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The other day I was listening to an interview with Sarah Vowell, who had written a book about Catholic Missionary programs to Hawaii and other Pacific Islands in the 19th century. Vowell's book explored why the missionaries were so successful in converting the islanders to Christianity. There were all sorts of "maybe this was the reason," and " ( Read more... )

After the whole kerfluffle about Juan Williams and the term "traditional Muslim garb," I have to admit that King Abudulla II of Jordan looks fine in what he's wearing:


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There's a meme going around to analyze your writing in the belief that somehow you write "like" someone else. I'm suspecting some trivial keyword magic: the word "robot" automagically gets you Asimov, for example.

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The Megalomaniac

Ambitious, Intelligent, Calculating


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First heard this on Stephanie Miller this morning, and it seems to be going hot: Mail President Bush a shoe. The address for the White House is: 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington DC, 20500.

After all the abuse of office, and the sheer inability of the man to come to grips with the great moral evil he has unleashed on the world, even from a ( Read more... )

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solarbird pointed me to some thingy that supposedly analyzes your blog and spits out what kind of person you are on your horoscope the Briggs-Meyers map. Running these against all of my blogs has some fun results:

( Elf M. Sternberg at LiveJournal: The Thinker! )

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