January 2012
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ssh attack from 1.214.194.114
Port 22 on the local network here was forwarded earlier this week and just yesterday the IP was linked to foran.mooo.com via http://freedns.afraid.org/ (which I came to through the dd-wrt ddns dropdown options) Tonight, a virtual terminal got spammed with some message I wish I’d thought to copy. It involved the words ssh and root. I stopped the ssh deamon and killed all sshd process,...
December 2010
2 posts
Paul Baribeau - Christmas Lights
Christmas Lights by Paul Baribeau Download now or listen on posterous christmas lights.mp3 (2444 KB) fresh snow on the suburbs staying at my parents it hasn’t been a good year but things are all right here sleeping in the spare room that used to be my bedroom even though I’m home now I feel completely homeless I’m looking at the...
The amazing hereditary inheritance
My uncle(s) are awesome! See the full gallery on posterousOn the refrigerator white board: To whom it may concern, i would like to know why there s a decomposed rodent on top of the pourch. Love, Addison The management of this house is under no obligation to explain it’s actions to it’s tenants. Sincerely, The Management Posted via email from | Comment » ...
November 2010
2 posts
BBC News - Alcohol 'more harmful than heroin' says...
546via 7bbc.co.uk Posted via email from | Comment »
BBC News - Sleep loss 'worse for extroverts'
suggesting it is “social stimulation” that tires out the parts of the extroverts’ brains linked to alertness. via bbc.co.uk Posted via email from | Comment »
September 2010
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Max Levine Ensemble - Summer, Like the Season
Summer, Like The Season by The Max Levine Ensemble Download now or listen on posterous SummerLikeTheSeason.mp3 (3148 KB) A song to close out the season. it’s too late now to think of what you could have been, she said as she braved the cooling air, and though you’ll try, you’ll never escape that feeling, there’s a place you’d rather be, but you’re not...
August 2010
5 posts
"Life"
via i.imgur.com Posted via email from | Comment »
Op-Ed Columnist - Moonshine or the Kids? -...
if the poorest families spent as much money educating their children as they do on wine, cigarettes and prostitutes, their children’s prospects would be transformed. Much suffering is caused not only by low incomes, but also by shortsighted private spending decisions by heads of households. via nytimes.com Posted via email from | Comment »
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Tim Wise - The Pathology of White Privilege
via video.google.com Somewhere in there Tim Wise briefly mentions white history month is every month not explicitly designated otherwise. This is obvious as he points out. However, he claims this is why there is no need for a white history month. I would suggest the opposite. Because such a month is implicit is exactly why it should be explicit. If students and media were to try to celebrate it,...
[Documentary] Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the...
via youtube.com Posted via email from | Comment »
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“Self-sufficiency: we call that poverty these days” - Posted via email from | Comment »
June 2010
6 posts
Hans Rosling shows the best stats you've ever seen
via ted.com Important to watch. “North” v “South” or industrialized v developing dichotomy is a 1960s hold over. It is misleading today. The follow up is linked below. He swallows a sword at the end. http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_reveals_new_insights_on_poverty.html Posted via web from PeerReviewedorNot | Comment »
The End of Men - Magazine - The Atlantic
Yes, the U.S. still has a wage gap, one that can be convincingly explained—at least in part—by discrimination. Yes, women still do most of the child care. And yes, the upper reaches of society are still dominated by men. But given the power of the forces pushing at the economy, this setup feels like the last gasp of a dying age rather than the permanent establishment. via theatlantic.com ...
You Are Not So Smart
There are anecdotal accounts of people seeing the prisoners of concentration camps for the first time and assuming they must have been terrible criminals. The first place the mind goes is the place where the world is just. Why do you do this? via youarenotsosmart.com The article address the consequences of the just-world fallacy that is apparently innate. The ill, rape victims, and the...
