Tag: Miscellanea

  • Logical Fallacies: The Fallacy Files

    Everyone should take at least a quick tour through this site: Logical Fallacies: The Fallacy Files. We all need a logical check-up, from time to time.

  • The Zo’é People

    I saw a show, last night, that reminded me why I would make a very poor cultural anthropologist. It was about the Zo’é people, also known as the Poturu, a tribe of about 160 in Brazil, near the headwaters of some Amazon River tributaries. They were unknown in the West until 1987.

  • New Feature: Current Reading and Listening

    I have added a fun new feature: on certain pages (the home page, Music page, EdBlog, and books section), my current and most recent reading and listening selections will appear on the left side. I have always thought this was a cool feature on other sites, because it’s (a) interesting to see what makes people…

  • Cool Meta Tag and the Most Concise Blog, Ever

    Found in the Whois Source website code: <meta name=”jedi-mind-trick” content=”You will bookmark this site and use it a lot.”></meta> John Graham Cumming‘s blog (the one and only entry): Blog May 26, 2005: I don’t have one; I don’t have the time

  • Why Isn’t Sean O’Keefe Unemployed?

    I would like to know why NASA Administrator Sean O’Keefe still has a job. For that matter, I’d like to know why no charges are pending against him or anyone under his authority. Fully a year after Columbia’s disintegration over Texas – a series of mistakes and arrogant inactions that cost the lives of seven…