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Aug 29th, 2006 by bookie

Links and News [2006.08.29]

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Aug 29th, 2006 by ravi

Vladimir Tretchikoff

BBC has a report on Vladimir Tretchikoff, "king of kitch", who has passed away. A website about him claims that prints of his The Chinese Girl (right) are the largest selling of all time.

The website includes a gallery of pictures many of which are quite interesting. Also see: Wikipedia page about him; Art.com poster gallery.

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Aug 28th, 2006 by bookie

Links and News [2006.08.28]

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Aug 26th, 2006 by bookie

Links and News [2006.08.26]

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Aug 25th, 2006 by ravi

Defining “non”-analytical philosophy

Leiter reports has a guest blog entry by Jason Stanley, that provides a fair[er] definition of that type of philosophy that is not considered "analytical":

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Aug 25th, 2006 by bookie

Links and News [2006.08.25]

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Aug 24th, 2006 by bookie

Links and News [2006.08.24]

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Aug 23rd, 2006 by ravi

Ducking the ethical issues

The city of Chicago, in a moment of surprising enlightenment, passed a law banning the sale of foie gras. The response? Civil disobedience from restaurateurs and a indignation from the already overfed population. Curtailment of civil rights? No problem. Illegal and immoral war? Who cares. Lesser cruelty towards animals? NO WAY, dude!

What is pathetic about this is the lack of a meaningful response in terms of the ethical issues raised. Instead naive individual choice arguments are offered to justify personal opinion. Some counts offer the staggering number of six billion animals killed each year for human consumption (the number perhaps is approximate and is intentionally coincidental with the current human population). At least the Germans just stood by while horror was committed around them.

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Aug 23rd, 2006 by bookie

Links and News [2006.08.23]

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Aug 23rd, 2006 by ravi

Israeli buffoonery continues

How do you get from the image of the most advanced and successful fighting force in the world to a pathetic joke, in the period of one month?

It would all be hilarious if the IDF silliness did not involve the death of others (15 people in this case).