You Are Not So Smart
There are anecdotal accounts of people seeing the prisoners of concentration camps for the first time and assuming they must have been terrible criminals. The first place the mind goes is the place where the world is just. Why do you do this? via youarenotsosmart.com Posted via web from | Comment »
You Are Not So Smart
There are anecdotal accounts of people seeing the prisoners of concentration camps for the first time and assuming they must have been terrible criminals. The first place the mind goes is the place where the world is just. Why do you do this? via youarenotsosmart.com The article address the consequences of the just-world fallacy that is apparently innate. The ill, rape victims, and the...
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing...
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. ~ Voltaire via reddit.com Posted via web from | Comment »
RSA Animate - The Empathic Civilisation
via youtube.com This video, further endorsing my world view: “act always with empathy,” is impressive both in illustration and message. Though, despite having long adopting an at least similar perspective, my understanding is weak. Why does utilitarianism conflict with empathy? Posted via web from | Comment »
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True Lies | The New Republic
Thus Kuran emphasizes an important and often neglected fact: that private pressure can impair liberty, and obstacles to free speech and honest interchange often come from our fellow citizens. The desire to protect one’s reputation, by declining to say things that other people think bizarre or offensive, is deeply rooted in human beings; and so Kuran finds a crucial distinction between a...
May 2010
5 posts
Waking Life - Fear or Laziness?
via youtube.com the movie (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0243017/) was posted in it’s entirety and linked on reddit. http://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/c7ypa/waking_life_full_watch_disc…. This scene and the one comparing internalization and social mannerisms to the behavior of ants have not left my discourse in the three years since I first saw them. Posted via web ...
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Make Do and Mend - Shambles
Shambles by Make Do And Mend Download now or listen on posterous 01 - Shambles.mp3 (3094 KB) If Brand New were nihilists, they would sound like this. I don’t believe in anything worth fighting for, worth dying for. I don’t believe the clouds are hiding much more than a reason to downpour. So what would you do if you were me? Give up, forget, and go...
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Murder By Death - Foxglove
Foxglove by Murder By Death Download now or listen on posterous 09 Foxglove.mp3 (5871 KB) A girl came in the night She brought me a fever She laid her hands upon my head ‘Till I was burning up I woke alone I was still burning The fire was all that was left All that’s left of you It was always you It was always you It was always you It was...
April 2010
2 posts
The Hours - Ali In The Jungle
Music from a Nike commercial Ali In The Jungle by The Hours Download now or listen on posterous 01. Ali In The Jungle.mp3 (10956 KB) Posted via email from | Comment »
Teaching Math
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February 2010
4 posts
Radical Faces - Wrapped in Piano Strings
Wrapped In Piano Strings by Radical Face Download now or listen on posterous 06 Wrapped In Piano Strings.mp3 (5212 KB) I saw your father in the hall His ghost is living in the walls I heard him crying while you slept I heard him breaking things after you leftI watched you crawl into my bed With curses spilling from your head You said...
Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and...
Not everyone has to be a professional programmer any more than everyone has to be a professional carpenter. But in this day and age where computers are such an essential skill we do have to look at setting the bars higher. In my grandfather’s age people had to have a lot higher level of carpentry skill and kids were taught it. Computer usage may be this generation’s carpentry. Programming...
The Nature of Self or Lack There Of
via youtube.com via reddit ( http://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/b1g33/soul_searching_documentary_on_the_nature_of_self/ ) Posted via web from Will’s posterous | Comment »
Vietnam Werewolf - You Can't Do That On Television
You Can’t Do That On Television by Vietnam Werewolf Download now or listen on posterous 11 You Can’t Do That On Television.mp3 (5152 KB) I’ll play this until I exhaust whatever novelty has me stuck on it now. There is a lot of an As Friends Rust sound but mid-song it transforms into something more alluring. There is some sort of...
January 2010
5 posts
Mind Reading, Brain Fingerprinting and the Law
Brain fingerprinting purportedly tests for ‘guilty knowledge,’ or memory of a kind that only a guilty person could have. Other forms of guilt detection, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), are based on the assumption that lying and truth-telling are associated with distinctive activity in different areas of the brain. These and other potential forms of ‘mind...
