From the Twitter Feed; Midwinter
All the little burdies have gone south. Except this one. And it’s taking a 6 months dump, brace yourselves!
All the little burdies have gone south. Except this one. And it’s taking a 6 months dump, brace yourselves!
Here’s a late summer tweet-dump, for your amusement: Oracle loses BIG to Google – no patent infringement, no damages, jury dismissed! Android and Java safe! – http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120523125023818 Interviews With People Who Have Interesting or Unusual Jobs: Ken Doyle, Safecracker.: [...]
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: [...]
Random birdsong, dissonant mind: The Entire Facebook Terms of Service in Bro Speak: http://slacktory.com/2011/08/entire-facebook-terms-of-service-in-bro-speak/ The state of “epic” fantasy. Hear me rant: http://www.larsan.net/2011/08/the-state-of-fantasy/ Yes! Deus Ex: Human Revolution är släppt! Whoo! http://ow.ly/6aD3A [...]
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: [...]
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 [...]
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”: [...]
A quick one here, I just re-discovered Philosophy Bites. Good stuff! Here’s what I just listened to: Stephen Law on The Problem of Evil – A bit on the light side, but Stephen Law is becoming a favourite, so I liked it anyway. Anthony Grayling on Atheism – Again a bit on the light side, but as a primer on Atheism… [...]
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 [...]
TIme to close tabs. This time two of the links will be in Swedish, sorry about that. Fokus writes Spelet om FRA (SE). This is an article about what happened behind the scenes when the Swedish parliament pushed through its recent signal tapping laws. If true, it is really incredibly stuff fit for any Tom Clancy novel. When the prime [...]