Posts Tagged: Philosophy & Sophistry
The Theory of Everything - Now on Video!
Posted by on Tuesday, November 4, 2003 in
Having gotten so much from Brian Greene’s book, The Elegant Universe, I was pleased to learn (via kottke.org) that it was to be the subject of a documentary of the same name on PBS. • The entire three hour program is available to view in streaming video. Taking a three hour program to the web is …
Hypocritical Greenery
Posted by on Monday, October 27, 2003 in - 3 comments
Two semi-random environmental notes from a complete evironmental hypocrite (me): • First, Tessa Blake, who shared her fantastic soon-to-be-release film, The Pink House at the Zap Your PRAM conference mentioned the weekly Chicago radio show This American Life. When I saw the link to This American …
God, Satan, on CNN
Posted by on Friday, October 17, 2003 in - 4 comments
The front page of CNN.com often seems to be as hilarious and absurd as the front page of The Onion. My friend Dan James point today’s particularly notable list of “top stories” (see the full screenshot):
Video of Reboot conference presentations
Posted by on Sunday, June 29, 2003 in - 2 comments
Video of the presentations from the Reboot technology conference in Denmark is available for download. Presenters include Jason Fried (37signals and Signal vs. Noise) on contingency design and Cory Doctorow (author of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom) on digital rights management and copyright (a …
The Genius Box: quality educational streaming video
Posted by on Tuesday, April 29, 2003 in - 2 comments
During my recent spell as a Mac-user, a friend pointed me to an interesting talk by Apple’s VP of Software Technology and all-around Unix-guy, Bud Tribble. The talk was great, both in terms of content (the speaker was interesting) and delivery (the streaming media was smooth and of sufficient …
Learning about the creative commons
Posted by on Thursday, August 15, 2002 in
I haven't felt that I've known enough about copyright and patents to have a clear position on the related issues. I have ordered Laurence Lessig's book, The Future of Ideas, in order to learn more about the issue. • In anticipation of reading the book, I watched/listened to Lessig's keynote …
when I grow up I'm gonna be a physicist
Posted by on Sunday, February 24, 2002 in - 10 comments
While aov rages with debate about web standards and development techniques, a regular reader speaks up for those who aren't enthralled by cascading style sheets and asks us to throw them a conversational bone. Fair enough, how's general relativity for a Sunday conversation topic? • Brian … read more »
words and phrases due for retirement
Posted by on Saturday, December 15, 2001 in - 44 comments
It is usually a good practice to have your house in order before start shitting on your neighbours, lest you be shit upon yourself (I know there are more appropriate analogies, but they all seem so cliché). Criticizing writing can be a dangerous thing to do. If you do so and make a typo (something …
War, War, & Hockey
Posted by on Saturday, December 8, 2001 in - 6 comments
This is what I found on the front page of the CBC website today. • Note the earth-shatteringly improtant three main headlines. Everything they say about Canadians is true.
"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity."
Posted by on Monday, April 30, 2001 in - 3 comments
George Orwell is cool. 1984 and Animal Farm are staples of the high-school English class. If you read them in high-school, reread them. If not, read them. I was directed to an article Orwell wrote which feels like a hopeful obituary for the English language. • If you do any writing …