Faux Friendship - The Chronicle Review
The past should stay in the heart, where it belongs. via chronicle.com more facebook hating. Posted via web from Will’s posterous | Comment »
Robert Sapolsky: The uniqueness of humans
via ted.com (start at 5min) Posted via web from Will’s posterous | Comment »
End of a Year - Beleaders
Beleaders by End Of A Year Download now or listen on posterous 03-end_of_a_year-beleaders.mp3 (4301 KB) From the music-no-one-else-likes department comes the band End of a Year from Troy, NY. I’ve always associated my time in Troy with 80’s post-hardcore (i.e. Embrace). It must be something inspired by the architecture and climate. These...
Financial Wealth in the U.S.
via beforeitsnews.com With a framework constructed through the analogy of capitalism as a democracy where votes are cash, securing the interest of Additional, still operating within this analogy and citing the same source (in turn citing Wolff 2009), that the 20% financial minority (90% of the population) holds 73% of the debt and This is a far cry from the meritocracy (American mythos)...
December 2009
2 posts
toothless
What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: ‘This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more’ … Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have...
Cantabile plants
I watered plants with part coffee residue Posted via email from Will’s posterous | Comment »
November 2009
2 posts
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Jury analogy for legislation
When I voted for the two items on the county ballot, I felt uninformed and useless. I shouldn’t have voted. Why was there no literature in the area to explain if inmates working for non-profits was extortion or rehabilitation? And, would it have been unfair to have more detail about the land trade between state and utility company? Oregon has an interesting solution. Similarly, on the...
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“In losing all semblance of coherence to a former self
You know I am becoming...”
– AM - Problems
October 2009
2 posts
1 tag
“Eight of the men were ordinary, sexually speaking. The other seven suffered from...”
– The Brain: Where Does Sex Live in the Brain? From Top to Bottom. | Sex & the Brain | DISCOVER Magazine
“Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the...”
– Albert Camus
September 2009
7 posts
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Pink & Blue: Gender and Children - DivineCaroline →
scary pictures
“People are often criticized for not doing what they think is right (hypocrisy),...”
– A Short Course in Ethics (Aaron Swartz’s Raw Thought)
“Precisely those things that seem to signal we’re learning well — easy...”
– Want to Remember Everything You’ll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm
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“We can’t do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the...”
– Banksy in Wall and Piece
there were five
Woke up in time to shower before driving to Syracuse. Dresser, backpack, plant, and notebooks traveled with me to Sarah’s new room. We, that is myself and the inanimate objects, made it without a wrong turn (or a GPS navigator), despite the interesting directions given by dad. While I was in Sarah’s room and while she was not, a maintenance guy came to replace her broken overhead...
Google Wave
I remember reading an underwhelmed computer scientist describing the state of computer technology as lacking innovation. Instead, this unattributed rant continued, computers were used in novel ways to advance only conventional communication paradigms. That is, software totally fails to exploit the real power of current technology. It seems google’s Wave could be an answer to this. This is a...
memory loss
When I try to imagine what it’d be like to have a mind fried by exorbitant drug use or other serious brain trauma, I imagine how I feel now. I cannot remember even the most habitual without considerable effort. The frequency at which I find this state is concerning. I’ll excuse it as exhaustion, a relieving but conciously inadequate explanation. Anyway, time is passing as an...
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“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
– Socrates, in Plato, Dialogues, Apology
August 2009
15 posts
Lobster
Blisters! I’ve never been so badly burnt. Before this, Tom and I were enjoying the beach. We even recruited some to play ultimate. A guy, two girls, and their mom. They had to make the field shorter so anyone could score. Three points made the game. Afterward, we (I, Tom, and his cousins once removed) wandered, at one point walking over a dead and decaying fish the size of me. We covered 2...
Can't Keep Up
Came into Troy around 9 entering the get-together by (allegedly) bruising Sam’s boob with a tossed 12 pack of knock-off brand soda. An act I could not live down. It detracted from Sam’s amazing new haircut and the surprise of seeing Audra. Besides Audra and Sam, Chloe was the only other familiar face. Despite the small numbers, I was still overwhelmed. I left for a bit to explore...