Archive for February, 2010

Principle of explosion

Friday, February 19th, 2010

I remember this sort of thing from symbolic logic in college. [Wikipedia]

Playing by the rules

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

I like games with weird and extreme rules. So I’m very interested in this: Central Falls to fire every High School teacher Under threat of losing their jobs if they didn’t go along with extra work for not a lot of extra pay, the Central Falls Teachers’ Union refused Friday morning to accept a reform [...]

More like this please

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

A realization

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

I’m conservative leaning on some things and liberal leaning on other things. But I’m rapidly coming to a point where I’ll vote for anyone who plans to eliminate the budget deficit. 1 I don’t want tax cuts. I don’t want more military spending. I don’t want stimulus of any kind. I want LESS SPENDING, and, [...]

Why the block button was invented

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

I know I’m late to this whole Rands in Repose thing but I have to quote this gem from Rands’ post on story culture: Imagine if Twitter forced you to follow certain people. What if Facebook randomly added folks to your friends list? You know what you’d have? The evening news. Random stories from folks [...]