August 2010
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To return to my main point: eclectic, simplistic, and popularized appropriation of Wittgensteinian linguistics and uncritical engagement with pop culture finds fertile soil in a movement committed not so much to the real implications of Wittgenstein’s philosophy of language as to the defusing of the problems faced by a transdenominational movement seeking a place at that oft-mentioned but...
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Blitzen Trapper - Farthest Shore
“My love,...
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July 2010
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Deterrence Doesn't Work
“Day-care is day-care the world over; working parents with children under school age need someone to watch their children during the day. Sometimes day-care is set up as a public service, other times as a business, but in either case, the parents and the day-care workers have a potential daily clash of interests: pick-up time. The workers have the outside lives, so they want all the kids...
“I have often said that the sole cause of man’s unhappiness is that he does not...”
– Blaise Pascal
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All the terms changed. I never realized how much web terminology had crept into my vocabulary. An iPad app doesn’t have pages, it has screens or views. You don’t click, you tap. You don’t scroll, you swipe. I spent much of our early meetings stumbling over my own words just to communicate the basics. Goodbye, sweet hover. I’ve always loved hover states. When a web page changes under...
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Pi Lo Chun Imperial →
This delicate, handmade tea has a very fresh and sweet aroma. The brewed tea tastes like springtime in a mountain meadow: sweet, slightly grassy, slightly floral, and very satisfying.
Currently drinking.
George Orwell’s 5 Rules for Effective Writing →
1. Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
This sounds easy, but in practice is incredibly difficult. Phrases such astoe the line, ride roughshod over, stand shoulder to shoulder with, play into the hands of, an axe to grind, Achilles’ heel, swan song, and hotbedcome to mind quickly and feel comforting and melodic.
For this...
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“As Bryan Caplan, the George Mason University economist (who wrote in Reason back...”
– Brian Doherty - Where Do Libertarians Belong Politically? (reason.com July 21, 2010)
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How well do you see colour? →
Drag and drop the colors in each row to arrange them by hue order. Lower is better. I scored 0.
via Jessica Breedlove
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TED is a form of social intercourse over ideas porn.
via Non Static
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Pale Young Gentlemen - Paper Planes (M.I.A....
I’m a bit worried.
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