Category Archives: philosophy

Pascal vs. Callwood

If Callwood and Pascal had been pre-socratics, all would be either hate or love (respectively)

Some philosophical kisses

The Heidegger kiss: all your kisses are okay, but never as good as before the latinization of Greece.

Yochai Benkler on the End of Universal Rationality

How the myth of wholly self-interested individuals is holding us back

Ray Kurzweil on the Future of GNR

Minority Report + Jaxon X + Skynet = bad news?

Craftmanship in the age of industry

However much skill [the ordinary workman] may have in his fingers and conscientiousness in his mind, he can no longer be regarded as an artist, because his skill is not that of a man making things.

Susan Sontag: why style is important

Why style is the most important element in a work of art

Inconsolata: a nice, new (free!) monospace font

Proving that monospace fonts don’t have to suck

Global survey: the importance of religion in your daily life

Turns out Canadians may be more religious than you suspected, and Americans less so.