A valiant stand on science and religion

by Luke Rodgers on April 3, 2011

Eventually, someone, somewhere had to stand up for a politician’s right to ignorance.
I for one applaud Canada’s federal Minister of State for Science and Technology, Gary Goodyear for refusing to answer reporters questions regarding his belief in evolution. Such conversations are (…)

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Hegel gets colloquial

by Luke Rodgers on March 24, 2011

From page 1174-5, Volume 2 of the Aesthetics, translated by T.M. Knox.
“If a book does not please me, I can lay it aside, just as I can pass by pictures or statues that are not to my taste, and in (…)

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A Heidegger Poem??

by Luke Rodgers on November 27, 2010

who knew equipmentality was so lyrical

Some Philosophical Chuck Norris Facts

by Luke Rodgers on November 25, 2010

(The original)
Chuck Norris can imagine a chiliagon.
Chuck Norris has intellectual intuition.
Chuck Norris threatened Alexandre Kojeve into conceding that history wasn’t over until Chuck Norris said it was.
After watching one episode of Walker: Texas Ranger, Nietzsche changed his concept of “the (…)

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Nelly vs. Lynyrd Skynyrd

by Luke Rodgers on November 23, 2010

one of my favourite mashups

Epic Castoriadis run-on sentence

by Luke Rodgers on October 19, 2010

Currently reading Castoriadis’ The Imaginary Institution of Society. The man likes his run-on sentences, as evidenced below. Semi-colons do little to mitigate the sense of being overwhelmed by the piling-up of explications.
The image is therefore a symbol here — but (…)

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How does your website fare on text resize?

by Luke Rodgers on August 28, 2010

In the age of page zoom being the default way browsers allow users to increase the size of content on a webpage (standard on most browsers for a while, and on IE since version 7), it can be easy to (…)

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Disappointing

by Luke Rodgers on July 25, 2010

Vin Diesel is not in the same league as Arnie