Leopard Released

One more post on Apple’s new OS.  It is out in Australia…releases moving Westward with the Sunset…it gets here in about 11 hours.
I won’t be running out to upgrade today…probably won’t upgrade for a while.  If my Windows partition quits working at the end of the month, that may force me to upgrade.
But the point [...]

A Holiday Story

Can a Leopard Change its Spots?

In less than a week Apple will release the next version of its operating system.  The faithful are predicting huge success….300+ new features!!  Oh joy.
The faithful are bashing Vista as a has-been wannabe.  Leopard, they say, is everything that Vista pretends to be.  Only idiots are using Vista…all of the intelligentsia are on Macs.  yes…Yes….YESSSSS!!!!!
You [...]

Word of the day

Colloquium: an academic conference or seminar in which a particular topic is discussed, often with guest speakers.
Used in a sentence: The California Colloquium on Water has some excellent video presentations on water use in California. A yearly UC Berkeley event, the colloquium has tons of experts on video explaining the future [...]

Getting Indexed

The following links are an effort to get the major search engines to index my site The Agora:
 The Stoic Hearth of the Rational Good
 The Epicurean Garden of Contentment
 The Skeptical Guide to Rational Enquiry
 The Early Christian Archive
The Confucian Guide to Skeptical Enlightenment
 The Natural Way of Taoism
 The Universalism of Mo Tzu
 Tolstoy of Christianity and Peace
Kropotkin on Authority [...]

The End of Linux (again [this time for real!!])

Redhat and Novell have been sued for patent infringement by a company called IP Innovation LLC, a subsidiary of Acacia Technologies. Since I am not a patent attorney, here is the patent (5,072,412) from the USPTO. From a lay person’s cursory reading it seems that the patent covers tabs–I could be wrong. [...]

Mandriva 2008 Released

Mandriva Linux 2008 released, a great KDE distro gets better.  Just installed it on my laptop, all hardware supported, pretty, works as expected, easy install.  My soundcard is supported, that is a first on Linux.
It is nice to see a polished KDE in this time of GNOME.  Until recently, I only used KDE–but now I [...]

Comment on Multiconstruct

Mike over at Multiconstruct has an interesting post about a friend Joe communicating with an Orangutan.
It ties into the book I am reading by Dennett, as Mike calls me: “an incorrigible skeptic, atheist, and materialist”.
I prefer the term bright .
I am writing this post because Mike’s blog won’t let me register to comment, so [...]

Amazon mp3 store is ripping people off

A few days ago I checked out Amazon’s new drm-free mp3 download store. As an emusic subscriber, I was quite curious about what they had to offer. I bought an album by Asylum Street Spankers and another by The Silos. All well and good so far.
Today I went and bought The Best [...]

Current Reading: Breaking the Spell

by Daniel Dennett
Breaking the Spell is a natural history of religion by an avowed atheist. I am not too far into the book yet, but it is an interesting read. More accessible than many of Dennett’s writings, the book is highly recommended.
I especially like the concept of calling atheists, non-deists, agnostics, and other [...]