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Monthly Archives: August 2003
Word Sucks
If I weren’t so lazy, I might switch to Open Office.
to B or not to b
capitalization and its discontents: why does my word processor upper-case Zoloft but not paxil?
By Roger Parloff
“like many people, I don’t use capital letters when I type e-mail. but when I got a new computer a few months ago, it had Microsoft software that automatically capitalizes the first letters of some words. (I’m using it now.) early on, I noticed some oddities. I was writing an e-mail to a friend about the campaign-financing scandals of the Clinton administration, and I referred to a very peripheral figure named Pauline konchanalak, whose last name I inadvertently misspelled. on second reference, I happened, with equal inadvertence, to spell her name correctly. but this time the surname popped up as Kanchanalak! Microsoft knew to capitalize Kanchanalak and yet not konchanalak!”
Immoral Majority
The Church should not be a democracy. To put it another way, in the words of G.K. Chesterton, “Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around. “
Episcopalians approve gay bishop
“MINNEAPOLIS – The Episcopal Church voted Tuesday to approve the election of its first openly gay bishop, a decision that risks splitting the denomination and shattering ties with its sister churches worldwide.”
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In comments after the vote, Bishop Robert Duncan of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, spoke for those opposed to Robinson’s approval, saying they were “filled with sorrow” and feel a “grief too deep for words.”
“This body has denied the plain teaching of Scripture and the moral consensus of the church throughout the ages,” Duncan said. “This body has divided itself from millions of Anglican Christians throughout the world.”
AI Spy
Snoop Doggy DOD is starting to really get on my nerves.
Helping Machines Think Different
By Noah Shachtman
“To Pentagon researchers, capturing and categorizing every aspect of a person’s life is only the beginning. LifeLog — the controversial Defense Department initiative to track everything about an individual — is just one step in a larger effort, according to a top Pentagon research director. Personalized digital assistants that can guess our desires should come first. And then, just maybe, we’ll see computers that can think for themselves. “
No Future for Futures
I’m a little behind on reporting this. Apparently, not everyone in Washington is braindead.
Pentagon Abandons Plan for Futures Market on Terror
By CARL HULSE
“WASHINGTON, July 29 — The Pentagon office that proposed spying electronically on Americans to monitor potential terrorists has quickly abandoned an idea in which anonymous speculators would have bet on forecasting terrorist attacks, assassinations and coups in an online futures market.”