Pearls Before Breakfast

April 9th, 2007 · No Comments

I saw a link to this article from the Washington Post about how they got a brilliant musician to play in a metro station for a morning and see if anybody noticed. It’s a fun read. What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. – from “Leisure,” [...]

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Tags: links out · music

impropriety

April 4th, 2007 · No Comments

How do I say “please stop talking to me because your breath is making me nauseous” without being too impolite?

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Tags: china · personal crap

The Struggle to Right Oneself

April 3rd, 2007 · No Comments

I saw this on Cool Hunting and I thought that it seemed like a cool concept. I liked the idea of this Kerry Skarbakka guy. However when I went and looked at the images, something didn’t seem right to me. He states “Heidegger described human existence as a process of perpetual falling, and it is [...]

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Tags: links out