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Month: March, 2008

Awesome

Carry On Wayward Son Will Ferrell and Dave Grohl

Affirmation

I love articles that agree with my opinions: [H]ousing is not an investment. It’s shelter. That is all housing has ever been. To clarify a bit, since Seth called me on this: Don’t buy a house as an investment. Buy a house because you want to own a house.

You’re Not Good At Math

Paul Lockhart wrote a fine indictment of math (and, by extension, science) education: By concentrating on what, and leaving out why, mathematics is reduced to an empty shell. The art is not in the “truth” but in the explanation, the argument. It is the argument itself which gives the truth its context, and determines what [...]

For Real?

April 18 is Poop For Peace Day: Side by side in a public bathroom, any two human beings are stripped of their differences and reduced to their most basic essence: a pair of feet sticking out below the stall, and a pair of butt trumpets performing a greasy symphony to lament humanity’s non-negotiable deference to [...]

Oh To Be A Teenager

Penny Arcade has a comic commemorating Gary Gygax today. Give yourself five points if you don’t know who Gary Gygax is. Give yourself five more points if you don’t understand the comic’s caption.

Score Another For The Home Team

Marc Andreessen makes his case for Barack Obama: What about foreign policy — should we be concerned that you just don’t have much experience there? Think about who I am — my father was Kenyan; I have close relatives in a small rural village in Kenya to this day; and I spent several years of [...]