The content of political ads in the U.S. is very, very loosely regulated. Unlike every other sort of advertisement, political candidates can (at least in most circumstances) make blatantly false or misleading statements with blanket immunity in the name of […]
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Modern Dragons, Now With 20% More Umlauts
CHiLLi.cc, an Austrian youth magazine, is running a short article on Citizendium written by yours truly! You can check it out in its original English form or the German translation. It’s a good summary of the differences between Citizendium and […]
Quote of the Week: April 22
I’m going to make a strong statement– I think Ray Kurzweil’s “The Singularity is Near” was probably the most important book written in 2005. If you’re at all curious about what sorts of- and what degree of- technology the future […]
Quote of the Week: April 15
Ask a scientist what he conceives the scientific method to be and he adopts an expression that is at once solemn and shifty-eyed: solemn, because he feels he ought to declare an opinion; shifty-eyed because he is wondering how to […]
Quote of the Week: April 8
Sherlock Holmes in A Study in Scarlet (via John Hawks): “You see,” he explained, “I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A […]
Quote of the Week: April 1
Netvibes recently opened a San Francisco office, and Mr. Krim acknowledged that he was fond of the Silicon Valley culture in which everyone seems to live and breathe computing and technology. “I miss the fact you can start an interesting […]
Quote of the Week: March 25
In his classic A Mathematicians Apology, published 65 years ago, the great mathematician G. H. Hardy wrote that “A man who sets out to justify his existence and his activities” has only one real defense, namely that “I do what […]
Quote of the Week: March 18
This week’s quote goes out to Mike Kaplan: If you work your way down the Forbes 400 making an x next to the name of each person with an MBA, you’ll learn something important about business school. You don’t even […]
Quote of the Week: March 11
Rod Humble, Executive Producer of The Sims franchise (and a past acquaintance), on how he plans to expand the video game market: I don’t know if there’s any fixed lifecycle for the Sims franchise because I think that it can […]
Hiatus
All, I’m once again blogging after nearly five months; I apologize to my readers for the hiatus. A combination of things conspired to keep me away- after my last post, I was invited to join the Citizendium Executive Committee, my […]