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lauantai, marraskuu 4
7. Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
perjantai, marraskuu 3
Suck, October 10, 1998: An Oldie but a Goodie
Reports of Ross Perot's sanity may be exaggerated, but he hasn't lost his value as a tribal elder. In the recent colloquy with Larry King on the state of President Clinton's mental health, the feisty Texan and the Brooklyn blowhard got into a phrenological discussion that resembled an aboriginal creation myth:
PEROT: When we smell something we don't smell until in our heart tells what it is.
KING: The heart is pumping. The brain ...
PEROT: The heart, breathing, learning to move. Now, brain learns, when we were very small we couldn't walk. The brain learned how to let us walk. Then if you're an acrobatic, the brain learned how to let you do all kinds of tricks.
KING: But the brain gave us obsessions, and it gave us bad things. It gave us torment, it gave us difficulty, it gave us conflict. All of those things. I don't mean to interrupt you.
PEROT: No, no, no. That's great. That's all part of life, see?
torstai, marraskuu 2
My new favorite optical illusion.
Butterfly World Redux — get it while it lasts (it only lives in Google's cache now).
The Gall!
Just out of nowhere, this one.
OS X Human-Interface Guidelines? Adopting the Aqua Interface. Warning: large PDF file. (via Joe Clark.)
keskiviikko, marraskuu 1
MasterCard/Maestro/Cirrus ATM Locator: Antarctica: kind of reassuring, kind of disturbing.
tiistai, lokakuu 31
Happy Halloween and, to my parents, Happy Anniversary! (29 lovin' years — and who believed that a 1971 marriage that featured a carved pumpkin as the centerpiece at dinner would do that well?)
Reflog madness: Now I'm part of a cirriculum too. And Craig Burton (who lived in the apartment above me in 95-96 and started doing web development around the same time) now has a blog.
Non-reflog: Lots of good comics can be found in this MetaFilter thread (but when will Leisure Town return?!).
And the deadline for the Web4096 contest (as in 4096 byters, an even tighter constraint than the 5k) is approaching. At least I think it is, but the site is down right now.
A certain AJ Marr writes in to say that my review of Csikszentmihalyi's Flow is "the only one he really cares for so far" and also points out his site, Dr. Mezmer, wherein you'll find such things as Dr. Mezmer's World of Bad Psychology, Dr. Mezmer's Guide to Bad Psychology and Dr. Mezmer's Guide to Love, Sex, and Carburetor Repair.
Hey, atheists! You can use the word "wicked" as well! It's a good word, and works better than "evil" does nowadays, because of the connotations of willfullness associated with "wicked". For example, say "He is a wicked man." instead of "He is an evil man." Since "evil" started being used (presumably metaphorically) for non-agents (as in "the evil cancer spread to his lymph nodes" — note that "wicked" wouldn't really work in that context) "wicked" is the better alternative when you want to convey that someone is not only evil, but responsible for their own evilness.
Rest in peace.
Here are some of the other things on this site:
The 5k contest
Someday to get its own home.
Stephen Toulmin's 1979 Ryerson Lecture at the University of Chicago, The Inwardness of Mental Life, reprinted with the kind permission of the Author & the University.
An excerpt from an interview with philosopher Donald Davidson, which I find complements the former.
Some pictures of Illuminares, Vancouver's annual latern festival.
Some pictures of The Symphony of Fire, Vancouver's annual fireworks competition.
A video from my second trip to Vegas in the year 2000. Sad, that.
And more, to be dusted off.