Thursday, January 29, 2004
Reproduced here is the last “Burlesque and Side Degree Specialties, Paraphernalia and Costumes…fraternalism supply” catalog the DeMoulin Bros” which went out of business during the Great Depression.
So catalogue of practical joking items and props designed for Lodge members to play jokes on each other and thereby increase fraternal bonding. Funny.
Thursday, January 29, 2004
John Dewey’s classic work on thought and the mind, now online here.
Thursday, January 29, 2004
Likes the way he speaks. Stick to music M.
Thursday, January 29, 2004
You remember that one don’t you?
‘The ‘Tuskegee Study of untreated syphilis in the Negro male’….was conducted in Macon County, Alabama between 1932 and 1972, and is often associated with the image of monstrous government researchers allowing black patients to suffer from a curable and devastating infection (syphilis), so as to document the natural course [...]
Wednesday, January 28, 2004
White males leave the others for dead - Sydney Morning Herald
According to Murray, the idea that no one culture or tradition can ever be judged objectively superior to another has led to a wilful and quite unjustified “trashing” of Dead White Males.
“In anthologies of literature now, women and black writers are represented out of all [...]
Wednesday, January 28, 2004
“To understand how people handle this bewildering matrix of information and activity spaces typical of modern workspaces requires close attention to the fine grain of interaction. Given the prevalence of multi-tasking and interruption: How do we switch attention from one task to another? How do we maintain control over our multiple inquiries? What do we [...]
Wednesday, January 28, 2004
“A new study from HP Labs shows that the reluctance of individuals to reveal private information (or how much money they would demand to do so), depends on how far they perceive themselves to be from the norm. For example, those who think they are overweight ask a higher price to step on a scale [...]
Wednesday, January 28, 2004
and other things like a water filled balloon hitting the groundand a hammer breaking a bottle . Sounds dull but are actually fascinating.
Wednesday, January 28, 2004
Introduction
We all try to avoid the common fallacies of deductive reasoning that teachers of thinking have helped us to identify. But recent research into the foundations of thinking suggests that some non-deductive fallacies may be more common, more insidious, and easier to fall into. And they result from built-in limitations to everyday thinking patterns about [...]
Wednesday, January 28, 2004
“Tijuana Bibles were pornographic tracts popular in America before the advent of mass-market
full-color glossy wank-fodder such as Playboy.
A typical bible consisted of eight stapled comic-strip frames portraying characters and celebrities
(eg. John Dillinger, Popeye, Disney characters) in wildly sodomistic situations. Many could be
considered grossly racist, sexist, and otherwise wholly “politically incorrect.” Browser discretion is advised.”