Archive for May, 2008
When is an e-card not an e-card?
When it’s a trojan or virus, of course. Some of you may have received the following email from me:
Hello,
I’m sending a quick email to a few friends/family just to alert about something I just noticed in my Gmail inbox.
I received an email that alleged itself to be from “GreetingCards.com” which is a respected Hallmark Cards [...]
Looting antiquities and hurt feelings and an appeal to Memorial Day
As many of you are aware, A Hot Cup of Joe is a blog that originated at Blogspot. In fact, the original blog is still there. I even continue to get hits and comments even though my last post was announcing the move to Wordpress.
Some of the comments are interesting and I think each and [...]
Religion and the Imagination – Cue a John Lennon Song
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According to an anthropologist at the London School of Economics, the very process that John Lennon suggested we use to put religion and other human institutions out our minds might very well be the reason we have religion to begin with.
Imagination, says Maurice Bloch [New Scientist], is what sets humans apart from other animal species. [...]
