Monthly Archives: April 2007
Joe and the Volcano vs. Kierkegaard
Here’s an interesting paper about how Joe vs. the Volcano is an image of Kierkegaard’s flattening theory. It’s actually really good (and short). And just in case you need/want it, here a link to the script.
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From the Horse’s Mouth: CSS Makes No Sense
From an article on A List Apart: “Floats can be equally frustrating. Their seemingly inconsistent behavior circumvents all natural logic.” It’s good to hear an authoritative source say what I’ve been thinking the whole freakin’ time.
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Newspapers and Wikis
The wikipedia has changed the way I read web pages. Because you can edit anything on there, when I read a page and something jumps out at me as wrong, more often than not, I fix it. And now, when I read any other page and I see an error (usually in grammar or spelling–it’s [...]
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The Way Smart People See The Web
Here’s a really interesting article from the Language Log, which is really just an excerpt from a paper by some professors (in linguistics or something? clearly not computer science) talking about how the web ought to work, namely as “a window into the universe of knowledge.” I don’t know what that means (the fact that [...]
The Funniest Thing I’ve Read
Here’s a funny quote from an article I’m reading at work about searching and marketing on the internet: “But when you look at local and mobile working together, with GPS-enabled devices, you have this perfect storm: a convergence of usability, advertising opportunity and technology that makes sense because it makes our lives better.” I don’t [...]
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Why Athiests Bore Me
It seems like I’ve seen a lot of this Sam Harris character cropping up recently. Here’s a Newsweek article about him and Rick Warren in dialogue. Warren makes some dumb points as people unaccustomed to talking with athiests do (he opens the door for the ‘if you were born in Saudi Arabia, do you think [...]
Another Article
Here’s another article by that same guy. He hints at the same things here: [We should] oppose industrial capitalism, not with pabulum about “values,” “compassion,” and “consumerism,” but with formidable economic and historical erudition. Taking the imago Dei as a reality and not as an ideal, [we] propose that work honor our human dignity, not diminish [...]
Alternative to Capitalism?
Jonathan posted an article about the false link of work and virtue within American Capitalistic culture. The original article he linked to (and which I just linked to), is a Books and Culture article about how we’ve baptized the American Work Ethic which has little to nothing to do with the Gospel. Assuming that it [...]
The Way The Medium Works
Most of the writing I’ve been doing recently has been in one of those mini composition books, the ones that are 4.5×3.5. Sadly, I wrote “Feb ’06″ on the cover of it, and I’m barely halfway through its 80 pages. The interesting thing is to notice how the medium I write in affects my poem structure. [...]
Why Popular Music Sucks (or something like that)