January 2010
57 posts
Richard Dawkins: the truth dogs reveal about... →
Malcolm Tucker on reality (The Thick of It, pilot)
Hugh Abbot MP: I'm not quite sure what level of reality I'm supposed to be operating on.
Malcolm Tucker: Look, this is what they run with. I tell them that you said it. They believe that you said it. They don't really believe you said it, they know that you never said it, but it's in their interest to say that you said it, because if they don't say that you said it, they're not gonna get what you say tomorrow or the next day when I decide to tell them what it is you're saying.
Hugh Abbot MP: Yeah, I am following this... I'm just...
Hugh Abbot MP: (later, to a reporter) I didn't say that we weren't doing it, which is as good as saying that we were.
Cultural Differences →
“In 2005, the online chess-playing site Playchess.com hosted what it called a...”
– The chess master and the computer, by Gary Kasparov (via cdixon)
P.C. Never Died - Reason Magazine →
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The Cynic's Conundrum →
New Device Desirable, Old Device Undesirable | The... →
Color Identifying System For The Color Blind →
“The alligator people did not scream. Their mouths could not form the sounds. The...”
– From a NYT review of The Last Train From Hiroshima. Complete insanity. There were apparently 165 people who survived both Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The quote in context continues:
He describes the so-called “ant-walking alligators” that the survivors saw everywhere, men and women who “were now...
When anti-Semitism is just a click away - Haaretz... →
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Tony Clifton | Music | Interview | The A.V. Club →
FT.com / Reportage - Moscow’s stray dogs →
The RV Loophole →
peHUB » Malcolm Gladwell Must Be Stopped →
Eugene Shvidler - Russian billionaire | Life and... →
Difficult languages: Tongue twisters | The... →
Was Ian Fleming the real 007? - Times Online →
“Having read your article about difficult languages I scoff at Tuyuca and Kwaio...”
– In response to “Tongue Twisters”, December 19th, The Economist.
“Nulla tenaci invia est via”
– For the tenacious, no road is impassable. The motto of Spyker Cars.
Was Paul a Jew? - by Judith Shulevitz > Tablet... →
The Wandering Jew in 'An Education': The Anatomy... →
I don’t agree completely with the reading, mostly in the symbolic depths it plumbs around Elgar (I think it’d be sufficient to say that the English nationalism he supported was ipso facto hostile to Jews). The film does depict David as The Wandering Jew, and Hornby’s confused denial of the fact only suggests that it was done without obvious malice, in the same way that D. W....
“Thirty spokes unite at the single hub;
It is the empty space which makes the...”
– Lao Zi, via http://ilovetypography.com/2008/03/12/newzald-moleskine-to-market/
More translations.
Dive Into HTML5 →
The Way We Live Now - Walk Away From Your... →
“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent...”
– Bertrand Russell
Dunning–Kruger effect - Wikipedia, the free... →
Spaceflight Now | Breaking News | Three Martian... →
The Banker Who Said No - Forbes.com →
Invisible hands: The secret world of the oil... →
“The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what...”
– “…If you do that every day … you will never be stuck. Always stop while you are going good and don’t think about it or worry about it until you start to write the next day. That way your subconscious will work on it all the time. But if you think about it consciously or worry about it...
Begging the question →
“It is, after all, the dab of grit that seeps into an oyster’s shell that makes...”
– Stephen King, On Writing
L.A. Gangs Seek Profit in Peace - WSJ.com →
Video: I gave a talk on "UI Fundamentals for... →
The Banker Who Said No - Forbes.com →
Extending the Recession Indefinitely - Vin... →