Yearly Archives: 2002

Left-Handed People and the Catholic Church

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Did you know that “Centuries ago, the Catholic Church declared left-handed people to be servants of the Devil? For generations, left-handers who attended Catholic schools were forced to become right-handed. They justified this belief on the basis of several bible quotations that stigmatized left-handedness.

There are also quite a few superstitions about being left-handed. It wasn’t until we realized, in the last century or so, that there are legitimate biological reasons for left-handedness, that people were no longer forced to use their right hand. I’m not the only person who sees the parallels between being left-handed and being gay. You can read a lot more about left-handedness at this site.

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Letter to America

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Wow, this letter to America is an eye-opener. To the rest of America, that is– they seem to be freaking out about this letter all over the net. I, on the other hand, have been saying some of the same things, in nicer ways, for a long time. America does need to wake up and realize that the world hates us. Most of their reasons for hating us are unjustified or unfair, but some of them aren’t. And we need to have enough of a conscience as a nation to recognize the difference. Also, we need to kick that Dumbass Bush out of office.

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Wil Wheaton

An article on celebrity weblogs, including one of my favorites, Wil Wheaton’s. Wil, at least, is a regular guy, unlike most of these other celebrities, who are pretty damned clueless and seem to use their weblogs as promotions of whatever crap they’re working on. If I’m not interesting in watching Entertainment Tonight’s blanket coverage of your star-studded premiere for your piece of crap movie, why on earth would I want to read about it on your website?

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cockeyed.com

I’ve posted this link before, but I’m doing it again, because Rob has posted more stuff: Cockeyed.com. Rob likes to test things and do amateur scientific experiments, like How much is in a can of EZ Cheese? His latest is How Much is in a Million Dollars. I like that one. He also plays pranks on people. My favorite prank is the giant banana sign he hung outside a mall. There seemed to be a piece of art missing from the mall, so he made his own replacement, and put it up.
But a close second is the prank he played on Google. They were sending a guy (chad) riding his bike across country, and you were supposed to send in a photo of Chad if you happened to see him in your area. Well Rob decided to take a bunch of fake photos of himself dressed up as Chad the Biker, and have all his friends all over the country send them in. Pretty fun. Also, he makes cool craft type art experiments, Like this paparazzi costume. In all, I think Rob is really cool. He seems to like life, and have funny friends. That’s the kind of guy we all want to know.

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weekend update 2002-08-19

It wasn’t the best weekend I’ve ever had. My sister’s going back to England to live, and I had to say goodbye to her Saturday. I’m happy for her that’s she’s going back, because she really likes it there, but I’ll miss her. On Sunday, I went to Kokomo and Peru Indiana to photograph big things, which was cool, but on the way back, my brakes started grinding. So I had to take the car in and spend the afternoon getting new brakes put on, which really sucks, because I was just starting to really get ahead financially after buying the house. Very annoying. But at least I have new brakes. And photos of big things.

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future of the interenet and technology

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Fantastic Salon article on the future of the internet and technology. Basically the same thing that was said in a really great book published back in 1999, Digital Darwinism. The book pointed out, during the height of the internet boom, the simply throwing money at any internet business was doomed to fail; that only businesses with solid business plans and real e-commerce goals would survive. People will buy things off the internet… but only certain things. And the internet is still more about ideas and communication than it is about business.

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