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Entries from July 2008

Comment on Blogs from Within Google Reader

July 31st, 2008 · 5 Comments

This piece from Lorelle on Wordpress just made my blogging experience much easier.  If you use Firefox and the Greasemonkey extension it’s simple: just install the user script, restart FireFox and you’re good to go.  Now you can use the “preview” link at the bottom of each feed to comment on blogs, articles, etc without [...]

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War, Violence, and the Psychology of Indifference: Final Thoughts

July 31st, 2008 · No Comments

Part I: Only Americans Matter
Part II: We Draw Our Circle too Small
Part III: Patriotic Fixations
Part IV: Media Violence and the Ease of Abstraction

I suppose it’s time to wrap this series up.  It’s been a couple of weeks since I posted on this topic, so let’s revisit a few things.
In Part one, I introduced the overall [...]

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George Orwell to become a Blogger

July 30th, 2008 · No Comments

George Orwell will become a blogger in about ten days.  According to this article in the Telegraph, Orwell’s diaries will be published online exactly 70 years after they were written: “Running until 1942 the diaries cover the start of the Second World War as well as Orwell’s own travels to Morocco following the illness and [...]

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