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American Phrenological Journal cover (1848), via Immanent...

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:11:25 -0400

American Phrenological Journal cover (1848), via Immanent Frame

listening to "Bad Sneakers - Steely Dan"

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:59:34 -0400

listening to "Bad Sneakers - Steely Dan": More of the same

listening to "My Old School - Steely Dan"

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:48:37 -0400

listening to "My Old School - Steely Dan": This seems about right.

Garry Trudeau, Doonesbury, Sept. 28, 2008

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:12:40 -0400

Garry Trudeau, Doonesbury, Sept. 28, 2008

Ms. Ruth blesses each robe before sending them off. Here, she...

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:25:51 -0400

Ms. Ruth blesses each robe before sending them off. Here, she is holding a new, red satin robe against her chest as she blesses it

"Many people… in the world do not realise that they have not earned the food they eat, that..."

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 21:53:48 -0400

“Many people… in the world do not realise that they have not earned the food they eat, that they take without giving… But if someone consumes more than they have earned, it means someone else is starving… It is right to see people who consume more than they deserve shattered by a financial crisis from time to time, to suffer so that they can become more reasonable…We have so quickly lost our human appearance, we have become beasts.”

- Hristo Mishkov, 32, called Brother Nikanor, an Orthodox monk in Bulgaria who formerly worked as a NASDAQ trader in New York. Source: Anna Mudeva, “Broker turned monk offers home truths to needy,” Reuters UK World (Oct. 1, 2008). Nikanor also commented: “Milk is not produced by computers, bread doesn’t come from a good company PR. It is necessary to plough, sow and harvest before that.” (Link; Webcite.)

McCain's campaign manager on the "how many houses" gaffe (August, 2008)

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 16:23:51 -0400

“We’re delighted to have a real estate debate with Barack Obama… [Obama’s house is] a frickin’ mansion. He doesn’t tell people that. You have a mansion you bought in a shady deal with a convicted felon…. The reality is [the McCains] have some investment properties and stuff. It’s not as if he lives in ten houses. That’s just not the case… The reality is they have four that actually could be considered houses they could use…. This is a guy who lived in one house for five and a half years — in prison…. In terms of who’s an elitist, I think people have made a judgment that John McCain is not an arugula-eating, pointy headed professor-type based on his life story.”

Brian Rogers, McCain’s campaign manager, responding on August 21, 2008, to questions regarding McCain’s inability to say how many hosues he owns. Source: Michael D. Shear, “McCain Spokesman’s Retort: Obama Lives in ‘a Frickin’ Mansion’: Pressed on growing controversy over McCain’s comment on not knowing how many houses he has, McCain’s spokesman loses his cool,” The Trail: A Daily Diary of Campaign 2008 (a washingtonpost.com blog; Aug. 21, 2008; link).

"The genius of the New Testament message is precisely that it shows with shameless nakedness a..."

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 11:38:53 -0400

“The genius of the New Testament message is precisely that it shows with shameless nakedness a so-called savior delivered up to the meaninglessness of the world and existence.”

- Gary Lease, paraphrasing the work of exegete Otto Kuss (1905-1991), in “Telling the Truth Can Be Dangerous Business,” in Introducing Religion: Essays in Honor of Jonathan Z. Smith (London: Equinox Pub., 2008), 241-251, p. 248.

A Belgocentric map of Europe, via Strange Maps

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:56:05 -0400

A Belgocentric map of Europe, via Strange Maps

Obama poster - ‘Choose Hope over Fear’

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 08:56:04 -0400

Obama poster - ‘Choose Hope over Fear’

Hans Hartmann posters

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 01:53:54 -0400

Hans Hartmann posters

From OCAU. Via edythe’s Friendfeed stream.

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Click the ball and it will change color. Honest.

From OCAU. Via edythe’s Friendfeed stream.

Franz Kafka, Die Verwandlung, first edition cover 1915

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:51:45 -0400

Franz Kafka, Die Verwandlung, first edition cover 1915

listening to "Slave To The Rhythm - Grace Jones"

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:20:38 -0400

listening to "Slave To The Rhythm - Grace Jones": greatest pop song ever

listening to "The Caves Of Altamira - Steely Dan"

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:15:51 -0400

listening to "The Caves Of Altamira - Steely Dan": Someday I’m going to work this tune into an academic paper on the theory of religion.

Still hard at work. (This is a test update from HelloTXT jabber, sorry for duplicates.)

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:54:07 -0400

Still hard at work. (This is a test update from HelloTXT jabber, sorry for duplicates.)

"It is very much being able to look off the tip of Alaska. Metaphorically, I’m talking about."

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:50:53 -0400

“It is very much being able to look off the tip of Alaska. Metaphorically, I’m talking about.”

- An unnamed McCain–Palin campaign aide describing Sarah Palin’s foreign policy experience, in response to inquiries from journalists. From CBS’s campaign blog, “From the Road,” posted September 21, 2008 by Scott Conroy (link).

WeHeartIt.com is looking for help with an Internet Explorer plugin

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:38:42 -0400

weheartit:

Up until now we haven’t payed the necessary attention to Internet Explorer. Unfortunatelly IE doesn’t support bookmarklets, so you can’t add the “i heart it” button to the browser window (like you can do on firefox or safari) and use it on any site…

But we want to bring this experience to everyone regardless of the browser they use, so we’re looking for someone that can create a plugin for Internet Explorer. If you have the skills needed and want to help, please let us know, leave a comment on this post.

Class and worldview

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:13:00 -0400

I remember having a conversation with this friend, who told me that when we first met, she had been suspicious of me because I smiled too much. In her view, I was a little too happy. And part of that happiness was the fact that I hadn’t had to struggle in the ways that she’d had to struggle. I also think of a conversation with a fellow student in graduate school, a Black man I did not know well. We were waiting for a bus, and he asked me what I was going to be doing when I finished graduate school. I told him that maybe I would teach, maybe I’d be a psychotherapist. I wasn’t exactly sure. I added, “You know, I just know I don’t ever want to be bored.” And he looked at me and said, “What is your class background?” “What do you mean?” I replied. And he said, “Well, where did you get the idea that work was supposed to be entertaining?” The notion that work should be fulfilling and not just something you do because you have to support yourself or your family or to make ends meet clearly came out of my class background. Class, like race, influences how we view the world, and ultimately, influences how we interact with other people.

Beverly Daniel Tatum, Can We Talk About Race?: And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation (Boston: Beacon Press, 2007), p. 89.

Intelligent Design trial infographic, from The Onion

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:15:07 -0400

Intelligent Design trial infographic, from The Onion