{"id":1124,"date":"2007-08-28T07:15:42","date_gmt":"2007-08-28T11:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1124"},"modified":"2007-08-28T07:15:42","modified_gmt":"2007-08-28T11:15:42","slug":"bundle-of-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1124","title":{"rendered":"Bundle of stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.connotea.org\/faq#why\">Connotea<\/a> &#8212; a sort of deli.cio.us for scientists, which picks up bibliographic information from sites like pubmed when it stores bookmarks therefrom.<\/li>\n<li>If you are doing something else while running a registry optimiser, you, too, can set all your personal folders (desktop, start menu, etc) to be subfolders of <span class=\"loony\">C:\/program files\/tools\/scintilla text editor\/wscite.<\/span> And good luck when you do. In particular, you are going to wish you had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de\/erunt\/\">made a backup<\/a> of your registry beforehand. Then you&#8217;re going to wish you could remember where you had put it.<\/li>\n<li>David Hume&#8217;s collected works, are now my desert island luxury.<br \/>\n<span class=\"sane\">By what arguments or analogies can we prove any state of existence, which no one ever saw, and which no way resembles any that ever was seen? Who will repose such trust in any pretended philosophy as to admit upon its testimony the reality of so marvellous a scene? Some new species of logic is requisite for that purpose, and some new faculties of the mind, that may enable us to comprehend that logic.<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"sane\"><span class=\"caps\">NOTHING <\/span>could set in a fuller light the infinite obligations which mankind have to divine revelation, since we find that no other medium could ascertain this great and important truth.<\/span><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not clear to me, though, that this argument wouldn&#8217;t apply with equal force to quantum physics, which, also, can only be grasped by <span class=\"sane\">some new species of logic and some new faculties of mind<\/span> &#8212; certainly new relative to Hume&#8217;s day. But the last sentence makes me laugh out loud. I wonder if that kind of irony is only really appreciated by people who have spet time in a social system run by fear, like a boys&#8217; prep school?<\/li>\n<li>I need to write an essay called &#8220;Houyhnhnm and Unicorns&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>I need also to think more about Mother Teresa and the fact that for the last fifty years of her life she was running entirely on willpower while being revered as an icon of love.<\/li>\n<li>If ever you wanted proof that the motor of <del>love<\/del> romance is not sex but self-deception, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/politics\/law\/magazine\/15-09\/ff_internetlies?currentPage=all\">this perfect story<\/a> of an IM entanglement, from <em>Wired,<\/em> will supply it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Connotea &#8212; a sort of deli.cio.us for scientists, which picks up bibliographic information from sites like pubmed when it stores bookmarks therefrom. If you are doing something else while running a registry optimiser, you, too, can set all your personal &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1124\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1124\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}