tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-178581192011-04-21T21:14:49.689+02:00DSO<img src="http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d120/DSO_TS/blogpics/walking2.gif"> <img src="http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d120/DSO_TS/blogpics/walking2.gif"> <img src="http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d120/DSO_TS/blogpics/walking2.gif">DSOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13689590245311848594noreply@blogger.comBlogger91100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17858119.post-14400770177512682512006-11-22T23:55:00.000+01:002006-11-23T02:37:06.072+01:00Laurie R. King's Mary Russell seriesThese are some of the best books to happen to today's crime fiction world. Laurie R. King gets away with something that many others have tried and failed to do. She writes sequels, so to speak, to the classic Sherlock Holmes stories, and she does it in a way that both feels true to the original character, and enriches him.
Fact is, I have never really appreciated the old Sherlock Holmes stories DSOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13689590245311848594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17858119.post-47965359338489392552006-11-22T23:37:00.000+01:002006-11-23T01:49:44.667+01:00Robin Hobb / Megan LindholmRobin Hobb has an unconventional homepage, where clicking (usually on cats) takes you to different, sometimes surprising places.
Robin Hobb has written a well known triple of trilogies. If you have only heard about them, but not read them, you probably think that this is the ordinary conventional fantasy, with quests, dragons, magic etc. And, fact is, I suspect you can even read the books likeDSOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13689590245311848594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17858119.post-7279050428616531772006-11-20T20:01:00.000+01:002006-11-22T15:21:32.067+01:00Bouncing Cat Smilies - the complete collection
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Not all smilies are yellow. There are green smilies, there are blue smilies, there are red smilies. And then there are cat smilies.
I first encountered the cat smilies at a board where PurpleMoggy was admin. (I later became moderator at that board.) I have never remembered to ask where heDSOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13689590245311848594noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17858119.post-14084325400370449082006-11-19T15:40:00.001+01:002006-11-22T15:22:44.758+01:00Smilies
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In the beginning there was the Smiley . According to a Wikipedia article, the smiley may have been born as early as 1963 (and somebody typed :) to symbolize a smile ten years earlier). It did not conquer the world, though, until the 1970s, when it found itsDSOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13689590245311848594noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17858119.post-60539282619955335252006-11-11T16:06:00.000+01:002006-11-22T17:33:36.575+01:00The Morality of Power(Originally posted by me at the old version of ClawsOrPaws.)
Theories of moral responsibility often include some version of the "ought implies can" claim. It means that if you say that somebody ought to have done something, or ought not to have done something, it was in their power to do what they should have done. This usually applies both to circumstances and capacities. You would, for exampleDSOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13689590245311848594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17858119.post-54222637470821994472006-11-11T15:59:00.000+01:002006-11-22T17:33:22.191+01:00Long Texts and Complex Arguments(Originally posted by me at the old version of ClawsOrPaws.)
I am often fascinated by the way online people expect contributions to discussions to be kept short, or else they can't be bothered to read them. Often these "can't be bored" people are the same ones that will spend hours learning the intricacies of a new piece of code or software, or the controls of a complex game. They realise that DSOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13689590245311848594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17858119.post-11623491038308421712006-11-11T15:54:00.000+01:002006-11-22T17:32:49.042+01:00Freedom and Respect(Originally posted by me at the old version of ClawsOrPaws.)
This is a though-provoking article about an important issue. The combination of freedom of speech and respect for others is a tough one.
It is easy to say that freedom of speech should rule absolute, and that we should be humble enough to realise that our ways may not be the only, or the "right" ways. It's the right and "respectful" DSOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13689590245311848594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17858119.post-53159623623740095682006-11-11T15:20:00.003+01:002008-05-09T22:07:18.546+02:00Friendship - probably Part I(Originally posted by me at the old version of ClawsOrPaws.)
When you become friends with somebody, it's because you like who that person is. Sure, with time you will discover more about him/her, and perhaps about yourself, and maybe you won't like all the things you discover. Still, as somebody said, you accept your friend's warts, too. You can have fights with friends, and make up, and such DSOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13689590245311848594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17858119.post-1129320628182023152005-10-14T22:09:00.000+02:002006-11-23T03:22:27.126+01:00Yellow Kat Smilies
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[November 2006] OK, so I cheat. I wanted to complete the cat smilie collection with the yellow kats, but not have them show up as a new post. So I edited an old one that was a candidate for the trash bin anyway...
angelic
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