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Bad news for a friend yesterday... she got fired. Over e-mail. E-MAIL. And for calling in sick. The whole thing is just wrong.

But this feeds into my "Psych 101" philosophy of how we treat other human beings. Typical experimental psychology... If you can see another person - physically SEE them - you are less likely to give them an electric shock for doing something wrong. Once a curtain drops - and you can't see the person - you start zapping without a care in the world.

And my friend just got zapped over e-mail.
--Dylan
2003.11.20
Quote of the Moment
I look at life as being cruise director on the Titanic. I may not get there, but I'm going first class.
Art Buchwald
Q+A of the Moment
What kinds of things keep you visually interested in a strip?
Emotion. Raw visible emotion. It's virtually absent from most comics today. It flared warmly with "Calvin and Hobbes" and has mostly disappeared again. That and nudity.
Link of the Moment
David Cortesi has an interesting book, Secular Wholeness, "A skeptic's paths to a richer life". The content of the whole book is online, though I think I might order the deadtree edition, for the usual reasons.