A pungent mix of programming, philosophy, pedanticism, procrastination, perplexity, peripheral political polemic, and platters of preposterousness.
Sorry for the very light blogging over the last few days. My computer is acting very strangely at the moment, making posting rather difficult. I’m currently on the train and there’s a lovely, big, black Scottish Dane rolling around on the carpet next to me. I’ll hopefully get some photos in a minute.
Look, folks, us Britons are pretty fricking dumb. Hey, Kansas, we’re coming to see you! “;->”
I missed this story, but Missouri want to ban cold beer. Also dumb. Perhaps I should have titled this blog “DumbFilter”.
Every so often, a news story pops up which is new, but so unsurprising. Today, it’s the news that there’s a lot of bullying which goes on in the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. Now may be the time to point to some lovely Two Jags quotes.
Jason has, as usual, an excellent post reviewing Leonard Susskind’s The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design (Amazon).
Earl Mardle has an ode to the Cluetrain Manifesto.
BBC News: “Students think their lecturers are stuck-up, disorganised, unpunctual, unfunny, badly dressed and too desperate to be “hip”, a poll suggests.” Look, I have objectionable facial hair, people. And I’m a student.
The Mac Observer on Rosetta, Universal binaries and games.
The Village Voice on Wikipedia (via Rex Hammond)
Apparently, the law of precedent is being turned upside down.
Donald Fagen’s got a new album coming out. I loved the Nightfly, and I’m looking forward to this album.
David Hasselhoff. Oh, how the mighty have fallen!
kukkurovaca on the Lifehacker comments:
“[this software] basically requires me to reroute my thought processes around an assumption which is not native to them; I don’t think in chunks — no matter how freely associated — but in streams, to which I apply (or from which I induce) structure after the fact. This, I suppose is where paper notebooks continue to outclass electronic text-organizing systems despite all their apparent advantages.”
“[this software] basically requires me to reroute my thought processes around an assumption which is not native to them; I don’t think in chunks — no matter how freely associated — but in streams, to which I apply (or from which I induce) structure after the fact. This, I suppose is where paper notebooks continue to outclass electronic text-organizing systems despite all their apparent advantages.”
He sounds like he needs an outliner. You probably do too. Get one!
Outliners work with you whether you think in chunks or streams. It’s a simple tool that gives you Heinz’s “57 Varieties”. Stir in some connectedness, and you’ll wonder why you ever used anything else. As for word processes, get yourself LyX.
Update: Response.
