The beauty of everything is infinite and cruel

I will be at the Chicago Humanities Festival until sometime on Sunday. When I get a chance, this post will be expanded into a write-up. The Chicago Humanities Festival is in its 17th year, having grown from a small, one-day event for Chicago residents to a multi-week festival that draws students from all over the [...]

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§1496 · November 7, 2006 · 9 comments · Tags: , , , ,


Boy Scouts in the Los Angeles area will now be able to earn a merit patch for learning about the evils of downloading pirated movies and music. [...] The movie industry has developed the curriculum. “Working with the Boy Scouts of Los Angeles, we have a real opportunity to educate a new generation about how [...]

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§1473 · October 23, 2006 · 2 comments · Tags: , , , ,


YouTube is no stranger to the news recently. One of the media darlings of the Web 2.0 wave, it is one of those phenomenons that offered nothing more than infrastructure and an iffy interface, but managed to become a brand-name behemoth because of user content. Now it faces two problems: first, how the hell do [...]

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§1472 · October 22, 2006 · (No comments) · Tags: , , , , , , ,


200+ lines from the Star Wars trilogy made funny by substituting the word ‘pants.’ Hat tip: Scott @ ExtraLife

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§1410 · October 4, 2006 · 2 comments · Tags: , ,


Katie Holmes was raised a Catholic, but, says fiance Tom Cruise, their soon-to-arrive baby will not have a Catholic baptism. “No,” Cruise tells Diane Sawyer in an interview on ABC’s “Primetime,” airing Friday night in the U.S. “No, I mean you can be Catholic and be a Scientologist. You can be Jewish and be a [...]

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§1092 · April 15, 2006 · (No comments) · Tags: , ,


Apropos of nothing, I saw this the other day, and I was actually quite taken by it. Reading it actually made me feel a little better about the coherency of the trilogy.

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§1062 · March 29, 2006 · (No comments) · Tags: