Links With Your Coffee - Wednesday
- Cectic
- Making Fun of Christians (tip to pedantsareus)
- The Satirical Political Report » Citing His Vietnam Experience, Forrest Gump Declares for President
- Collosal critic reality check needed | The Australian(a review of James Wood's How Fiction Works )
IT is not unusual, post-Foucault, to observe the decline of God as a source of meaning in the West since the Enlightenment and the subsequent diminishment of the power of the Bible. Nor is it unusual to point out that this occurred side by side with the rise of the novel.
- Scientist at Work - David Pritchard - Scientist Studies Whether Hookworms Can Protect Against Allergies - NYTimes.com
In 2004, David Pritchard applied a dressing to his arm that was crawling with pin-size hookworm larvae, like maggots on the surface of meat. He left the wrap on for several days to make sure that the squirming freeloaders would infiltrate his system.
- Counting monkeys tick off yet another 'human' ability - life - 01 July 2008 - New Scientist
- Language Log » Charades does not reveal a universal sentence structure
- Propagated Misattribution about Dostoevsky « A Guy’s Moleskine Notebook
Possibly the best-known quote from the works of Dostoevsky is from The Brothers Karamazov: “If God does not exist, everything is permitted.” The sentence does not appear, nor anything close to it. Nor does it appear in any of the other four Dostoevsky novels whose complete English texts are available online.
- Thirteen Hundred Rats: Fiction: The New Yorker What can I say, I'm a T. C. Boyle fan.
Comments
will someone please explain the cartoon on cectic? i usually love all the cartoons norm posts but i'm not even close to understanding this one...
jill, Well, I'm stumped - I knew the symbol was for a logic gate, so I looked it up, and its a NAND gate: a gate that delivers an output "TRUE" unless all its inputs are "TRUE". Maybe the octopus was trying to give the egg an input?
Cectic comics are usually anti-religious, but the connection escapes me.
Re: The Brothers Karamazov (which I've never read). I was curious what whether web sites dispensing quotes would list this one, I didn't find it, but did find a nice one:
Well, Now I can say oops too.
That's not a NAND gate, its a NOR gate: The output of a NOR gate is true when none of its inputs are true. Now, its meaning is pretty obvious. :)
onegoodmove's favorite chickenhawk gets waterboarded:
http://tinyurl.com/6qtb6k
Funny stuff. This dumb motherfucker lasts about ten seconds. Now he suddenly believes that torture is, in fact, torture. Maybe he should write a book now explaining to all of us what "torture" is.
What actually does "Collosal" mean?
Can someone help a poor, non-Australian pedant, please?
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