When a Phillips is not a Phillips — Screw heads demystified.
Everything That Happens Will Happen Today is a long awaited collaboration between David Byrne and Brian Eno.
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Bert and Ernie cover M.O.P.’s Ante Up.
Complex Declarative Learning [pdf]
“The most basic observation one can make about declarative knowledge is that human
beings have a lot of it.” Learning and the acquisition of declarative and procedural knowledge. [html version - via google cache]
Symbolic Logic - By Lewis Carrol
“When you come to any passage you don’t understand,
read it again: if you still don’t understand it, read it again:
if you fail, even after three readings, very likely your brain
is getting a little tired.”
Does Winnipeg REALLY Exist? From the people behind the new IncrediblyCool.ca.
Play My Music Videos
Music-video stream based on last.fm user preferences. Enter a username of stungeye and you’ll get a stream of videos customized to my tastes. (There are problems with bands that have no videos on YouTube like The Goods. And it insists on playing Iron Maiden instead of Iron & Wine.)
Beauty in Symmetry - Manitoba Legislative Building (1939)
Note the outline showing the former parliament building and the diagonal entry paths foreseeing future desire lines.
From the amazing Manitoba Historical Maps Flickr Stream.
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the ad hominem fallacy fallacy
Debates on the internet tend towards flame wars; however, “if you can’t demonstrate that your opponent is trying to counter your argument by attacking you, you can’t demonstrate that he is resorting to ad hominem.”
“Those who are quick to squeal ‘ad hominem’ are often guilty of several other logical fallacies, including one of the worst of all: the fallacious belief that introducing an impressive-sounding Latin term somehow gives one the decisive edge in an argument.”
A might be wrong, but B’s reply is not Ad Hominem:
- A: “All rodents are mammals, but a weasel isn’t a rodent, so it can’t be a mammal.”
- B: “You’re an asshole.”
Hearrings [via]
Pirates of the Amazon Abandon Ship
Dutch students “release a Firefox extension that made it easy for people who were browsing books, music and movies on Amazon to download the same products free through the Pirate Bay, the illicit BitTorrent site.”
Amazon serves a take-down notice. Students comply.
Student defend their work as parody:
“[Amazon and the Pirate Bay] might look like opposites, but are actually quite similar in regards to the mainstream media content they provide. Our project demonstrated this practically. So it’s a parody of any kind of media consumerism, whether corporate or subcultural.”
The students weren’t hosting or providing pirated media. They were pointing the way. Will this eventually lead to world governments enacting legislation that limits certain types of linking on the net? Might it eventually be illegal for me or Google to link to the Pirate Bay?
Source: tnyt
– A sentence Michael Van Rooy, Aqua Books Writer in Residence, wrote this week while working on his third novel upstairs at 274 Garry.I drank the dead man’s scotch straight from the bottle.
Algorithmic Stained-Glass
Mysterious Attainment from a Winnipeg-based FlickrStream. Be sure to read the photo titles.
How to Backpack
Contains this beautiful maxim: “Never step on anything you can step over. Never step over anything you can step around.”
Turritopsis nutricula
An immortal jellyfish.
“The ability to reverse the life cycle is probably unique in the animal kingdom, and allows the jellyfish to bypass death.”