thanks hailey for passing this meme to me i appreciate it.mimi the queen of memes the creator of the peace globes the author of blogblast for peace has come up with a brilliant idea. she is treating her peace globes as a meme to spread this wonderful event. im going to jump on board and i challenge you to copy and paste this meme on your site and tag absolutely everyone in the blogosphere. heres w...
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a regular reader of mine and owner of a fine daily read of mine sandee from comedy plus a fantastic daily comedy blog has passed me on this important meme. sandee saidmy pal mimi the queen of memes the creator of the peace globes the author of blogblast for peace has come up with a brilliant idea. she is treating her peace globes as a meme to spread this wonderful event. im going to jump on board ...
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a press release rehashed as a news article on the bbc website today lie detector software saves a500k states lie detector software has saved a south london council almost a500000 it was losing through benefit fraud. during a phone call voice risk analysis vra software analyses minute changes in the voices of those claiming benefits to see if they are lying. during the pilot almost 1700 people we...
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i recall reading with fascination how frogs go about catching flies so easily. the claim was made that the neural mechanisms associated with frog eyes preprocess visual data in such a way thatthe eye speaks to the brain in a language already highly organized and interpreted instead of transmitting some more or less accurate copy of the distribution of light on the receptors.1 the result is a ra...
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conservatives have long held the view that hollywood is full of bleeding heart liberals who are destroying our culture despite the clear evidence that there have been and still are very prominent conservative actors. the hypothesis that hollywood is full of liberals should mean among other things that they find ethnic and racial slurs offensive. first we had a white catholic engaging in antisemi...
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nearly seven months ago i blogged on the possibility that iraq was already suffering a civil war despite the strong protestations by the bush administrations that it was not. today a national intelligence estimate which i picked up from the washington post and you should be able easily to find came out saying the intelligence community judges that the term civil war does not adequately capture t...
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the news has not been a good source for blog material in recent weeks so i googled my own blog to see if i could find some some reactions to it that were of interest and found one that was very troubled by my blog on the language of the abortion controversy. the reply concerns my claim that language does not determine thought as the novelist orwell or the linguists whorf and sapir would have it b...
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i began looking at the issue of the evolution of language because of a philosopher friends claim that it is somehow obvious that human language is a natural evolutionary development of primate communication systems. as far as i can tell this is false. what is clearer is that this thesis cannot be proved to be true. there is in fact not a shred of evidence for it. there have been cognitive deve...
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some months ago a friend of mine wrote an oped piece for the columbus dispatch that was very critical of american policy toward israel. i knew that some of what he said would likely draw the ire of supporters of israel. what i didnt expect was how irrational and vitriolic the responses would be. the first response was from a rabbi whose writing was shockingly intemperate. i only have access now...
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youve done this email test right the one where they get you to add up some numbers then quickly think of a colour and a tool low and behold you thought of a red hammer and you receive your declaration of normality. well i received the email yet again today so of course the time had come to resort to google. the language guy check out his creds had a few thoughts on the test and im with him all ...
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in my graduate english conversation class this morning one of the students brought up the topic of the proposal which has been floating around for a few years that english be made japans second official language. one of the students voiced the opinion that such a move would be meaningless that english proficiency is a skill which individuals should seek to acquire should it prove valuable in the...
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