Posts matching tags 'netscape'
2007/12/29
2007/12/29
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The Skeletal Lamping artwork does look a bit Henry Darger (12/10)
just picked up the new Of Montreal CD (and the bonus CD it came with) (12/10)
I wish I could fly to New York now to see this: http://tinyurl.com/4742yj (12/10)
Hmm.. Momus is giving a talk in London next Tuesday: http://imomus.livejournal.com/../405514.html (12/10)
The small Linux box in my room and the broadband router/modem are now on a UPS. (12/10)
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2007/10/12
Evolutionary psychologist and language specialist Steven Pinker has an article on the neurology and psychology of swearing , how obscene language differs from regular language and whence it gets its power to perturb: The upshot is2006/10/11
A US lawyer has noticed plugging a dangerous hole in the world's intellectual-property regime, a hole which costs chefs and restauranteurs untold godzillions of dollars: the fact that food cannot be copyrighted, and it is perfectly2003/10/12
Evolutionary psychologists look at how music could possibly have come about : Since music draws on so many of the brain's faculties, it vouches for the health of the organ as a whole. And since music