January 2010
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Beyond Theology by Alan Watts
I read this over the past few days and give it a big recommendation to anyone who would like to explore the idea of rescuing Christianity from the pulpits of the literalists.
In this work, Watts uses Vedanta to give new life to the Christian tradition, and then turns things around to show us how this new interpretation of Christianity can actually improve or complete Vedanta - something I did...
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I finally closed down my old site, retiring that domain for some other day.
I’ve also been letting boatloads of domains expire instead of renewing them. It’s good to clean out the closet from time to time.
Ommwriter →
From the site:
A wise man once said “We are all at the mercy of our wild monkey minds. Incessantly swinging from branch to branch.” With multiple windows and applications all vying for our attention, we have sadly adapted our working habits to that of the computer and not the other way around.
Ommwriter is a humble attempt to recapture what technology has snatched away from us...
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Apple and Red Cross accepting Haiti donations via... →
mrgan:
Apple and the Red Cross worked together to create a frictionless way to donate to the Haiti relief effort through iTunes. Click the link (or hit the iTunes Store on your own) and pick your amount - that’s it.
It’s that easy. If you have $10 (or more), send it on to those in need.
“The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what...”
– Ernest Hemingway via Boost your productivity with Hemingway’s hack
“My more perceptive readers may be wondering at this point whether I’m seriously...”
– The Archdruid Report: Housebreaking the Corporations
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Things UNIX can do automically →
This is a catalog of things UNIX-like/POSIX-compliant operating systems can do atomically, making them useful as building blocks for thread-safe and multi-process-safe programs without mutexes or read/write locks. The list is by no means exhaustive and I expect it to be updated frequently for the foreseeable future.