August 24th, 2005

In brief: scientific illiteracy in the U.S. is a model for the world! Leiter Reports  

Man, I love duck fat. MeatHenge  

But while broadcast media operated on a tacit agreement between the producer and audience that the content would be free in exchange for the audience being exposed to ads, it looks like a new tacit agreement is emerging online, the content is free in exchange for the data to mine. Abstract Dynamics  

And, as always, the least valuable assets are being discarded first, meaning women’s rights in the Iraq are bound for the bottom of the scrap heap. Sic transit gloria Shrub. Whiskey Bar  

After a weekend’s reading of “Phenomenology of Spirit”, and having been out-drunk by David Hume, I can now state categorically that Georg Wilheim Friedrich Hegel, perhaps one of Europe’s greatest thinkers, knew fuck-all about RSS. Ben Hammersley’s Dangerous Precedent