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I admit I’m usually not one for poetry; but every once in awhile something strikes me in just the right way. Plus, posting poems is an easy way to keep this blog from going stale while I’m busy. Here is A Psalm of Life, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Tell me not, in mournful numbers, First, have yourself a gander at Mark Farrari’s artwork. To make these, Farrari used only an 8-bit color cycle with HTML 5. Below is a sample of his work (Keep in mind this is just a screenshot; be sure to follow the link, because the actual work moves and changes):
There is [...] This speech was given by Adam Treager; who was speaking on behalf of his graduating class at the University of Minnesota Institute of Technology. You know, I really wish, for your sake and mine that I could stand up here and say “Whew! Glad that’s over! Wow! We’re finally done!” Of course, you know as well [...] I admit I don’t quite know what to make of this survey, in terms of overall trends: I found this via Shaving Leviathan. Those little contradictions in people’s answers probably come - as others have noted - from people misunderstanding what these words and concepts mean. Some of the answers surprised me. For [...] Yes, this is a bit snide, but I like the point of it: I admit feeling a bit of apprehension about “Human-Achievement Hour”; I don’t like waste, and don’t see anything wrong with living “cleaner” or being “green” (so long as it ultimately serves human goals, and living that way is not the result of coercion.) But [...] 1. The Bias Bias. I find it interesting that a fixation on bias can, in the end, produce it’s own kind of bias. 2. Objectivist Roundup #135. Maybe I was too hasty to say that I only had ‘three links.’ Since this link links to a bunch of other links (how [...] Descartes was ‘poisoned by Catholic priest’ For more than three and a half centuries, the death of René Descartes one winter’s day in Stockholm has been attributed to the ravages of pneumonia on a body unused to the Scandinavian chill. But in a book released after years spent combing the archives of Paris and the Swedish [...] I hang out with a lot of different groups representing great differences in political and philosophical positions; and I can tell you, trying to penetrate the lingo barriers can be difficult. Every group has their own words and phrases it likes to use; and their own definition of these words used [...] Scientists say dolphins should be treated as non-human persons: (PhysOrg.com) — Scientists studying dolphin behavior have suggested they could be the most intelligent creatures on Earth after humans, saying the size of their brains in relation to body size is larger than that of our closest relatives, the chimpanzees, and their behaviors suggest complex intelligence. One [...] David Brooks has written a wonderful little article talking about the various successes of Jewish culture. I think it is a fantastic example of how ideas can affect achievement and economic prosperity in a society: Jews are a famously accomplished group. They make up 0.2 percent of the world population, but 54 percent of the world [...] |
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