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“Modern art is a waste of time. When the zombies show up, you...”
— Kelly Link, Some Zombie...

By Klængur Gunnarsson.

What is it like to be a bat?

Conscientious: I thought it would be cool to allow the...

A genuinely pants-pocketable book! About 15 cm ×...

Crewdson, Beneath the Roses

(This post contains lots and lots of images, so you’d be missing out if you read it in the...

Oklo: Natural Nuclear Reactors

Awesome. Theo Jansen has a great concept: Since 1990 I...

The Search. (via binky the doormat) I no longer read xkcd...

The Etymological Fallacy is the error of assuming that the current meaning of a word is necessarily...

Two bodies shielding each other from ultramundane...

“Some lose all mind and become soul, insane. Some lose all...”
— Charles Bukowski.

Metaethics, a relatively short intro

(This post contains jargon, which I’ve tried to explain as we go along, but it can probably be...

More hits than you can shake a stick at

“It’s a common misperception that for some reason we should...”
— Stephen Elliott.

This big rainbow showed up right outside my window, I rushed...

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...

On schizophrenia: “An eleven page chapter from my...

Stockholm cash depot hit by helicopter heist

Interview with Rebecca Solnit

In Quechua, a language of South America, the future is behind us and the past in front of us. And it...

Mock us gently

Plato famously imagined utopia to be ruled by philosopher-kings. Though he was democratically...

Reverse perspective is funky.

“One cannot fight solitude, one must make a friend of it.”
— Maurizio Montalbini. He would...

“In 2001, I started graduate school at the University of...”
— The (unintentionally?) subtle...

The Bloodbath

When I was in second grade, we had a very outdoorsy teacher who loved to take us on day trips into...

If one feels one could live without writing,...

Taiping Rebellion

From Sweden. (previously)

By Bryan Formhals.

18th Century and Regency Thieves Cant

“Are you not ashamed to reserve for yourself only the remnant...”
— Seneca.

Challenge vs. skill, a chart. (hat tip)

False Power

I’ve only written one post about the Norwegian elections this year. I think I’m allowed...

“If you die after selling between 250 million and 700 million...”
— Cynical-C on Norman Borlaug....

Gravity, by Marek Wykowski.

The music doesn’t interest me, but I like the...

I wouldn’t link to this if the title-text wasn’t...

“Your uncle shot himself in the face because of a dead bird....”
— Scientific Fact #22: There Are...

“Basically, quantum mechanics is the operating system that...”
— Scott Aaronson.

“There’s no such thing as perfect writing, just like...”
— The eminently quotable...

Obligatory clever meta.

“Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of...”
— Andrew S. Tanenbaum. Rivaling...

The Gettier Problem

In the category of smug, self-important morally concerned besserwissers, the amateur-psychologist...

The jungle at the end of my street.

Holy Pentecostal Church ‘With God Everything is...

This is the structure of human hemoglobin, which performs...

2002 Mecca girls' school fire

2600 Block of Munster Boulevard, New Orleans, September,...

Guy Batey. Apparently I really like the melancholy of...

Entropy of English

The result of insomnia, a sunrise (I’m the sort of...

It ain’t me you’re lookin’ for, babe.

Procedurally generated patterns that resemble cities, from...

Free advice from an anonymous...

Someone sent me an email through an anonymous remailer telling me how wrong I am about pessimism,...

“True, luck may rule over parts of a person’s life and...”
— Haruki Murakami, Lederhosen. ...

Language rows between Slovakia and Hungary:...

The metaphysiconauts

Man, the ancients were great. Listen to this idea: there are only two kinds of things that exist:...

“One day a student came to Moon and said, “I understand...”
— AI Koans.

I’ve come to realize there are certain things you...

American Used Cars, Shimada City, Japan, 2007, by Guido...