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Audubon Zoo Reopens November 26, 2005

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Yay!

Just ported the Foo to Moveable Type November 23, 2005

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I just completed installing Moveable Type to my kimbo.org server, and migrating my blog from blogger.com. Still have some work to do to get Pomer working, and tweaking the UI/styles, but anyway.

Assorted RSS Feeds Aggregated November 18, 2005

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I’d been looking for a way to host my own aggregated RSS feeds, and finally managed to put this together:

Assorted RSS Feeds Aggregated

using Gregarius.

Italian TV links

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24ORE TV (Web Site) (Stream)
Coming Soon TV (Web Site) (Stream)
Rai News 24h (Web Site) (Stream)
Rai Sport 24h (Web Site) (Stream)
Telecolor (Web Site) (Stream)

Philosophy — a Booker list by phineas October 7, 2005

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Philosophy — a Booker list by phineas

Finally, I managed to make a book lister utility I’m calling Booker for now. Create, manage and share lists of books.

More info here.

Bibliography tools & reading lists September 20, 2005

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I’ve been wanting a tool for managing lists of books and resources, like bibliographies. What I really want is to be able to just have on-line access to bibliographies found in books that I have read, or course reading lists (like MIT OCW), or any arbitrary list, like Books-I-Own, Books-I-Want-To-Buy, Books-I-Want-To-Read, Books-On-Some-Topic, Books-I-Lost-In-The-Hurricane, etc. That would then be an on-line resource for my self, something I could share. I’ve seen some things like it, and I will be keeping track of those tools, like:

RedLightGreen (search for books, manage an MLA-style list)
Amazon Wishlist/Listmania/Webservices
Wikipedia Book source

But nothing is quite right. I know there are personal inventory applications out there, I might look at those.

But I think what I’d like is a tool that allows you to view a book on-line, click a tool in your browser toolbar, and capture that book’s data. Perhaps it captures the ISBN, looks up the detail from a webservice by ISBN, and saves the info into your list. Amazon’s wishlist and listmania are almost perfect, but you’re only searching that inventory, and it’s all organized for you to buy the book, so it’s meaningless if the list you want to create is Books-I-Own.

I might make my own application that does this, but Amazon and RedLightGreen come so close, I’d really like to find an existing tool if there is one.

Reading Notes September 19, 2005

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I’ve decided to compose for myself a syllabus in the History of Western Philosophy. It’s a little chaotic, but here’s the reading list. The text is Bertrand Russell’s The History of Western Philosophy.

I plan to pause after I wrap up Book One, and read The Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan . I’ll try to dip onto primary source by Thucydides if I can.

Other primary sources, while my head is in Classical times:
Plato — The Republic, The Symposium, Parmenides, Apology, Crito and Phaedo.

For a taste of Stoicism:
Epictetus — The Golden Sayings of Epictetus (Harvard Classics)
Marcus Aurelius — The Meditations (Harvard Classics).

After that I’ll return to Russell’s History, and try to pause and read relevant primary sources as I go along.