Market Valuation $72
Market Valuation $72 and falling !! Blogshare is a “fantasy” stock market site based on value of blogs – gawd knows why ?
What, Why & How do we Know ?
Market Valuation $72 and falling !! Blogshare is a “fantasy” stock market site based on value of blogs – gawd knows why ?
Ishmael Community – Blogged earlier that Daniel Quinn’s “Ishmael” trilogy was on my reading list following a recommendation from Peter Senge / Charles Handy via the Peter Drucker Foundation. Picked-up this link from a hit from the highly mystical SohoDojo which I erroneously misread as being connected with Joho. Q. How to explore the non-scientific … Continue reading “Ishmael Community”
Been out of circulation for almost two weeks due to US business trip plus a long weekend in New Orleans. Came back to find a link from Dave Pollard’s blog – thanks for that. Lots of interesting stuff to browse here – particularly noticed several posts on thge “metaphor” thread. Also found a new link … Continue reading “So much to read, so little time.”
The Cost (and Benefit) of Abstraction – This originated with Seb [via Spike] [via Lilia]. I commented on Spike’s blog that least abstraction “necessary” is a good qualification, because we certainly couldn’t do without it – in fact humans succeed because they are evolved to be good at it. The problem is that abstraction is … Continue reading “The Cost (and Benefit) of Abstraction”
Zero-Tolerance equals Zero-Intelligence – Morons in the News [via McGee’s Musings]. Can’t quite see how this Richard Gayle quote get’s to be here [Quote] Oh. What a wonderful Catch-22. A 6 year old is facing expulsion for having a plastic butter spoon in his backback. A spoon he got in the cafeteria and wanted to … Continue reading “Zero-Tolerance equals Zero-Intelligence”
Edward Goldsmith – Spike Hall picked-up on my Dawkins’ Hyper-Rationality article and suggested some similar threads from The Way by Edward Goldsmith. He quotes Chomsky and sounds very close to Pinker in so far as the brain is evolved to think this way.
As I was [here], Did I imagine it or did I just see an episode of the Simpsons featuring the Ayn Rand Child Care Center ?
URL Host Name to IP Address Look-up from IceHouse, via Blogger.PS – Dummy here didn’t know you could ftp direct through any browser – I thought tools like Cute FTP were necessary. Doh!