Month: May 2008
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Daily Dose of Imagery
daily dose of imagery is a simple view of my day to day visual experience, or my personal photoblog. I post one photo a day on this web site. By Sam Javanrouh. The newest addition to my RSS reader.
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Shikai Maki – The Best Looking Sushi. Ever.
I’ve loved sushi for as long as I can remember, and since I read Carl’s Sushi: A Layered Technology a few years ago, I’ve also loved making my own sushi – improving and getting more adventurous every time. On the left, please see my next attempt: Shikai Maki, as demonstrated by myamii over at For…
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The Meaning of Life. No, Seriously!
This is what started it all. By bringing some interesting philosophical questions to the table, this discussion got me seriously thinking about what impact not following a structured and continuous personal and professional development plan can have on both my quality of life and that of the world directly around me. The FAQ on the…
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Another Example of Middle-East Ignorance
Dunkin’ Donuts removes ‘terror scarf’ ad – The US chain Dunkin’ Donuts has pulled an advert following complaints that the scarf worn by a celebrity chef offered symbolic support for Islamic extremism. She was wearing a black-and-white checked scarf around her neck that resembled a traditional Arab keffiyeh. This fashion choice incensed at least one…
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Suing in the Name of God
Soon it’s going to be illegal to see into the future; contact the deceased; and find out what’s inside closed envelopes. Well, probably… New laws are about to criminalise clairvoyants who fail to note on their advertisements that their services ‘are not subject to scientific proof’. Obviously, I’d like to think that the more intelligent…
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Breaking Records with Firefox 3
The release of Firefox 3 is imminent, and to celebrate its launch, the Mozilla Foundation is organising Download Day 2008 – an attempt to break set the record for the most software downloads in a 24 hour period. As I’ll be downloading this soon after release for both my home and work computer, I have…
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Creating Indexed Users
When it was live, I used to look forward to the next instalment of Creating Passionate Users; a blog on doing business in the IT sector where the writers were “all passionate about the brain and meta-cognition”. The entries were comical and the accompanying graphs were simple, elegant, and really were worth a thousand words.…
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The Placebo Effect – Once More With Feeling
I’ve just written a post on one of my favourite topics; the placebo effect. Triggered by the article Placebo is not what you think, it touches on the use of placebos by medical professionals (currently a banned practice) and the informed use of placebos by heroin addicts. Strangely enough, in the latter case the use…
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Aristotle’s Moral Virtues and Vices
In Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, moral virtues and their extremes are discussed. That is to say, personal characteristics and the extremes thereof. These extremes – or vices – are two of the three pillars of virtue, the third of which is The Golden Mean, or the Virtuous Mean. This mean is the position on the ‘scale’…