A pungent mix of programming, philosophy, pedanticism, procrastination, perplexity, peripheral political polemic, and platters of preposterousness.
Dave Price demonstrates that Christine Rosen, who wrote a review of Glenn Reynold’s book An Army of Davids in the National Review, doesn’t understand those funny hyperlink things that we all know and love.
Merlin Mann has an interesting post on OmniOutliner Pro’s use by a law student. OO is a good outliner, but I think that if they whole-heartedly embraced OPML and some of the benefits that OPML has, they could build something much more interesting. Writing OPML in OmniOutliner is currently a large PITA compared to writing it by hand or in the OPML Editor.
I can imagine that law school would be a place where organising large volumes of information from different sources would be important - and OPML handles that perfectly.
Bryan Appleyard reminds me of how we should update an old maxim: “Children (and politicians) should be heard and not seen”. It used to be the other way around. It’s funny, because one of the criticisms people make of the youth today is that they are obsessed with image. They cite things like Big Brother as an example.
But in fact, “Children should be seen and not heard” is obsession with image in a way that goes beyond even the worst excesses of celebrity mania because it’s unconscious.
I don’t want to see children or politicians. In fact, I don’t want to see the vast majority of people. I’m more interested in hearing them in whatever way they put themselves out there.
Harlequin on talk.origins points out a Michael Behe/Ann Coulter quotemine. Read the source.
Hey, buddies, we’re your allies. Yes, we have trains and owls and all that. And we sacrificed what credibility we have in the world by believing you on the WMD. You can at least acknowledge our existence. The pull-quote from that is obvious: “England: It’s far too silly a place to be real”.
