So… your university wants to close some (humanities) department?
Well, one university did and someone wrote a nice open letter to the president of it. It's worth reading. Bonus points if you can spot the etymological fallacy in it.…
Norman Swartz and Raymond Bradley’s Possible Worlds finally available
It has taken some time but now it is available for free on the net. You can find it right here.
Heinlein on time travel
"[speaking of going back in time] I'd particularly like to go back to my own childhood, see if things look as I recall them." Ira blinked. "Run a chance of…
Quote: Heinlein “Time Enough for Love”
"If I must wait a thousand years to understand that word," Hamadryad replied, "then I probably never will. Minerva says that it cannot be defined in Galacta and even when…
Status
Some of you may have noticed that I have removed the links from the blogs and moved them to the front page. I am in the middle of major overhaul…
Less activity
This is not because I am not actively writing anything. It is because I am working on a very large (for me) project - a reform proposal to the danish…
Link: Why Norwegian is the easiest language for English speakers to learn
http://www.pagef30.com/2008/08/why-norwegian-is-easiest-language-for.html Actually a very good read.
Worth reading: The Streisand Effect
Thanks to TorrentFreak for enlightening me. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
Quote from SEP on Pornography and Censorship
Link to article on SEP. Consider the following quote: "The term "pornography" is used in all of these different ways in everyday discourse and debate, as well as in philosophical…