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Bluefish Way
The life of Ralph and his cats

July 13, 2018

341: Happy

~Happy~ Good news ! My Spanish bank account is closed, I mean CLOSED, kaput, no more !!! Happy, happy ! Yay ! *faint* ~id~ I think WP Staff may have solved the problem of your comments automatically going into trash in my last post. ...

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Take Back the Sky

Take Back the Sky
Because the first private manned US spaceship should be named SERENITY!

July 2, 2018

“The Serenity Handbook” Is a Worthy Addition to Any Browncoat’s Library

(Update: Shortly after this review was originally posted we received an email from Insight Editions with a message from the book’s editor regarding the issue of Mal’s and Zoe’s rank in the Independent Army. Here’s the explanation we received: “In most of the flashback sequences and supplementary material, we know that Mal and Zoe were […]

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Esme’s Cloud

Esme’s Cloud
The Wanderings and wonderings of a sentient cloud.

July 17, 2018

The Character of Cataracta

Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water …

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gigglinginthegutter

gigglinginthegutter
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May 26, 2018

Conjugation

(Our Mother, Our Brother ) Our Other, whose heart be heaven Hallowed be thy pain Thy kingdom’s won If we be one On earth as it is in heaven. (Anima, Animas, Animamus) Amen For Clarissa Pinkola Estes. (Thank you)

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Skeptical Inquirer

Committee for Skeptical Inquiry

June 6, 2018

Percival Lowell and the Canals of Mars

The planet Mars has always fascinated humanity. In fact, it seems to interest us considerably more than most things in the night sky.

This makes sense; Mars is often not only clearly visible but conspicuously red like blood. So many ancient societies associated Mars with war, always of considerable interest to the human species. Mars appeals to us both as a physical object for observation and as a lure for mythological speculation.

There is a duality here. On the one hand, there is the visible planet; the red coloration reflects its geology. On the other hand, there is the Mars of interpretation, whose red color reflects its attributional warlike nature; this says a lot more about human psychology than it does about the planet Mars itself.

The red planet causes us to observe and to speculate.

Speculation. That’s where the problems come in. There is physical reality, and there is interpretation; and it is frequently the interpretation, rather than the reality, that seizes the attention of human beings. Our brains are remarkably predisposed to the interpretation of objective physical reality in psychological, self-referential terms. Unfortunately, these terms are frequently just plain wrong.

Examples of this are legion. In previous articles in SI, my coauthors and I have discussed ordinary objects that have metamorphosed, in the minds of their observers, into nonexistent phenomena ranging from UFOs to Bigfoot, and we have found specific patterns of mental processing that contribute directly to these misinterpretations (e.g., Sharps et al. 2016). In the more prosaic but more sinister worlds of eyewitness memory and officer-involved shootings, we have frequently found innocuous things such as power tools being transformed, psychologically, into far less innocuous firearms (e.g., Sharps 2017). It is very clear that our brains can lead us to see

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Oaklandon

Oaklandon
The Unofficial Oaklandon Community Website

May 30, 2018

THE PRIZE REBUS

Indianapolis News,Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 January 1878

THE PRIZE REBUS

THE PRIZE REBUS

The First Prize of a $15 Suit of Clothes offered, by the WHEN Clothing Stores for a correct solution to the Prize Rebus published in the Holiday Edition of the INDIANAPOLIS ILLUSTRATED TIMES is awarded to Mr. Chas. J. Negley, Oaklandon, Marion county, Ind. The Second Prize of a $6 Overcoat is awarded to Mr. A. R. McAlpine, Brightwood, Marion county, Ind. No other correct solution received. The following is a correct solution of Rebus:

A due regard for economy in one's expense account is of vast importance to all, who aim to build fortunes in times like the present. The foundation of success ia anchored to a saving and prudent disbursement of money. Recent improvements in the art of ready-made clothing have induced lovers of economy to investigate this branch of trade. Men have come to understand that a genteel fit may be secured without incurring the expense which high-priced tailors are pleased to charge. It is incumbent upon man or boy to purchase clothing from the dealer that offers the greatest inducements. A careful inspection of stock will convince all that time and money are saved by buying from

THE WHEN CLOTHING STORES, 5 & 6 Bates Block and 10 W. Washington st.

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Armed and Dangerous

Sex, software, politics, and firearms.
Life’s simple pleasures...

July 10, 2018

The return of the servant problem

I think we all better hope we get germ-line genetic engineering and really effective nootropics real soon now. Because I think I have seen what the future looks like without these technologies, and it sucks. A hundred years ago, 1918, … Continue reading →

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June 4, 2018

Lorem Ipsum Your Name Here

What is Lorem Ipsum?

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The standard chunk of Lorem Ipsum used since the 1500s is reproduced below for those interested. Sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 from "de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum" by Cicero are also reproduced in their exact original form, accompanied by English versions from the 1914 translation by H. Rackham.