of Lars J. Nilsson

Random bird song, because autumn is here.

• Why Anton Krupicka Runs Barefoot: http://ow.ly/6lyyp
• The great bank robbery – Global Public Square – CNN.com Blogs http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/09/02/the-great-bank-robbery/
• Immune System, Loaded With Remade T-cells, Vanquishes Cancer: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/13/health/13gene.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all?src=tp
• Nice little Daniel C Dennett interview: http://ow.ly/6we0w
• Proposing a 10 euro per gb data roaming cap: http://t.co/NloErZLJ
• Insane tabloid headline about little person porn star killed by animal – Boing Boing http://boingboing.net/2011/09/19/insane-tabloid-headline-about-little-person-porn-star-killed-by-animal.html
• Expose the think tanks! Stephen Law nails it: http://ow.ly/6Bw1l

Enjoy!

As I was at my mother’s cottage in the deep woods of Sweden and not, as it were, in NYC, I had limited spectators on my run. But hey! The sheep looked interested (and interesting, I was getting a bit peckish) and the birds fled as I flew, so I’m not complaining. It was a brilliant mid-autumn afternoon, with the sun hanging low in the sky and all leafs just barely starting to change colours…

Random birdsong, disturbing your morning sleep:

• Very good piece about how we treat ourselves. Self-help of the month! “You Are Unique, Not Special”: http://t.co/7Uc6NPy
• From Jason Robbilard: “Barefoot and Natural Running Form: How Do I Know If I’m Doing It Right?”: http://t.co/t00aFhH
• An old classic: “Hell’s Angel: Mother Theresa”, by Christopher Hitchens: http://ow.ly/5RxAl
• Brilliant! “Debunking Kalams Cosmological Argument”: http://ow.ly/5QccN
• From Lifehacker.com: “Think before you speak”: http://ow.ly/5DVoV
• Robbilard again: “Run for Fun: A Running Plan for the Rest of Us”: http://t.co/S6GBtTZ
• More self-help: “Embrace change”: http://ow.ly/5qzx5

Enjoy!

Random birdsong, collect for your amusement:

• “Don’t base your decisions on the advice of people who don’t have to deal with the results.” @MoreedMurrar
• Self-help must-read of the day, “15 Style of Distorted Thinking”: http://ow.ly/5kZYU
• As the man says, easier said than done. Still good. Via @boingboing: http://ow.ly/5kZOw #stoicism
• “Where not all in it together: That bankers still gets bonuses is like Bin Laden getting air bonuses after 9/11.” – Greg Russel
• Stephen Law on Pseudo-profundity: http://ow.ly/5j2fQ
• Independent testing on minimal running shoes? Hell yes: http://j.mp/kC2IOV

Previously I was doing Mindless Link Propagation manually. These days, all such links goes into my Twitter feed. So, if you want to know what kind of strange things I stumble upon, that’s where to hang out.

But if you don’t have/want/like Twitter, I’ll also post some batches here, “from the twitter feed”:

• Solving vs Reporting: Shoot the messanger
• Rick Falkvinge on Cryptocurrencies and taxes
• Black planets my be plentiful after all
• How to translate software job listings
• The entire night time sky, documented
• The management (MBA) myth

As you can see on the posts below, I reviewed a couple of books today… Well, truth be told I moved from LivingSocial and their Visual Bookshelf Facebook app to Goodreads instead.Visual Bookshelf was just way too slow. And also, LivingSocial is doing Groupon like offers nowadays, so I don’t really trust them to stay around.

So Goodreads? Well, we’ll see. Seems alright at first light. Fairly decent UI, and fairly quick. Also, it can cross post to WordPress (as seen below), Twitter and Facebook. So that makes me a happy panda.

Here’s to technology!

So, this blog is now on WordPress 3.1 and hopefully up for an awakening again. Upgrade was… Interesting, for some reason wordpress re-wrote all image URL’s during import, and also removed all formatting?! Well, I’ll just have to fix it as I go along. Now, for a better theme…

So, this blog is now moved from WordPress.org to my own little domain. Now the work begins to make it look good as well… Ah, the sound of late nights, I can hear you!

Is a brand new HTC Desire! From which this post is expertly done

Time to close some tabs, this time on my perhaps greatest intellectual heroes. Daniel C Dennett and Douglas Adams.  Starting with Adams:

• “Is there an artificial god?” – Douglas Adams brilliant speech on Digital Biota 2 Cambridge U.K., September 1998. Fabulous stuff in a rambling typical Adamesque way. Including the famous puddle analogy and the ages of sand. Long read, but worth it.
• “Parrots, the universe and everything” – A likewise rambling speech, but this time on video. Hilarious and reflective, just what we loved him for. And do read the book, it is rather nice.

And now Dennett:

• “Free Will” – A lecture from Edinburgh University. This is, if you like, a short version of his book Freedom Evolves. Which you should read (I’m re-reading now).
• “Thank Goodness” – Reflections on his near death experience (from an atheist’s perspective) and a moving thanks to the advancements of science and medicine we tend to take for granted these day. I don’t think I could be as hard on the theists though, but the man has a point.
• “Autobiography, pt I” – And if you need more, here’s some on the man himself.

Enjoy!