Who Were the Sea Peoples?

Some lady named Angela Keaton over at the Antiwar.com blog claims that the media in Missouri have identified affiliation with Antiwar.com as an indication of terrorist proclivities: "Alas, you can’t fool KMOV St. Louis, Channel 4. They know an enemy of the state when they see one; one of the bumper stickers they prominently featured marking an American citizen as some sort of potential terrorist was from... Antiwar.com. Yes, no one is as dangerous to the state as an advocate for peace." Wow, so station KMOV came out and said that an Antiwar.com bumper sticker marks you as a terrorist? Pretty scary, huh? Except the scariness is all in Angela's mind. The station did not claim that the Antiwar.com bumper sticker indicated a terrorist threat! They were interviewing a libertarian who said she thought the police might target her because of her bumper sticker. So this lady's paranoid fantasies are now being used as evidence that Antiwar.com is considered a terrorist thr...

Fourteen billion hits! I'm going to start reading and find out what the buzz is all about .

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Go here and click on track 14. It's the Grateful Dead performing Marvin Gaye's 'What's Going On', with Clarence Clemons on sax, and vocals by... well, listen (no fair peeking in the comments!) and try to guess who is doing the vocals!

I love the NCAA tournament, but I find this phrase everyone uses lately at seeding time annoying -- here's an example : "UConn had the better body of work on the season." Isn't that exactly equivalent to saying "UConn had the better season," except, of course, for being longer and more awkward? "Body of work" is an annoying addition some guy on the selection committee started using that now gets spliced into every attempt to say "better season." Ugh!

You are causing your kid's peanut allergy .

I was think about the classical writer who demonstrated that dogs reason (because of this post ), and so I Googled for "dogs reason syllogism fork road" and the second hit was this . This illustrated something I've long held to be true -- computers are not some sort of proto-minds of their own, they are mind extensions . As my (wetware) memory gradually fails, I place my thoughts in silicon storage and then look them up again later. But nowhere on the Internet do I find any thoughts not put there by a human! (This, by the way, is nothing new in human history -- we have been extending or body with tools for a long, long time. The blind man's cane is a classic case -- his hand is only touching the top of the cane, but that's certainly not what he's carrying it around to learn about! Polanyi noted this long before me.)