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Monday, May 08, 2006

Posted by Captain Future at 12:29 AM

Captain Future's Dreaming Up Daily

Quoth: The Menacing Metaphor - O’Gieblyn’s key warning is that metaphors are “two-way streets.”... When we describe our minds using terms borrowed from computers, we begin to see our ...
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BLUE VOICE

Origins: Easter and April Fool's Day - Easter is what’s known in Catholicism as a moveable feast—that is, it doesn’t occur on the same date every year. This religious holiday had been observ...
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BOOKS IN HEAT

N. Scott Momaday 1934-2024 - N. Scott Momaday, poet, novelist, playwright, artist, essayist, scholar and teacher, died in January. He is best known for his first novel, *House Mad...
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60's Now

Keep This Blog - This is one of my Lost Blogs, even as blogworld becomes the land of the lost. But there's a lot of good stuff here, and I want to keep it alive. So I'm p...
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Soul of Star Trek

Strange Old Worlds - On September 8, 1966 the first season of the Star Trek series began. It explored strange new worlds in the galaxy of imagination as well as in televis...
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Kowincidence

Legacy of the Carnegie Libraries - The centennial celebration in 2004 of the Carnegie Library in Eureka, CA, transformed into the Morris Graves Museum of Art a few years earlier, was the occ...
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