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Thursday, December 19, 2002

Support Joss Whedon's "Firefly". So a brief break from the pointless stupidity of modern politics: let's talk about tv shows with spaceships and guns!... [The Truth Laid Bear] Firefly is a fun show, I've been enjoying it a lot. There's a link in this piece to a site starting a postcard campaign to get the show picked up by someone else. A postcard campaign? Why not email? Why not publish some email addresses for those concerned? 10:58:54 PM  Permalink  comment []

Interview with Philip Pullman. Thirdway, a Christian magazine site, interviewed Philip Pullman, the author of His Dark Materials, an astonishing trilogy which I recommend. These were marketed as juvenile novels in the UK, and they put Mr. Potter, et. al. to shame. Pullman's been described as the Anti-Lewis, since the triology is set against a multiverse-spanning war against G_D, and the interview focuses on Pullman's take on deism in general and Christianity in particular. This is the mistake Christians make when they say that if you are an atheist you have to be a nihilist and there's no meaning any more. Well, that's nonsense, as Mary Malone discovers. Now that I'm conscious, now that I'm responsible, there is a meaning, and it is to make things better and to work for greater good and greater wisdom. That's my meaning -- and it comes from my understanding of my position. It's not nihilism at all. It's very far from it. [More Like This WebLog] OK, I've got to read those Pullman books. 10:25:04 PM  Permalink  comment []

Ann Coulter : Republicans are not racists.Trent Lott and Strom Thurmond used to be Democrats. So Democrats are the real racists. Plus, they're commies [FARK] 10:20:28 PM  Permalink  comment []

Nestle claims £3.7m from famine-hit Ethiopia. World: Multinational corporation demands $6m payment from the world's poorest country. [Guardian Unlimited] The multinational coffee corporation, Nestle, is demanding a $6m (£3.7m) payment from the government of the world's poorest state, Ethiopia, as the country struggles to combat its worst famine for nearly 20 years. The money is compensation for an Ethiopian business which the previous military government nationalised in 1975. It could feed a million people for a month, according to Oxfam. Seems to me like it's time to stop buying Nestles products. 10:15:26 PM  Permalink  comment []

Mercury space capsule simulator now supports OS X [MacCentral] Earlier this evening I downloaded the demo version of this; it looks really fun. I'll see how it runs on my older iMac. Sounds like a must-buy to me. I grew up on Mercury and Gemini, they fed my young imagination. 9:53:38 PM  Permalink  comment []

Mars - the planet in links. Net notes: The newly built spacecraft Beagle 2 is set to search for life on Mars. Mark Oliver and Nina Goswami check out the web for vital signs from the red planet. [Guardian Unlimited] Nice bunch of links about my second favorite planet. 9:50:59 PM  Permalink  comment []

Will Gray Davis's deficit swallow California? [OpinionJournal] Just wondering, if the California deficit is Gray Davis', then does that make the national deficit George Bush's? Something tells me the Wall Street Journal doesn't think so. 9:45:13 PM  Permalink  comment []

White House to Propose System for Wide Monitoring of Internet [New York Times: Technology] Holy shit! So is this the kind of thing that will attract attention? Should you be reading it? How can anyone want the government reading your email? Let the shitstorm begin. 9:39:53 PM  Permalink  comment []

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