Posts by Russell Brown
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Personally, I find it useful to know that, and to use it as a good dose of weedkiller in the fertile garden of belief. I can train myself out of it like sportspeople re-train the flinch reflex.
Or, occasionally, indulge it. I regard my irrational thoughts as poetic. They have a place.
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comme ca?
or instant comma?
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Awesome perspectives, dudes.
In fact ...
EXCELLENT!!
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I collected some data on religion for a study I ran recently (as yet unpublished). In addition to asking about religious affiliation, we had a question on the extent to which religion influences your daily life, on a 7 point scale. Fully half of participants went with the "no influence" endpoint, and 70% were under the midpoint.
It was interesting, because in overseas research on the same topic, religion/religious influence had been quite a strong predictor. Here, nothing.That actually doesn't surprise me at all.
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Don, I feel bound to warn you that you are entering the robbery death spiral. Nothing from now on will make sense.
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Awesome discussion. Just sayin'.
We made a good TV show too.
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that everyone is in essence having a different conversation from everyone else.
I think it's called "Twitter".
Anyway, must go. Must make TV. They pay me.
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And meanwhile ...
NEW YORK - A group representing the blind and other people with disabilities protested limitations to the new read-aloud feature on Amazon.com's latest Kindle electronic reader, arguing that the restrictions unfairly limit their access to e-books.
The feature, which reads text in a stiff-sounding electronic voice, is still available for all books on the new Kindle, which was unveiled in February.
But the Authors Guild has expressed concern that the feature will hurt sales of audio books, so Amazon plans to give publishers and authors the ability to silence the text-to-speech function for their books.
That is what prompted the newly formed Reading Rights Coalition, whose supporters include the National Federation of the Blind and the American Association of People with Disabilities, to stage what it called an "informational protest" outside the office of the Authors Guild in New York.
The protesters shouted "We want access sooner" and "Stop the greed, we want to read."
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I am prostrated before your ability to codify.
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Ahem, I said, Rusty Brown for Mayor... do I hear a seconder?
That's the second flattering shoulder-tap I've had today! But, er, no. I like my current job.
And my patience for long meetings is probably only slightly better than Pam Corkery's.
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