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“The chaplain had reservations about inmates turning into Buddhists and losing his congregation,” Dr. Cavanaugh said. “He called the commissioner; the commissioner called the warden and told the warden to shut down the program.” FFS.
links for 2007-09-12
links for 2007-09-05
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fold your own
links for 2007-09-02
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“Meditation and spiritual practice can easily be used to suppress and avoid feeling or to escape from difficult areas of our lives. Our sorrows are hard to touch. Many people resist the personal and psychological roots of their suffering; there is so much
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Fascinating history of the genesis of vipassana in the US and its relationship to Asian Theravada Buddhism.
links for 2007-08-16
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The West is running a protectionist racket against the developing world – “one can only imagine the reaction if a middle-class Kenyan tried to offset the carbon emissions from his swimming pool by buying Al Gore a dung-fired stove.”
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Landlines of course. The mobile sector is far more healthy.
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“…suggests that healthy people are able to effectively regulate their negative emotions through conscious effort, but that the necessary neural circuits are dysfunctional in many patients with depression”… so stop saying ‘just snap out of it’ cos we c
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It’s contagious. Oh shit.
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Watch the birdies
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Supercoool
Cool and shiny
So you’re out and about, as you are, and there’s a bangin’ choon winding down the aural canal from some boomin’ sound system. “That’s a bangin’ choon” you think to yourself. But you’re waaaaaay too cool to, like, ask what it is. Or you’re hearing it in a lift and there’s nobody available to question. Whatever. Either way help is at hand:

Yes, you really can dial a number on your mobile to access large numbers of autistic obsessive-compulsive music-loving elves a machine to “listen” to the said choon, identify it and text back the relevant details. But at a price, as you can see. However the service is impressive given the non-mainstream nature of the track it was tested on. (The video is extraordinary. Mr Vek is a man unconcerned with image, I would guess.)
So that’s the cool and the shiny. Also not hot, but in a bad way, is the experience of hanging round on dating sites.
Im seeking a lady who is in need of mutual pleasures, Im hoping for regular meetings, friendship is also important to me, Im 56yrs Slim with a well toned body, a nice tight bum, and reasonably well endowed
Im have average looks, Im clean
says one hopeful.
At many cases I am romantic, and like good conversations with anyone normal person, but in bed I like to face big boobs
says another.
It’s been a long time (a very long time) since I was last on the market and “dating” isn’t something I’m familiar with. Looks like that’s not going to change any time soon. I’ll just have to keep ogling trees instead.
links for 2007-08-13
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Also comes under the “maybe one day” category
links for 2007-08-12
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Interesting post and discussion in comments about self-transcendence. Via RMack.
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Working against FGM in Senegal and just won a HUGE PRIZE!! Shiny shiny shiny.
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A useful corrective for cyberutopians. The ensuring the tools for conversation exist doesn’t guarantee good dialogue.
links for 2007-08-11
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Available on the National Health!
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By stoning.
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“…respond to ambient moonlight, dimming and brightening each month as the moon cycles through its phases.”
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Interesting analysis of NICE and the NHS decision to withdraw drug from early Alzheimer’s sufferers.
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Shiny! I keep banging on about the revolution of mobile telephony on information consumption and dissemination in the developing world. Here it is happening.
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What it says on the tin.
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Maybe one day…
links for 2007-08-10
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Scientists with related tattoos. Really makes me want my mobius ouroboros. Maybe when I get back from holiday.
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Complete with pictures
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yup.
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Bloody exercise. I know, I KNOW. It’s DOING it that’s the problem.
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Was discussing just this – inappropriate health interventions in the elderly – with friend recently. Frankly, we all die sooner or later. Sometimes sooner and with dignity is better than later.
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Better searching

