Classical Courts

Source: Rogue Classicism

In a strange bit of synchronicity, my spiders this week seem to have found several examples of the Classical World making appearances in American courtrooms. Earlier this week we mentioned a decision wherein justices decided (while citing Rober ...
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Is Yahoo! Finally a Buy?

Source: AOL News

On the surface, the hype -- that it "redefines" what it means to search and browse the Web -- doesn't match the reality. Axis is a browser within a browser, plugging into Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Internet Explorer. Yahoo! ...
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Is IBM Delivering a Speedier File System?

Source: Beyond Search

IBM’s Parallel file system just got a makeover, but speed and synchronization took a hit in the process. The article IBM Parks Parallel File System on Big Data’s Lawn gives us a breakdown on the pros and cons of GPFS 3.5. On ...
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Source: The Independent

Sundays were always a very special day for us. It was antithetical to every other day of our Glasgow week. Monday to Friday we immersed ourselves in Western life. Saturdays the same. We would enjoy a more than occasional visit to A ...
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Email Alert But No Email

Source: Experience Project

sometimes i hear a loud email alert, but when i check my tablet or phone, there is no new email there. it happens when i'm sleeping or half asleep. i wonder if it's someone else's email i'm hearing coming through? a s ...
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Emptiness

Source: About.com: Taoism

To my heartmind, this is largely a difference in emphasis, and of course varying ways of using language. Certainly Taoism also acknowledges inter-dependent origination -- just tends to speak it in terms of the interplay between Yin ...
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Album Review: The Shallows from I Like Trains

Source: California Literary Review

Great music acts as a direct conduit to another world. The world is internal, the avenues and features of the landscape changing with each new aural narrative, but you always know when you are there. The new album The Shallows by I Like Trains is yet an ...
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Who or What Is God?

Source: The Huffington Post

"The most beautiful and deepest experience a man can have is the sense of the mysterious. It is the underlying principle of religion, as well as, all serious endeavour. He who never had this experience, if not dead, t ...
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How Tech Has Changed The Way We Listen: Vinyl Heart

Source: Popdose.com

“I’ve said many times one of my favorite aspects of vinly is that it forces you to make a choice and commit to it, and I stand by that. It’s more than ceremonial or nostalgic. That small bit of limitation prepares me to sit down and listen for real. Othe ...
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