Monthly Archives: June 2008

Knowledge of God Reading Group (Week 1)

Andrew Moon just kicked of our Knowledge of God Reading Group over at Prosblogion with a discussion of the first thirty pages from chapter 1.

Open Access Philosophy

Here’s a nice post on open access philosophy. It includes an open access pledge.

Bad Press for Windows in the New York Times

In this New York Times article, a business professor discusses one of the major issues he thinks Windows faces.
My Summary: Windows is a piece-meal, monothilic OS based on 60s and 70s code dogma. It’s a Frankenstein OS. It’s basically 30 years of patching and unfinished quilt-work.
His recommendation as a business professor to a business - [...]

User-Generated Content = Sweatshop Labor?

This article claims that running user generated content sites like YouTube and Wikipedia is like running a virtual sweatshop. Really? I don’t even know where to begin.
What concerns me is that I could easily see this kind of argument get co-opted by proprietary software companies to try and say that there is something morally wrong [...]

More Thoughts On the Ubuntu Switch

I’m still loving my switch to Ubuntu. I’m even making philosophy Ubuntu wallpapers.
Now it looks like Richard Chapelle recently made the switch to Ubuntu. He’s got a list of possible downsides and concludes, the benefits seem to outweigh the costs. I agree.
There is one downside that came up in the comments that I do agree [...]

Socrates Ubuntu Wallpaper

It seems unfitting not to show a little love to Socrates with an Ubuntu Wallpaper. I had a more grand vision with this one. Right now it’s a little plain. I may come back to this one and fix it up, but some may like it just like this - so consider this version one.
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Van Inwagen Ubuntu Wallpaper

I finished this wallpaper the day before Simon was born. I tried to get Peter Van Inwagen’s picture to be a bit pointy/dotty to represent the simples.
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Sometimes you don’t always want to have a face on your desktop. I’ve got some ideas for some philosophy wallpapers without faces. Next time I play [...]

Calm Simon vs. Crying Simon

Calm Simon

Cooing/Crying Simon

It’s a Boy!

Simon Richard Cullison was born on June 23, 2008 at 1:42 AM. We just got home from the hospital. I’m going to post a link to pictures and some video soon.
Friends and family have been following updates through my twitter account - www.twitter.com/andycullison. I’ll continue to post little updates about Simon there. Seeing your own [...]

David Lewis Wallpaper

I liked the Chisholm-One and Chisholm-Two wallpapers, but I’m still on my Ubuntu Philosopher Wallpaper kick. Here’s a David Lewis Ubuntu Wallpaper.

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Goldman Wallpaper (via Matthew Mullins)
Matthew Mullins has a Goldman Wallpaper here.
He also suggests that dearth of philosophy wallpapers need not be filled by restricting ourselves to  heroes. Wallpapers with philosophers who are, [...]