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Skeptics in the Pub - December 2008

I finally made it to a Boston Skeptics in the Pub 'meeting', well outing actually on Saturday 12/13. We started the day gathering at the Museum of Science at 10a (yes I did leave at 7), then partaking of

Mythic Creatures Goose Bumps Theatre of Electricity

I'm tired of GOING Green when they don't say where the GREEN is GOING?

Cox wants me to "Go Green" because - switching to PAPERLESS BILLING is eco-friendly?

Kurt Vonnegut on our Daring Youth

"What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured."

Lack of Track

Today's News Gang Live returned to the reason for lack of track. As often ensues, circular reasoning abounded. Initially the difficulty and sequential failures by all of the main players to ramp-up realtime track was thrown out for discussion - the technology card. Then the lack of a monetization model for track was blamed. The idea for 'charging' for track was suggested and shot down because micro-payments don't work. The current model of living off venture funding was proposed as 'better' than charging for the service.

Philip K. Dick on Reality

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Douglas Adams from The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
(for other Adams' quotes)

Oscar Wilde, from Rob La Gesse via Twitter

"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends."

Michael Markman, NewsGangLive, 2008-07-09

A patriot is not someone who supports the president, a patriot is someone who supports the Constitution.

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