Daily Archives: July 19, 2024

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    • Uselessness

    By Frank Paynter | Published: July 19, 2024

    Fighting clinical depression is inevitably a lonely struggle. What could be less conducive to compassion than a disease that make you whine? Laymen and loved ones tell you to get a grip. They make you feel ashamed to be sick. Even if they’re more enlightened about the disease, they can’t help but harbor a secret, [...]

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    On listing the author of the post when the content is by another…

    By Frank Paynter | Published: July 19, 2024

    It annoys me from a compositional perspective. It’s not like I’m taking credit for Sonnet 29. I’m taking credit for the post. And I suspect there are places like TechMeme that hook into that author function, and if I suppress it in WordPress’s “Loop” then it is removed from all posts, so I can’t make [...]

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    Vertical expectoration…

    By Frank Paynter | Published: July 19, 2024

    Buddhism, she explained, “has no self built into it.You don’t have independently existing selves or objects. They’re codependent.”

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    By Frank Paynter | Published: July 19, 2024

    When in disgrace with Fortune and men’s eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries And look upon myself and curse my fate. Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featur’d like him, like him with friends possessed, Desiring this man’s art and that man’s [...]

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    While Bush Farts and Fondles…

    By Frank Paynter | Published: July 19, 2024

    This album is powered by BubbleShare – Add to my blog The never ending massacre in Palestine. Link to slides courtesy of YblogZA.

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    Disclosure or stinky cheese…

    By Frank Paynter | Published: July 19, 2024

    Steve Rubel (a PR guy who works for Edelman, another PR guy doing, presumably, PR) shares the following regarding the Pew Internet Project study released today: As Reuters correctly notes, the research demonstrates that blogging is moving more mainstream, thanks to the surging interest in social network/blog hybrid sites such as MySpace and LiveJournal (MySpace [...]

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    Foodie Alert

    By Frank Paynter | Published: July 19, 2024

    David Weinberger, eating vegetarian although he doesn’t much like vegetables, describes his anniversary dinner at Susur. “The paler one is a comfit of Brazilian pear puree, run twice through the small fingers of a boy who sings alto, topped by a black olive puree marinated in the juice of two pomegranite seeds blessed by the [...]

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    Pew report: Bloggers – A portrait of the internet’s new storytellers

    By Frank Paynter | Published: July 19, 2024

    There are now about twelve million American bloggers, ninety percent of whom read other people’s blogs and forty-nine percent of whom have been blogging for more than a year. There are also fifty-seven million blog readers (including over ten million bloggers) according to a Pew report released today. Lee Rainie, Director of the Pew Internet [...]

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