Archive for March, 2005
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Thursday, March 31st, 2005Today, as Mrs. Schiavo died, Boundless posted “If I End Up Like Terri: An Open Letter to My Wife.” As Sister Chabel (spelling) at Gift of Peace house in D.C. said, She is in heaven now, we need to pray for her husband, her family, and all those involved in this mess. We also need to [...]
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Thursday, March 31st, 2005I find it rather ironic that I posted about cyborgs only yesterday considering this BBC article. Scientists have now developed a way to implant a computer chip such that the brain can control it, it can read some “brain waves,” and let you control electrical devices. Examples include TV power, channel, and volume. They hope to extend this [...]
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Wednesday, March 30th, 2005I can now receive and display trackback pings. Many many thanks to Vincas for translating the perl-ish specifications and examples into something I could understand, and for helping me think through the design. He has also promised to write me something to be able to send them with. Very cool, this little home-brew set-up is joining [...]
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Wednesday, March 30th, 2005Cyborgs come a step closer with The Power Knee™, an artificial knee with “an advanced type of artificial intelligence” that lets the knee replace “concentric muscle activity” as well as the “excentric muscle work” that other artificial knees can mimic.
Justice and Order as related to End of Life Decisions
Tuesday, March 29th, 2005First I would like to thank meghatronn, some unknown commenter on Joe Duffy’s blog, for finding Joint Statement On The Vegetative State from the International Congress On Life-Sustaining Treatments and Vegetative State: Scientific Advances and Ethical Dilemmas” (ROME, 10-17 March 2004). I most likely would not have found it otherwise. I would like to [...]
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Monday, March 28th, 2005I have not, however, been producing valid xhtml. To do so, I need to remember to url encode my links, and also, apparently, a “blockquote” cannot appear inside a paragraph. I have to end the paragraph, start the blockquote, and then start a paragraph after ending the blockquote. The logic appears to be that the [...]
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Monday, March 28th, 2005According to feedvalidator.org, it seems that pretty much everything except some of the &s in urls and the <p> tags are acceptable. This pleases me, as the hack of including html when I should not was somewhat distressing. The sample is fairly representative, with some html entities, and some of the formatting tags I commonly use. [...]
Public-Private partnerships
Friday, March 25th, 2005According to Ars Technica, Virginia’s legislature wants to make broadband Internet a public service like water, electricity, or phones. Hannibal, the Ars guy, is in favor of this (he also came down on people who distrust the FEC, and turns out was badly wrong), but I really cannot see why. He claims [...]
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Thursday, March 24th, 2005There is little like a need to refute something to get ideas moving. In a reply to Joe Duffy’s recent post, I wrote the following:
okay, something finally motivated me to take up Ederlyn’s advice to create an account just so I can comment on posts here. I haven’t been incredibly motivated to do so since I’ve been using [...]
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Thursday, March 24th, 2005I was going to try to avoid repeating what you could read everywhere else today, so I wasn’t going to post anything about Mrs. Schiavo. But then I read two townhall.com articles in a row, “The great quandary,” by William F. Buckley, and “The right to kill Terri Schiavo,” by Maggie Gallagher. Mr. Buckley is defending the rule of [...]
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