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.
via: suddenly: influent: gtforn: dethjunkie
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.
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.
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:
