SPI, evolution of love & language, Orkut, Debian mini meet

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I sent out mails to all contributing members of <a href =
"http://www.spi-inc.org/">SPI</a> today asking them to re-new their
application. Most of the work for this was done by <a href =
"http://www.advogato.org/person/weasel/">weasel</a> (for which I'm glad),
but I sent the mails because weasel was busy.  Later I found an
interesting article from an anthropologist writing about evolutionary
aspects of love (unfortunately, this article disappeared from the
web later, tbm, 2006-02-16).  Looking at the site, I also found a link to an
article on New Scientist on the development of language.  I'm
interested in evolutionary psychology in general, and these two topics in
particular (especially in language), so this was a good read.  I guess I
don't have to mention <a href = "http://www.orkut.com/">Orkut</a>.  I got an
invitation last weekend and signed up out of boredom, but since then half
of Debian has signed up.  It reminds me of &quot;All your base are belong
to us&quot; &mdash; I wonder how long it'll stay interesting, but probably
not all too long.  Which is a shame, really, because I like to see how
people are connected.  However, the site doesn't really offer too much
functionality to make it interesting in the long run.  Yesterday, I spent
the afternoon with some Debian people, first going to a pub, then to the
beer festival and later for curry.

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