Coyote Blog proposes a daring plan to rebuild New Orleans. I doubt anything so simple will be tried.
Here is my urban plan for New Orleans: Every person who owns property can build whatever the hell they want on it. If other people want something else built on that property, and value this outcome [...]
Posted on September 25th, 2005 by pwyll
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Some remarks on an essay by Donald Sensing, Can we really believe in Hell?
If this theology of hell works for you as it does for me, then there are still steps to take.??One is that the prospect of eternal punishment need not figure prominently in the Gospel of love. The center of the Gospel is [...]
Posted on September 24th, 2005 by pwyll
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Iraq is a liberal war. The war against Islamofascism is a liberal war. True liberals support it. When it broke out, liberals were given the choice of remaining true to their principles or maintaining their sense of superiority to George Bush. For most, the choice was so easy they didn’t even realize they’d made a [...]
Posted on September 24th, 2005 by pwyll
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Stepping up the battle against entertainment piracy, Verizon Communications Inc. and Walt Disney Co. have entered a long-term programming deal that calls for the phone company to send a warning to Internet users suspected of pirating Disney’s content on its broadband services.
Under the deal, one of the first of its kind in the television industry, [...]
Posted on September 24th, 2005 by pwyll
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I continue an earlier post on the use of euphemism and phrasing in news reporting, this time with a beautiful example from Chester. He analyzes an article from Time called Chasing the Ghosts. Chester extracts these phrases. My comments in brackets.
“elusive and inexhaustible enemy”
[The enemy is superhuman; unlike mortals they never tire. Kill them, and [...]
Posted on September 22nd, 2005 by pwyll
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OpenSSH is a suite of tools that allows (among other things) secure encrypted remote logins. I frequently use it to shell into the machine that hosts this blog. I recently learned of the SSHFS project, which allows one to mount a remote filesystem locally via ssh.
I primarily blog from my Powerbook via wireless, but I [...]
Posted on September 21st, 2005 by pwyll
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