Saturday's Mini Codices

Here is today's installment:

• I definately plan to start listeing to the Narrow Mind, an Unchained Radio podcast


• If you haven't already, start using Foxmarks in order to let your Firefox web browser bookmarks span multiple machines.


• The Hapiness Project shares some good principles in office design that will help keep employees happier.


• Have you ever wanted to be a hermit?


• This looks singularly amusing and weird: "An essay on the propagation of the gospel : in which there are numerous facts and arguments adduced to prove that many of the Indians in America are descended from the ten tribes"


• If you followed my last post about ethics and exceptional cases, here are three interesting scattered links which speak about some related issues:




• A Christian View of Ethics


• On Lying by Augustine


• Ethical Choices: A Case For Non-Conflicting Absolutism


• Interestingly enough, this religious principle (Taqiyya) authorizes Muslims to lie about their faith in order to save themselves from physical danger. That belief is not universally accepted among Muslims, though.




• The Thoreau Reader had some of Henry David Thoreau's writings


• Ever wondered if you are a cynic? Check this out.