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Monthly Archives: April 2006

Concentration….

22-Apr-06

Great blog post on concentration via http://www.reddit.com
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Another great Frontline….

20-Apr-06

Recently Frontline had and episode titled Tankman. The episode explored the question of what ever happened to the man who stood in front of a tank during the protests in Tiananmen Square on June 5, 1989. Go see it over at the PBS website at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tankman/view/ and marvel that great TV still gets made.

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Great Wiki Observations….

19-Apr-06

Check it out at: http://www.alittlemadness.com/?p=5
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Bertrand Russell on How to Write…

17-Apr-06

Sage advice from Bertrand Russell on "How to Write". It comes down to a very few simple aphorims reproduced here for your reading pleasure:
1 – Never use a long word if a short word will do.
2 – If you want to make a statement with a great many qualifications, put some of the qualifications in [...]

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Dan Osman is insane…

16-Apr-06

I love climbing and in my younger years spent quite some time in New Paltz with my brother doing some amazing climbing. As I’ve grown older I’ve taken more to mountaineering and sadly don’t do much rock climbing anymore. This video had me riveted, Dan Osman takes rock climbing to an utterly insane level, check [...]

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Iran and the state of the state…

07-Apr-06

A fascinating little piece by Victor David Hanson, classicist and author of such works as Ripples of the Battle and A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War, over at the National Review. Hanson’s basic thesis is that Iran and Iran’s president (& indeed many in the third world) [...]

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