Vexen Crabtree's Live Journal

http://vexen.livejournal.com

• Updates

  http://vexen.livejournal.com/354295.html
  18 days

  1. I now live in Salisbury, UK. 2. I've rewritten " The Commercialist Mass Media: The Bane of Human Cultural Evolution " by Vexen Crabtree (2009), and it now includes a list of the most popular newspapers along with notes on their quality and worth. I've written a large new section on democracy & the mass media

• The things that matter are the things that last

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  41 days

  Steering something in the right direction early on will prevent things going as wrong in the future. Research into solving long-term problems will turn out to (later) solve more-short term problems than merely thinking about short-term problems now. Etc. If it won't matter in 100 years when everyone now is dead, then,

• "Little Suicide" by The Love Crave

  http://vexen.livejournal.com/353355.html
  54 days

  I've added a list of serious genetic diseases to my page on evolution, including Cystic fibrosis , Down's syndrome , Hemophilia , Huntingdon's disease , Muscular dystrophy , Sickle-cell anemia , Tay-Sachs disease and Thalassemia , to complement the list of inheritable personality disorders . I also added a bit about dyslexia,

• Mountain trekking

  http://vexen.livejournal.com/353232.html
  56 days

  Monday means another week trekking through the black mountains in Wales at breakneck pace, with heavy backpacks. This is the second week of training, and then the week after it's the same story, but up near Scotland somewhere. Gorgeous scenary, great mountains... shame about the pain! I don't know if I will make it..

• N 歺ȉ

  http://vexen.livejournal.com/352889.html
  62 days

  Just skimmed a quote in an article on The Guardian website: http://www.guardian.co.uk/tech… "Soaring online demand stretching companies' ability to deliver content as net uses more power and raises costs. 'In an energy-constrained world, we cannot continue to grow the footprint of the internet … we

• "Und Wenn" by And One

  http://vexen.livejournal.com/352261.html
  105 days

  New page! " General Neophobia in Everyday Life: Humankind's Fear of Progress and Change " by Vexen Crabtree (2009). Page intro and contents: Neophobia in its psychological pretext is the pressing fear of things that are new, including changes in routine and food. A looser look at general neophobia, in social psychology terms,

• Windows Vista Search

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  115 days

  Does anyone know of any good software I can download to do filesearches in Windows Vista? I need to search the contents of text (.html) files for specific strings, and Vista just can't do it. I've searched on the Internet and found lots and lots of problems, and very few answers. I've found (through rather a lot of effort)