<h1>William James - The PhD Octopus</h1>
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-<!-- Page published by Emacs Muse begins here --><p>The full text of William James's article <em><a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/20768">The Ph.D Octopus</a></em> which is
-conveniently enough in the public domain, and worth republishing.</p>
+<!-- Page published by Emacs Muse begins here --><p>Thanks to the public domain I have republished the full text of
+William James's article <em><a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/20768">The Ph.D Octopus</a></em>. It is a rather nice essay on
+the over-reliance on academic accredation as a measure of intellectual
+worth which I find is a particularly relevant issue today.</p>
+
+<p>What makes this most interesting is that it was published in 1903 by a
+man who was seeing our present-day culture form before his eyes. Ah!
+What an exciting—or perhaps, terrifying—time the beginning of the
+20th century must have been! All of the technological <em>progress</em> in our
+time has been meaningless in contrast to our utter cultural
+stagnation. Perhaps exciting times are here for us now; perhaps the
+time has come to reverse—or transcend—the cultural <em>progress</em> of the
+early 20th century.</p>
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to guard us from a future so unmanly and so unbeautiful!</p>
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-<p class="cke-footer">And did those feet in ancient time
-Walk upon England's mountains green?
-And was the holy Lamb of God
-On England's pleasant pastures seen?
+<p class="cke-footer">clinton: last time I was a bit weak (*sniff* level four and only 18 hp)
+clinton: I had a -1 intelligence modifier for the first three weeks
+emacsen: what about your character?
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-<!-- Page published by Emacs Muse begins here --><p>Greetings, my name is Clinton and you have stumbled upon my personal
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-<p class="first">I keep a <a href="http://journal.unknownlamer.org/">journal</a> which is where I tend to send ideas out into the
-Ether before reformulating them into coherent essays for the site
-sitting before you, occasionally interspersed with commentary on my
-mundane daily existence.</p>
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-<p><a href="http://unknownlamer.org/index.1999_2006.html">The Old Site</a> is still available. Links to pages there will remain
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-<p class="first">I am a mild mannered hacker and metalhead.</p>
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-<p>I welcome criticism and suggestions to improve anything I have
-written here.</p>
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-Email</h3>
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-<p><code>clinton at unknownlamer dot gro</code> (a simple puzzle)</p>
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-Jabber</h3>
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-<p><code>clinton at hcoop dot net</code> (this also works as an email address and must
-be protected as a result)</p>
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-IRC</h3>
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-<p class="first">I hang out on Freenode and oftc as <code>unknown_lamer</code> in various
-channels. <code>/whois</code> will guide you to me.</p>
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-<h3><a name="sec7" id="sec7"></a>
-Résumé</h3>
-
-<p class="first">I am a programmer by trade, and as such have a (potentially) fancy
-<a href="files/resume.pdf">Résumé</a>. I am quite familiar with <a href="http://common-lisp.net/project/ucw/">UnCommon Web</a> and Common Lisp in
-general. This, naturally, makes me unemployable.</p>
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-Site Software</h3>
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-<p class="first">I use <a href="http://www.mwolson.org/projects/MuseMode.html">muse-mode</a> to author the site because <a href="http://emacswiki.org">Emacs</a> is all powerful, and
-the closest approximation to a good user interface available on any
-modern computer system. Muse allows me to simply write with very low
-overhead (I spend most of my time in Emacs, and having hyperlinks and
-a reasonable preview in the file buffer is quite useful). The file
-format is quite hairy, but luckily the code is Free Software and, if
-needed, I could easily write a publishing backend that transcoded my
-site to an easier to parse format. There are advantages to being a
-programmer.</p>
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-<p>I use darcs to push updates to the site and manage my muse files. As
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