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23 January 2003

Big Dead Place – a highly jaundiced glimpse of what working in Antarctica is really like from an anonymous American stationed there.

I wonder if he is Phil Jacobsen, who just wrote this article for Salon?

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17 January 2003

According to this quiz my top five moral philosophers/schools would be:

1. Mill (100%)
2. Kant (93%)
3. Sartre (92%)
4. Bentham (89%)
5. Prescriptivism (73%)

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10 January 2003

Last week’s The Economist did a survey of how America and the rest of the world view each other based on three surveys – one from the Pew Research Centre on national values in 44 countries, one called Worldviews 2002 – a survey of American and European foreign policy attitudes – and the World Values Survey which interestingly arranges values on a spectrum of traditional vs rational and “quality of life” (basic survival-aligned) values vs “self-expression” values.

The results show that the US is more traditionalist than any of the developed countries surveyed except Ireland and South Africa but shares our attachment to “self-expression” values. Good old Sweden is in the high secular-rational & self-expression corner while Zimbabwe and Morocco glower in the opposite corner.free adult movies sexbest sex scenes moviesapphic doing moviesfree movie downloads adultmovie sex samplemovies women movies of nude uncensoredjob movies blowwindows maker movie Mapvideos sex senior amateuri a am transexualnatural winters abby tgp teensex amature motelreason teen of age modelsbusiness airline analysis processtexas 2007 explosion teen talentsex adult exploitation films cult female Map

9 January 2003
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Where, “P stands for Personal Characteristics, including outlook on life, adaptability and resilience. E stands for Existence and relates to health, financial stability and friendships. And H represents Higher Order needs, and covers self-esteem, expectations, ambitions and sense of humour.” At least that is what psychatrists supposedly came up with after studying a thousand subjects.

Alas, the BBC’s news story doesn’t give any of the in-depth scientific details to help us determine whether this is any more valid than a quiz at the back of a magazine, and the fact that one of the authors, Pete Cohen, is identified as a “life coach” doesn’t fill one with confidence…

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4 January 2003
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A collection of labels of 19th and early 20th C products containing now-banned drugs (including Coca Cola which contained cocaine and heroin, which was originally patented by Bayer, apparently) with brief discussion.

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30 December 2002

In the wake of Google’s Zeitgeist of 2002, both Lycos and Yahoo have provided glimpses of what people are using their search engines to search for. Dragonball (the Japanese animation series and associated products) is at or near the top for both of the other engines, as is Britney Spears, but Dragonball doesn’t appear to feature in Google’s Zeitgeist at all, and on Google Jennifer Lopez is more prominent than Britney Spears – I wonder what that says about the user demographics of each search engine.

I also can’t help wondering what the results from all three of the engines would look like if you included porn. Would sex-related searches make the top 10? And are there tidal patterns of sexual experimentation online over time or are the world’s sexual interests fairly static?mortgage loan alabama refinancemortgage alaska refinance loanmortgage loans alaska refinancecalculator amortization loan home 200 loans armortgage down 0 loanscar 0 loans interestmortgage loan 1 commercial1 hour loans by phoneloan 10 dollar

25 December 2002
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“Staff in technology jobs work in the white collar equivalent of a 19th century factory. suffering from isolation, job insecurity and long hours” says a BBC summary of a report in the American Sociological Association‘s Contexts magazine (full text not available).bi-weekly loan amortize a4.99 month 84 loan autoloans ameriquest home24102c000 personal loansafter bankruptcy loans autoloan $1000loans bridge about homeadvance loan cash arizona Map

16 December 2002

Never mind Santa Claus, Google knows who’s naughty or nice… It just published the Google 2002 Year-End Zeitgeist revealing the interests of millions across the Internet as expressed in what they search for. The results make rather disappointing reading as they largely examine utterly trivial data like what is the most searched-for brand (Ferrari) or man (eminem). Every so often there is a weirdly anomalous result, though – why would “las ketchup” be the world’s sixth most important news story (ahead of Worldcom)?

Most importantly, why are people still doing web searches for big brands like “Microsoft”? Haven’t they learned to stick “.com” at the end of the name and type that into their web browsers yet?

28 November 2002

… and compare them to adults 18-24 in nine countries around the world. You may have heard about the lamentable scores of Americans (who came second last). Only 17% of them could find Afghanistan on the map (21% of Canadians and only 28% of Brits, sad to say – the Germans were top with 55%). Now see if you could do better.

I got one wrong – I guessed the religion with the largest number of adherents wrong.
(found via Guardian Online)

25 November 2002

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