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Set your TV recording devices for “How Art Made The World”, Tuesdays at 2030hrs. on Channel 2 (Sorry, ABC1 Dr. Nigel Spivey hosts a very cool show about how art came about, and what it’s done since then. Next week’s episode, The Art of Persuasion. This week’s episode included some pretty cool cave paintings.
[Edit: Next week is The hunt for HMAS Sydney in that timeslot, so the next episode of How Art Made the World is 8th April 2008]

My personal suspicion is that Facebook was created to provide a massive data repository to be mined and fed to the facial recognition software of the US Government, along with the relationships of everyone in the network. I’d guess you could test it by creating a Facebook account for Osama bin Laden and sticking in a picture of John Howard as the userpic.

You may want to try Hatebook or Assbook.

Not only does Beg The Question have its own web site, you can also buy merchandise.

The Five Love Languages

My primary love languages are probably
Acts of Service and Quality Time.

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Unhappiness in relationships, according to Dr. Gary Chapman, is often due to the fact that we speak different love languages. Sometimes we don’t understand our partner’s requirements, or even our own. We all have a “love tank” that needs to be filled in order for us to express love to others, but there are different means by which our tank can be filled, and there are different ways that we can express love to others.

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Thanks to the Pirates Wikia (beware spoilers :):

The King and his men stole the Queen from her bed
And bound her in her bones.
The seas be ours and by the powers
Where we will, we’ll roam.
Yo ho, haul together, hoist the colours high
Heave ho, thieves and beggars, never shall we die!

If you’re a fan of Scientific American’s Douglas Hofstadter (of “Godel, Escher, Bach” fame), you may enjoy the podcast of his lecture at Stanford University titled “Analogy as the core of Human Cognition”. (on Stanford iTunesU).

I checked out this blog’s He/She ratio, and it’s 43% to 57%. If you chuck in ‘it’ as well you get 16%/21%/62%.

Apparently my Daemon is (currently) Olyandra, a female Jackal. Does that mean I can have CJ as my familiar?

You scored as Capt. Lee Adama (Apollo). You have spent your life trying to life up to and impress your Dad, shame he never seemed to notice. You are a stickler for the rules. But in matters of loyalty and honour you know when they have to be broken. Capt. Lee Adama (Apollo) 88% Tom Zarek 75% Lt. Kara Thrace (Starbuck) 69% CPO Galen Tyrol 63% Number 6 63% Commander William Adama 63% President Laura Roslin 56% Lt. Sharon Valerii (Boomer) 56% Dr Gaius Baltar 56% Col. Saul Tigh 50%

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