Tag: found content
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Cheerless But Entertaining
Last week’s featured webcomic was The System, and in the process of clicking through those wonderful additives to the humour universe, I discovered another. Matan, creator of an Israeli webcomic called “Ho Lo” (a Hebrew expression that roughly translates as “Oh Crap”), drew a guest comic for Rosscott which was good… definitely good enough to…
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The System Has Not Failed
If you enjoy xkcd, you will probably enjoy this webcomic series by Rosscott Nover: Quirky humour and wry observation, usually depicted through stick-figure sign icons. Instructions for use: Read this. Or this. Any of them, really. Buy stuff from his Store and/or make sure your ad blocking software is turned off (the man needs to eat…
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Enter the Dojo
I’m studying Yoseikan Aikido, which is nothing like this… The link to the entire season of Enter the Dojo is here.
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The Folly of Man
The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity, said: “Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live…
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Life’s Wake-Up Call
Because we don’t know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part…
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Happy Valentine’s Day
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The Truth About Placebos
“It is a reality of our time that the same companies promoting health care products are also largely responsible for underwriting their research.” An excerpt from The Industry of Illness in US Health Care: Why Privatization Is Inefficient – Part 3 The following ad didn’t really fit the tone of my “scholarly” discussion quoted above,…
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On geograhic content restriction
I’ve seen some amazing touring exhibits of Egyptian and Roman antiquities. What if the geographic restrictions that corporations use to limit the viewing of online content were applied to physical art? This piece by Paul Mutant puts it in perspective.
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A Vending Machine that Sells… Live Crabs?
Here’s a video worth viewing. Watch it, then consider: Are you impressed by the innovation and convenience-mindedness of humankind, or the limitless of our cruelty?