January 2012
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December 2011
1 post
“I was much cheered on my arrival by the warden at the gate, who had to take...”
– Bertrand Russell – Portraits from Memory pp. 33-34
July 2011
1 post
Millions Irrationally Feared Dead In Minor Train... →
Today Now! with Jim Haggerty and Tracy Gill:
– Millions irrationally feared dead after train derails
– Nation concocting increasingly improbable reasons loved ones died in crash
– Family members as far as Alaska, Hawaii now being pictured suffering
– Before crisis is over, entire U.S. population may be believed dead
– Federal Emergency Management Agency urging population to avoid derailment...
March 2011
1 post
“You are about to embark on a great journey across an infinite ocean of...”
– Your Horoscopes - Week Of February 8, 2011
February 2011
3 posts
“Although you feel as if you are all alone in a cold, brutal, and uncaring world,...”
– Your Horoscopes - Week Of February 8, 2011
Appendix 2[K] →
I have now “liked” a round 2048 things on tumblr; they’re listed taphonomically in the appendix section of this log.
“Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.”
– Pablo Picasso
January 2011
4 posts
“The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found...”
– Charles Lamb
December 2010
6 posts
“TIME’s person of the year is Mark Zuckerberg. Sorry Julian Assange, I guess you...”
– Stephen Colbert
November 2010
1 post
5 tags
“Taleb introduces the Hayekian and almost taoistic metaphor of the anti-library:...”
– Bjørn Stærk, Lessons from the anti-library
October 2010
3 posts
“Procrastination most often arises from a sense that there is too much to do, and...”
– Mark Kingwell
September 2010
1 post
2 tags
WatchCruise ship on rough seas
July 2010
2 posts
June 2010
2 posts
Lies We Tell Kids →
There’s never a point where the adults sit you down and explain all the lies they told you. They’ve forgotten most of them. So if you’re going to clear these lies out of your head, you’re going to have to do it yourself.
WatchInspired by Iceland
May 2010
4 posts
“Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is...”
– Albert Einstein (via)
“Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a...”
– Michael Levine (via)
WatchF5 Titles (by Sean McGovern)
April 2010
3 posts
“The destiny of our species is shaped by the imperatives of survival on six...”
– Freeman Dyson – From Eros To Gaia
“I and Somalia against the world. I and my clan against Somalia. I and my family...”
– Somalian proverb
“Believe nothing,
No matter where you read it,
Or who has said it,
Not even if...”
– Buddha
March 2010
2 posts
February 2010
1 post
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be some kind of library.”
– Jorge Luis Borges
January 2010
2 posts
1 tag
Appendix 1[K] →
I have now “liked” a round 1024 things on tumblr; they’re listed taphonomically in the appendix section of this log.
December 2009
4 posts
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and...”
– H.P. Lovecraft (via)
y=e^x (e ta duh x) →
Abstruse Goose comic #218
November 2009
2 posts
WatchSwiss winter wonderland
Watch“NEIL YOUNG” SINGS FRESH PRINCE
October 2009
5 posts
Polar bear plus grizzly equals? →
A new study reveals what happens when a polar bear is crossed with a grizzly.
Death and Pet →
Commentary: Originally I had completely focused on the relationship between the Death guy and the pet, whatever it is. That was…(puts on sunglasses) a dead end. YEEAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!
Leaping Iberian wolf snatches international photo... →
A captivating image of a wolf wins the prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year award.
TSA Successfully Defends Itself →
Story here. Basically, a woman posts a horrible story of how she was mistreated by the TSA, and the TSA responds by releasing the video showing that she was lying. There was a similar story in 2007. Then, I [Schneier] wrote:
Why is it that we all — myself included — believe these stories? Why are we so quick to assume that the TSA is a bunch of jack-booted thugs, officious and...
Saturn at equinox →
Checking in with NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, our current emissary to Saturn, some 1.5 billion kilometers (932 million miles) distant from Earth, we find it recently gathering images of the Saturnian…
August 2009
5 posts
WatchVortex smoke ring collision