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The author's construction of his reality of self!
A place to exercise ideas before writing about them with greater discipline.
Stephen Smoliar
The author's construction of his reality of self!
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- Stephen Smoliar
- Still trying to "liberate the mind from fear, superstition and pettiness."
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- Apple Shoots Itself in the Foot (if not higher)
- The Wikipedia Fight Club Goes to Congress
- Is Anyone Talking to Hamas?
- Catching up with Albéniz
- Fear and Loathing in Software Development
- Mozart and his Texts
- On the Density of Human Waste
- Music Description Recapitulates Philosophy?
- Smart Technology and Dumb Mistakes
- Does Money Buy Happiness?
- Sometimes Nature Solves the Problem
- Orwell Would be Amused
- The Deeper Values Below the Surface
- Comcast Will Be Comcast
- A Surprising Endorsement
- Our Psychopathic Future
- The Battle for the Waistline
- Productivity for What?
- Ernestine Still Calls the Shots at AT&T
- A Possible Insight from Genetics
- Wait for Catastrophe?
- Putting the Blind Men in their Place
- Sound, Fury, and Indigestion
- "It Is Happening Again"
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