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Posted in general science, horror, philosophy, psychology, real life, tagged , , on October 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

It’s Halloween time, so as one would expect, many ghostly happenings have been … happening.
A few nights ago I had a lovely date night with myself. I got some snacks and some wine, turned off all the lights except for a single candle, and sat down to watch a scary movie. I’d never seen The [...]

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Book Review: Under the Banner of Heaven, by Jon Krakauer

Posted in book reviews, horror, philosophy, psychology, tagged , on October 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Review of the book Under the Banner of Heaven, by Jon Krakauer.

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Reaction to Accusations of Police Brutality at the University of Western Ontario

Posted in philosophy, psychology, real life on October 16, 2009 | 6 Comments »

On October 14th, police took down a dangerous man at UWO. Here is my reaction to it.

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Fighting Sexism With Sexism in the Horror Genre?

Posted in horror, media, philosophy, writing on September 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Comment on the accusations of sexism leveled at the British Fantasy Society for failing to include any female authors in a recent interview compilation.

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The Emotion of WTF

Posted in media, philosophy, psychology, tagged , , on July 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

WTF isn’t just shorthand; it’s a feeling with no other word to describe it.

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Secondhand Transmission from a Distant World

Posted in general science, misc, philosophy, writing, tagged , , , , , on April 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Everyone is an alien to someone.
I’m in my late 20s. To anyone under the age of 18 today, I’m from a world they have never been to, and never will. A world we call the 1980s. It was inhabited by creatures with big curly hair that listened to cheesy pop music and grazed [...]

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LHC

Posted in general science, philosophy, technology on September 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »

I love Google’s title image for today:

It’s a nice mix of recognizing an extremely important scientific accomplishment with just a pinch of end-of-the-world paranoia.
The truth is that the world has about the same chance of ending today as it did yesterday. But I think the dimwitted people protesting the large hadron collider [...]

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Arthur C. Clarke, RIP

Posted in book reviews, media, philosophy, psychology, real life, technology on March 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Arthur C. Clarke died today (*). The man was a genius. I’ve only recently started reading his books, but his impact has been felt throughout my life. Nearly every piece of science fiction created since the 50s owes something to Clarke. More directly, seeing 2001: A Space Odyssey as a kid, [...]

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Book Review: The Singularity is Near, by Ray Kurzweil

Posted in book reviews, general science, philosophy, technology on November 19, 2007 | 6 Comments »

The singularity refers to a time, sometime in the future, when machines become more intelligent than biological humans, and technology begins to improve rapidly as a result. The Singularity is Near is Ray Kurzweil’s attempt to justify his belief that the singularity is coming sooner than most people think, and what consequences it will [...]

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Book Review: The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1), by Phillip Pullman

Posted in book reviews, general science, philosophy on May 31, 2007 | 1 Comment »

The Golden Compass is actually called Northern Lights in every place except North America. I guess the publishers thought that kids would get confused, because they would not know what lights could possibly be doing in the north. Never mind that the book never refers to the titular object as a compass; that’s not [...]

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