Animal of the Month: Black Grouse Get the Flash Player to see this player. Wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson chooses his top 10 bird songs via plump plum – some other of plump’s goodness: Nabokov on Lolita (part 2) [6m], Frank Zappa on Crossfire [21m] Wu Tang Clan Ain’t Nothin to Fuck With[3m]… at Chess [4m]: Apparently RZA is also a chess champion besides being one of the best rappers. Google News: ahh if only […]
Category: internet
linkeridoodah, linkeriday
I found my animal of the month, so it’s time to post some links! Animal of the Month: Tamandua (30s) The Killing Machine: “Partly inspired by Franz Kafka’s ‘In the Penal Colony’ and partly by the American system of capital punishment as well as the current political situation, the piece is an ironic approach to killing and torture machines. A moving megaphone speaker encircles an electric dental chair. The chair is covered in pink fun […]
Dependence Logic vs. Independence Friendly Logic
I picked up Dependence Logic: A New Approach to Independence Friendly Logic by Jouko Väänänen. I figure I’ll write up a review when I am finished with the book, but there is one chief difference between Dependence Logic and Independence Friendly Logic that needs to be mentioned. On pages 44-47 when describing the difference between Dependence Logic and Independence Friendly Logic Väänänen says, The backslashed quantifier, ∃xn{xi0,…,xim-1}φ, introduced in ref. [20], with the intuitive meaning: […]
Links, to appease the Gods of Blogs
I offer this links post as a sacrifice to the… oh I have no idea why I do this. Animal of the Month – Elephant (8:28): lies i’ve told my 3 year old recently, by raul gutierrez, as emphasized by swissmiss: Trees talk to each other at night. All fish are named either Lorna or Jack. Before your eyeballs fall out from watching too much TV, they get very loose. Tiny bears live in drain […]
David Schrader on WNYC: The Brian Lehrer Show
or click here: The Brian Lehrer Show: Heavy Thinking (April 07, 2008)
Links, BEcause
Not that everyone hasn’t already seen everything on the ‘net. Animal of the Month – Armadillo girdled lizard: YouTube – A History of Evil (5:40) “Animated Documentary-Mockumentary about Evil in western civilization from Ancient Greece to present day.” Nils Frederking‘s Brilliant Folding Furniture (0:52) [via]: garfield minus garfield “Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and the […]
Some Links, not that you really needed more
IGN: Bob Ross Paints on Revolution That’s right. There will be a ‘Joy of Painting with Bob Ross’ video game coming out for Wii. Bold Escape Not First Try for Inmate – New York Times Guys escaped from prison Shawshank Redemption style. Draw a pig personality test YouTube – Groovy Dancing Girl Music by DAFT PUNK – “Harder Better Faster Stronger” Video Beatbox Fame Game It’s a cooking show… kinda. plump plum: Clara Bow Blood […]
Philosopher’s Carnival to be hosted here!
I’ve agreed to host the Philosopher’s Carnival here on February 18. So if you think you got what it takes, tough guy/gal, submit a post and I’ll tell you whether you’re up to snuff.
‘It’s Nice That’ had a good day.
Two most excellent finds on ‘It’s Nice That‘: fig crumbs (blog) animal of the month: pangolin!
Design junkie
Perhaps two people know this about me but I am a design junkie. Notcot.org is my favorite blog of all time. Recently I’ve even contributed a few posts (#7106, #6974). I’m not sure what it is about design that I like so much. There is always that form/function distinction but I don’t think that is exactly what attracts me. It is more along the lines of personal engineering: with the right stuff you can do […]