Things I need but have done without.
A Desk A Dresser A Couch Things I have but don’t need. Doyle Brunson’s Super System Balsamic Vinegar 4 of 5 Phonebooks
A Desk A Dresser A Couch Things I have but don’t need. Doyle Brunson’s Super System Balsamic Vinegar 4 of 5 Phonebooks
Evolution and Creation Wow, this is depressing. Instead of a pursuit for a quantifiable understanding of the world, every little niche philosophy or interest can throw up their own wiki? This will end well. posted by rzklkng at 5:59 AM PST on March 1 To be consistent, a truly creationist Wiki would only be editable [...]
Every so often I come across conspiracies relating to 9-11. Example. For some reason I found these theories deeply disturbing, especially considering the quality of evidence in the accepted narrative. Then I remembered that some people have an innate inability to understand complexity, and I started feeling better. UPDATE: I’ve been taken to task (rightly [...]
I found the last paragraph of this to be the clearest statement yet of a long held belief of mine. Consider, The APA is, as most modern professional institutions as well as governments are wont to do, speaking a top-down language about a quintessentially bottom-up problem. You want a different culture than what you got? [...]
I’m not a humanities wonk, but I thought of the following question today: What famous modernist thinkers are not tainted by antisemitism? James Joyce is the only name that comes to mind. UPDATE: Fortunately, I know a humanities wonk. Here’s what she has to say: Spinoza would be another (though perhaps that’s cheating a little, [...]
Any problem in computer science can be solved with another layer of indirection. But that usually will create another problem. –David Wheeler