Perspective Changing Books

I have come up with a list of books that have changed my whole perspective on shit. It is a pretty short list, and each one is still affecting me today, when I see new ideas or data. Since each one of these books has had some lasting effect on me, I wish more people had read each one. I will present them in the order I read them. The first I remember was "The Selfish Gene," by Richard Dawkins:

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Best Usage of Music in Film

I have watched a lot of movies, probably too many. Music is completely ubiquitous and necessary in movies. Many movies have forgettable music that you don't even notice, and some movies have music that is conspicuously bad. Then some movies use music in a memorable way that increases how much we like the whole film. I've thought back on the movies I have seen, and tried to remember scenes like these.

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When Conservatism is Right

Ron Paul is a tool. This is one politician that I really don't agree with on anything. To start things off, he is socially conservative. I'm pretty socially liberal. I want women to control whether or not they have to go through bringing a child into this world, and I would love it if more people would help gays adopt children. etc. etc. This isn't really the point of what I am writing, however. What really bugs me about Ron Paul is that it seems to me that he believes that this country was perfect about 100 years ago, and all we need to do is roll back everything and we will be good to go.


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Skepticism is a Virtue

I will polish this soon

This article is a reply to this essay, posted to our Free Thought Society website.


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A New Calendar

We waste a lot of time with our calendar. We are constantly using calendars to look up things: from what date it is today, to what day of the week New Years falls on. For the geek in me, I think it would be nice if we never had to do this. Our current calendar--like a lot of other things we have inherited from less busy ages--could be a little more efficient.

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Freeware Software

There is so much crappy software out there. There is a lot of crappy shareware software with annoying nag screens, free programs which are poorly written, and of course overpriced commercial software. For almost every case of software that you either have to pay for, or is of this annoying shareware variety, there is a nice little freeware program that does the job better. Over the years I've used a lot of different software and I think I've found the best for most of the things you'll do on a computer.

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