April 2008
130 posts
How to Disagree →
Graham organizes disagreement into 7 levels, with DH6 the strongest, DH0 the shittiest.
DHO. Name-calling
DH1. Ad Hominem.
DH2. Responding to Tone
DH3. Contradiction
DH4. Counterargument
DH5. Refutation
DH6. Refuting the Central Point
A simple, useful system. If more people were aware of the quality of their comments, the web would have a lot less crap.
WatchBjörk - Wanderlust
March 2008
110 posts
Incompetent People Really Have No Clue →
There are many incompetent people in the world. Dr. David A. Dunning is haunted by the fear that he might be one of them.
Dunning, a professor of psychology at Cornell, worries about this because, according to his research, most incompetent people do not know that they are incompetent.
On the contrary. People who do things badly, Dunning has found in studies conducted with a graduate...
A Victim Treats His Mugger Right →
“As the teen began to walk away, Diaz told him, ‘Hey, wait a minute. You forgot something. If you’re going to be robbing people for the rest of the night, you might as well take my coat to keep you warm.’”
Kottke.org
The Economics of "Green"
I frequently visit the BackpackingLight Forums and recently got into an interesting discussion. Only my first response will be posted here; go to the thread if you’d like to read the rest.
This is an interesting article. Thanks for pointing it out.
I agree with many of your sentiments.
I can imagine the logic of the Sierra Club.
This new product is far from perfect, but it’s...
The Navy Federal Credit Union has embraced green... →
“You’ve been asking for data,” Ebbesen says to me. “Well, we definitely have energy savings: we’ve had one study that said 25 percent and another that said 40 percent. We pay a lot of attention to the energy model because we want to be efficient, because that leads to less pollution. But that’s not where the savings are. The savings are all related to...
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No Resistance Is Futile →
A brilliant article from Paul Ford1 positing that some “resistance in the materials”is just what “the most malleable medium in human history.”
You know, the guy who reviewed 763 songs with six words apiece. ↩
Big Boi feat. Andre 3000 and Raekwon -...
WatchA talk on creating biological molecules from digital information, with one immediate goal being the creation of organisms which rapidly convert CO₂ into “4th Generation Fuels.”
WatchJake and Amir - March Madness
Time Signatures And The Universe - Pt. 2
bunnynico:
I really enjoyed reading this response to my post. As soon as I posted it, I wondered whether it would be interpreted as a rebuff to someone who was willing to push the envelope with music and try something new. If it weren’t for composers making a deliberate decision to push the envelope, we may never have had a Mozart (who often fit as many notes as he could in each and...
Watchiminlikewithyou:
Staying Alive (1983) is the sequel to Saturday Night Fever, Directed by Sylvester Stallone. It features a full score by his 35 year old looking brother / pop heartthrob Frank Stallone.
I’ve seen this movie a few times during depressive bouts of VH1 watching, but I had no idea it was directed by Stallone with music by his brother. I mean… wow.
Time Signatures And The Universe.
Jesse brought up Charles Ives, and it got me all excited.
Charles Ives is an idol of mine for many reasons. He was at once rooted in American traditions — town-square band music, protestant hymns, folk music, popular songs — and the American avant-garde.1 Of particular interest to me are his unusual uses of time (the focus of Jesse’s post), obsession with tone clusters, and...
Transcript of Obama's speech on race →
