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Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Do You Know Me? Do I?

The Johari Window was invented by Joseph Luft and Harrington Ingham in the 1950s as a model for mapping personality awareness. By describing yourself from a fixed list of adjectives, then asking your friends and colleagues to describe you from the same list, a grid of overlap and difference can be built up.

Do you know me? If so ... play along: link

 

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Wednesday, February 15, 2006

Wal-Mart Has a Sense of Humor!

This is old news now, but I just heard about it ...

Wal-Mart stirred outrage yesterday when its Web site suggested that shoppers who wanted to buy a "Planet of the Apes" DVD would be interested in biopics of famous black Americans like Martin Luther King Jr.

 

Hah!

Link

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Thursday, February 09, 2006

Heat Vision and Jack

The best pilot you've never seen, this is a show from 1999 produced by Ben Stiller (who also briefly stars as a strip club DJ). Jack Black stars as Jack Austin, an astronaut on the run from NASA after a solar accident makes him the smartest man in the universe (but only when the sun is up). Owen Wilson plays the voice of his motorcycle, which fused with Jack's unemployed roommate in a misdirected ray-gun blast. Also starring is Ben Stiller's hot-as-hell, money-can-buy-anything wife, Christine Taylor, and Ron Silver as ... himself (the bad guy). So if you've got a half hour to kill, this is better than Grey's Anatomy or whatever you were just about to sit through...

 

Link (to large movie file)

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Wednesday, February 08, 2006

Evolutionary Religion

I just finished reading through a very interesting interview of Daniel Dennett, who is proposing that religion may the product of evolution like so many physical entities, and that religion needs to be studied and understood and stop hiding behind an impregnable veil of untouchability. He sums up his mission thusly:
 
"I appreciate that many readers will be profoundly distrustful of the tack I am taking here," he writes. "They will see me as just another liberal professor trying to cajole them out of some of their convictions, and they are dead right about that -- that's what I am, and that's exactly what I am trying to do."
 
His appreciably pragmatic approach is refreshing in an arena of argumenative pontificating, and it is my hope, for one, that he can help lead a movement to question the ties between religion and politics. As he says, religion is tied to nearly every major global problem we have, and as such it needs to be understood, questioned, challenged.
He is clear and straightforward and makes a series of coherent points that seem to me to hard to argue without resorting to some barbarous defense like "It's just a matter of faith - you can't question it."

(You don't have to register, they just funnel you through an ad first)
 
(Thanks Bennett)

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Tuesday, February 07, 2006

Prophetic Rhetoric

This from nearly two years ago, The Onion predicts Gillette's five-blade revolution. Funnier now than ever.

Link: Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Blades

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Friday, February 03, 2006

And BeeTeeDub, There's No Santa Claus

Another childhood dream smashed... turns out Marty and Doc were in love. See? Link

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This Week in 'News'

I was in the crapper reading The Onion and was unusually intrigued and entertained by nearly every headline. So I thought I'd share them.

 

President Creates Cabinet-Level Position to Coordinate Scandals
(eh, decent)

TV Blamed For Rise In Formulaic Violence
(link)

Eighty Percent Of Al-Qaeda No. 2s Now Dead
(link)

MPAA Unveils Rating System Based On Old Testament
(link)

I Love The Idea Of My Wife
(best of the lot)

 

 

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Thursday, February 02, 2006

Gross.

See? Link

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