Dangerous Intersection – Website to Undergo Repairs

I've been pulled away from writing for a variety of compelling reasons lately, but that's a temporary lull. I have a lot of ideas I will be sharing in the coming weeks and months.

One of the recent distractions is my troubled website. I'm getting a lot of error codes and dysfunctions. My plan is to rebuild this website over the next few days. It's going to get a lot uglier before it becomes functional again. When it is fully restored, DI will include all of the current content (more than 6,000 articles over the past 15 years) and I plan to add to it, at least several articles per week, all of it free of charge and ad free.

Thank you for your patience.

Erich

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Reminder: Share Links to Dangerous Intersection Articles with Others Who Might be Interested

I've written at Dangerous Intersection since 2006 and I try to write on topics that don't seem to be getting much attention elsewhere. I try to be factual and non-confrontational in my writing. If you are a subscriber, thank you for being part of this endeavor! If you are not a subscriber, it's easy to subscribe using the top widget on the right. I promise to keep this website uncluttered and ad-free. The only thing you'll find at this site are articles. I work hard to include relevant links in the article so that you don't need to trust me for this information--just follow the links!

I encourage you to share anything I write with anyone you know who might also be interested. The easiest way it to text or email the URL of the article. You'll also find a "Share/Save" button at the bottom of every article (You won't see this button on the Homepage, but only after you click on the title to the article).

I write at this site for two reasons. I use this website as my personal scrapbook in order to post information that I might need to locate in the future. If you would ever like to locate anything in my archives, use the search box on the right (the one with the red "Search" button). Immediately below it is a Google search function.

Again, thank you for visiting. This is mostly a reminder that if you know others who would be interested, feel free to share these articles with them as well.

Erich

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Dangerous Intersection is under construction, always

Recently, it occurred to me that we should have a mobile version of Dangerous Intersection, but I learned that the plugins allowing mobile versions required upgrading my WordPress Platform version. My past two attempts to upgrade to 2.9x hadn’t gone well (I twice tried and twice reverted to version 2.7 over the past few months). This week’s upgrade to 3.0 worked without any snags, however. I truly love the WordPress system and the fact that it's open-source software. To take full advantage of the 3.0 features, I also decided to upgrade the design of this website, making use of Solostream’s newest WordPress design theme, called “Prosper.” BTW, I’m extremely happy with Solostream’s products, forums and customer service. In case you’re wondering, this single use version of “Prosper” cost $79, which I consider a great price, given the loads of feature options, most of which require no knowledge of html. There's no way I could have afforded a custom design this sophisticated. Coming soon, I hope, will be a mobile version of Dangerous Intersection. Until I started using an iPhone (my workplace offered them to employees this year), it didn’t occur to me that I would actually spend significant amounts of time reading from a mobile device, especially while waiting in lines or riding mass transit. Well, that’s how the world is moving, it seems. I hope you enjoy the new design of DI, which I worked to make more “open” than my previous designs. You'll notice that it is a two-column site now (more or less). I also took the liberty of reworking the title artwork and moving in some new navigation features. For instance, if you search categories or key words, the results will now show up in three columns, making it easier to scan your results. I’m still making quite a few tweaks, and some of the previously existing features are not yet back in. Thus, you are looking at a design-work-in-progress to go along with the contemplative-work-in-progress. If this website continues to be successful, that is how it should be—one of our main goals should always be to avoid ossification. That is essentially what philosopher Bertrand Russell once told someone who had accused him of having changed his mind on a topic. Russell pointed out that the option to changing is stagnating. Update: We now seem to have the mobile version of Dangerous Intersection working. I've been testing it on an iPhone, while Josh Timmons, who aptly hosts the site and provides technical consultations, indicates that DI also looks good on Android.

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Buy Dangerous Intersection

Apparently you can buy a subscription to Dangerous Intersection for only 99 cents at Amazon. I registered DI at Amazon about a year ago, but I had forgotten about this way of reading DI. I'm curious, though. Does anyone out there read DI on a Kindle? If so, do the layout and photos translate well on the Kindle?

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Some older posts . . .

A friend recently asked me about the ideas that moved me over the past few years. I've written about many of those ideas at Dangerous Intersection. Today, I'm offering links to some of my favorite posts. I decided to gather these posts into one place as a reminder of some of the "Best Of" ideas, those that have especially challenged and moved me. It's not my own writing that interests me here, but the content--most of these ideas are not my own. I was working mostly as a reporter. I should also note that thought I've gathered the ideas about which I have written, there are quite a few other authors who write at this site. To view the posts of any of the authors, simply go to the bottom right corner of the home page and click on one of the author names. I've divided the posts into some broad categories. The titles appear in the link, so I haven't bothered to link them all properly. Cognitive science and linguistics http://dangerousintersection.org/2010/06/26/why-are-human-animals-such-hypocrites-because-we-are-little-lawyers-riding-big-elephants/ http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/11/25/jonathan-haidt-urges-that-we-escape-moral-righteousness/ http://dangerousintersection.org/2009/05/03/why-it-matters-that-humans-are-animals/ http://dangerousintersection.org/2006/10/23/apollo-13-early-course-corrections-and-the-soul/ http://dangerousintersection.org/2009/12/12/reminder-that-struggle-for-existence-is-a-conceptual-metaphor/ http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/12/14/we-are-gods-with-anuses-another-look-at-%E2%80%9Cterror-management-theory%E2%80%9D/ [More . . . ]

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