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Category Archives: Oddments
Stephen Fry on arguments between cousins
My previous post on winning arguments unfairly reminded me of a blog posting by the actor, writer, wit, and all-around bon vivant Stephen Fry. In this post, (scroll down to “Getting Overheated”) Fry discusses how Englishers and Americans differ when having an argument. While he and his fellow Englishmen love a good hearty tussle of …
Winning Arguments (Unfairly)
The following notes are from a 1982 book by Daniel Cohen called “Re:thinking: How to Succeed by Learning How to Think.” (Bookfinder link — this book is WAY old, people!) It struck me at the time I read it, sometime in the mid-90’s, as a coherent summary of the mind literature extant in 1982 for …
Snarky Facebook e-cards
someecards have a wonderfully snarky, face-slapping, aphoristic intensity to their e-card messages. They don’t always work and aren’t always funny, but the classically lined clip art helps, and when their one-liners do connect, I smile and nod in admiration. What got my attention today were their terribly well-directed Facebook slams.
As within, so without
When my mind and life get cluttered, so do my physical environments. When I lived on my own, it was the whole apartment. Now, it’s pretty much confined to my home office. But as I celebrate the end of the semester and contemplate what to do with myself this summer, I scan the office and …
Left-brain, definitely
A perception test from an Australian newspaper. For the life of me, I can’t see her turning clockwise. I don’t “get it” — which is a right-brain trait, I see.
Links 2008-02-03
1. Tyler is unhappy with the new Fairfax City Public Library in Virginia. 2. Was the problem the laptops or how they were not integrated into the curriculum? (via Lifemuncher) 3. “The Place for Web 2.0 Refugees” 4. Handwriting vs typing
Emails as a Game of Life?
Academic Productivity has another great post, this time on the work of Carolin Horn at the Dynamic Media Institute at the Massachusetts College of Art (a visual designer, BTW, not an information visualization specialist) and her coder Florian Jenett. Using her Apple inbox as her petrie dish, her web page contains wonderful animations of species …
Doomsday is Friday
For 2008, that is. Here’s Wikipedia on the Doomsday rule: The Doomsday rule or Doomsday algorithm is a way of calculating the day of the week of a given date. It provides a perpetual calendar since the Gregorian calendar moves in cycles of 400 years.
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