So, Livejournal removed a bunch of sites (example) and then had to put them back. They did so because there was a concern that said sites might have been encouraging unwelcome behaviours based solely upon interests listed. It looks like Lj tried to throw the baby out with the bathwater. A good, if not vast, majority of these sites were either ( Read more... )

So, I decided for my paper for my class on Descartes to try to straighten out what is commonly called the 'Cartesian Circle'. Now, this wouldn't be so bad, except whether straight or curved I think the argument is, to put it nicely, flawed from the get go. I'm driving myself bonkers because I just want to smack the entire thing down - which would ( Read more... )