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Academic Podcasts

Most universities have recently restriced access to their actual course lecture podcasts. Instead, they now typically offer boring crap or political keynote lectures. However, Berkeley still offers public access to complete semester course lectures going back several years. Hopefully, they keep it up.   http://webcast.berkeley.edu/courses.php
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'74 '75

A favorite that I haven't heard in a loooong time. The video will probably cause a little retrospection. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmp-aGq2SqM
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Militites!

I'm enjoying my first ever glass of militites from the Meadery of the Rockies. I chose the semi-sweet Guinevere, and I have to say that this is very drinkable though I might go with a drier mead next time. I can taste things in the honey that are not normally noticable when it's consumed raw. Anyone else have a mead that they'd recommend?
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Neurosis

I just picked up this album tonight and I'm really enjoying it, though I'm not sure that anyone reading this would...   As someone who's spent countless hours listening to the 20+ years worth of their music, I consider this to be some of the finest.
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New Slew Of Books

After finishing my last round of books, (one of which was 'Ilium' by Dan Simmons, the most enjoyable science fiction book I've read in a while) I picked up a few more to read. I like to read several books at once, not only because my obsessive attention to things swings wildly about, but also because even the most disparate books can sometimes profoundly enhance each other in strange ways.   Brave New World & Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley   A History of Western Philosophy b
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Raison D'Etre

I stopped by the local liquor store to see if I might find some Chateau Jiahu, to no avail. Not all was lost, since they did have some Raison D'Etre. I really enjoy adventurous brews like this, especially when one spirituous coppery glass can make me all warm and fuzzy.
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Independence

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government,
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Vangelis/Neuronium Improv 1982

Vangelis is the first electronic music that I ever remember hearing. Needless to say, its made a huge impact on my musical tastes. Strap on your full size headphones and enjoy!  
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We're all gonna die...

Word has it, from a devout Christian in my family, that something bad will happen in 2007 and that anyone who is not Christian and does not support George Bush will die. Just thought you'd all like to know... better repent and vote for a neocon
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Der Struwwelpeter

http://www.fln.vcu.edu/struwwel/struwwel.html I read this 19th century picture book (with these exact illustrations, but a different translation) when I was young, like my mother did and her parents did. What a trip...
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Hate-speech? Ungood!

http://www.reason.com/news/show/120405.html   Is it just me or is this the most Orwellian thing you've seen since Britain's proto-telescreens?
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Terrible Lie

This is quite a bit different from the last post.   This is for all those who shared an upbringing similar to mine. I'm posting it mainly because this is the best (most intense) performance of this song that I've seen.   Hey God...
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The Pinpoint Search

What is privacy?   http://www.reason.com/news/show/117074.html   Also, I picked up a hardcover of Steven Pressfield's 'The Virtues of War' for $6!! Woooo!
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Beer

Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drink I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn't drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, "It is better that I drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver." -- Jack Handy   If you ever reach total enlightenment while drinking beer, I bet it makes beer
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Politics and the English Language

It's Orwell again. I can think of a few here who might appreciate this. http://www.george-orwell.org/Politics_and_...Language/0.html   It makes me think of Common Sense.
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Can Socialists Be Happy?

A Christmas essay from Orwell, whom I find an absolute pleasure to read, written exactly 63 years ago.   http://www.online-literature.com/orwell/895/
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Still Here

Where to start? I haven't been terribly active here lately, though I do check in roughly once a day. Interest in specifically Roman things has waned a bit an I find that I have less to contribute than normal, if that is possible I'm inescapably trapped in fervent book reading for the moment, to the point that any moment when I cannot read (any time that I'm driving) I'm engrossed in podcasts of academic lectures.   I've put a link to some of these in the block to the right. I'm currently lis
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Maoist Roots

Here's another little excerpt gleaned from the Underground History of American Education, recounting the influence, in China, of the same prominent ideologues that influenced much of our educational system.   From 'Education and the Philosophy of Experimentalism', John Childs - 1931
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Banksy

http://www.banksy.co.uk/   I just looked through the whole site at one sitting, and thought that some people here might enjoy some of it. Actually, the thing that I found most interesting wasn't any of the imagery, but one of the email responses: Spoken like a 'true believer.' I might even be able to cut the irony with a knife.
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Digital Maoism

http://edge.org/documents/archive/edge183.html   An interesting read for me, adds more perspective to what I do online.
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Current

I usually do not watch much television. The exeptions are a few shows on the Discovery/History/Science channels and the sitcom, 'The Office.' Recently, I was looking at the dazzling array of crap that I pay a monthly fee for, trying to somehow justify the cost other than just accepting that my wife watches more tv than I do. As I was skipping through, I stumbled upon a show that at first seemed documentary-ish but was actually some footage of three guys exploring miles of tunnels underneath Pari
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