ursulav posted about this cute photocomic, My Milk Toof . I am reminded of inhumandecency and his friendly slimes and stories.

I've been reading The Happiness Hypothesis , by Jonathan Haidt. A lot of it consolidates stuff I already knew, thanks to inhumandecency . But a few tidbits are new. Of course, I'm familiar with the usual suspects list of things that don't increase happiness in the long run - wealth, beauty, fame, youth, etc. - and the usual suspect list of things that do - friendships, leisure, meditation...

Please excuse all the links I've been posting lately, but this is another important issue which I believe needed some clarification. Inhumandecency - Obama's tax plan

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Sunday morning. I was too lazy to turn off the alarm, so I found myself again listening to Speaking of Faith . This week it was an interview with Eckhart Tolle . His spiritual philosophy basically seemed to boil down to this: we spend too much time thinking, either about the future or the past, and not enough time living now. People spend too much time thinking? OK, so this Tolle guy needs to take...

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It's not about advertising. It's about a lot of very poor choices on the part of LJ's new management , most of which they have not acknowledged and one of which - the removal of interests like "bisexuality" and "depression" from the list of top interests - they denied the existence of, even in the face of evidence from the Internet Archive and code from their own changelog, before finally saying it...

Michael has a quick summary of events to date . There's a strike starting at 7pm today (and ending I assume at 7pm tomorrow but I'm checking on that). I don't know that knowledge of livejournal's actions is sufficiently widespread among the bulk of users for a strike to make a big difference, or that SUP will interpret it as a consequence of their own actions rather than a malevolent attempt to...

So "to be, or not to be" is not the universal question. It is the question for the West. For all existentialist thinking, "to be, or not to be" really is the question. And when it is the question, man must necessarily be anxious. The moment we know that we exist, we face the possibility that we might cease to be. And so we tremble. But when "to be, or not to be" is not the question, we as individuals...