Daily Meh

2009

December
October 68
August 61
July 46
June 68
May 101
April 101
March 54
January 88

2008

June 62
May 55
April 70
March 77
February 108
January 206

2007

December 254
November 169
October 150
September 200
August 12
July
June
May
April
March
February
January
“Modern art is a waste of time. When the zombies show up, you...”
— Kelly Link, Some Zombie...
Oct 1st
By Klængur Gunnarsson.
Sep 30th
What is it like to be a bat?
Sep 30th
Conscientious: I thought it would be cool to allow the...
Sep 29th
A genuinely pants-pocketable book! About 15 cm ×...
Sep 29th
The Luminist
Sep 28th

Crewdson, Beneath the Roses

(This post contains lots and lots of images, so you’d be missing out if you read it in the...
Sep 28th
Oklo: Natural Nuclear Reactors
Sep 28th
Awesome. Theo Jansen has a great concept: Since 1990 I...
Sep 27th
The Search. (via binky the doormat) I no longer read xkcd...
Sep 27th
The Etymological Fallacy is the error of assuming that the current meaning of a word is necessarily...
Sep 27th
Two bodies shielding each other from ultramundane...
Sep 26th
“Some lose all mind and become soul, insane. Some lose all...”
— Charles Bukowski.
Sep 26th

Metaethics, a relatively short intro

(This post contains jargon, which I’ve tried to explain as we go along, but it can probably be...
Sep 25th
More hits than you can shake a stick at
Sep 24th
“It’s a common misperception that for some reason we should...”
— Stephen Elliott.
Sep 24th
This big rainbow showed up right outside my window, I rushed...
Sep 24th

Covering treasure in piles of new...

A while ago, Cursive Buildings wrote: Creating a good blog is like writing a good book that no one...
Sep 23rd
On schizophrenia: “An eleven page chapter from my...
Sep 23rd
Stockholm cash depot hit by helicopter heist
Sep 23rd
Interview with Rebecca Solnit
Sep 22nd
In Quechua, a language of South America, the future is behind us and the past in front of us. And it...
Sep 22nd

Mock us gently

Plato famously imagined utopia to be ruled by philosopher-kings. Though he was democratically...
Sep 20th
Reverse perspective is funky.
Sep 20th
“One cannot fight solitude, one must make a friend of it.”
— Maurizio Montalbini. He would...
Sep 20th
“In 2001, I started graduate school at the University of...”
— The (unintentionally?) subtle...
Sep 19th

The Bloodbath

When I was in second grade, we had a very outdoorsy teacher who loved to take us on day trips into...
Sep 19th
If one feels one could live without writing,...
Sep 19th
Taiping Rebellion
Sep 17th
From Sweden. (previously)
Sep 17th
By Bryan Formhals.
Sep 17th
18th Century and Regency Thieves Cant
Sep 16th
“Are you not ashamed to reserve for yourself only the remnant...”
— Seneca.
Sep 15th
Challenge vs. skill, a chart. (hat tip)
Sep 15th

False Power

I’ve only written one post about the Norwegian elections this year. I think I’m allowed...
Sep 15th
“If you die after selling between 250 million and 700 million...”
— Cynical-C on Norman Borlaug....
Sep 14th
Gravity, by Marek Wykowski.
Sep 13th
The music doesn’t interest me, but I like the...
Sep 12th
I wouldn’t link to this if the title-text wasn’t...
Sep 11th
Psycho, via.
Sep 11th
“Your uncle shot himself in the face because of a dead bird....”
— Scientific Fact #22: There Are...
Sep 11th
“Basically, quantum mechanics is the operating system that...”
— Scott Aaronson.
Sep 11th
“There’s no such thing as perfect writing, just like...”
— The eminently quotable...
Sep 10th
Obligatory clever meta.
Sep 10th
“Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of...”
— Andrew S. Tanenbaum. Rivaling...
Sep 10th
The Gettier Problem
Sep 10th
In the category of smug, self-important morally concerned besserwissers, the amateur-psychologist...
Sep 10th
The jungle at the end of my street.
Sep 9th
Holy Pentecostal Church ‘With God Everything is...
Sep 9th
This is the structure of human hemoglobin, which performs...
Sep 7th
2002 Mecca girls' school fire
Sep 7th
2600 Block of Munster Boulevard, New Orleans, September,...
Sep 6th
Guy Batey. Apparently I really like the melancholy of...
Sep 6th
Entropy of English
Sep 5th
The result of insomnia, a sunrise (I’m the sort of...
Sep 3rd
It ain’t me you’re lookin’ for, babe.
Sep 3rd
Raven paradox
Sep 3rd
Procedurally generated patterns that resemble cities, from...
Sep 2nd

Free advice from an anonymous...

Someone sent me an email through an anonymous remailer telling me how wrong I am about pessimism,...
Sep 2nd
“True, luck may rule over parts of a person’s life and...”
— Haruki Murakami, Lederhosen. ...
Sep 2nd
Language rows between Slovakia and Hungary:...
Sep 1st

The metaphysiconauts

Man, the ancients were great. Listen to this idea: there are only two kinds of things that exist:...
Sep 1st
“One day a student came to Moon and said, “I understand...”
— AI Koans.
Sep 1st
I’ve come to realize there are certain things you...
Aug 31st
American Used Cars, Shimada City, Japan, 2007, by Guido...
Aug 31st