Tuesdays Children

[PicassoCT]

The usuall harvest, ripped from pearldiver.com (http://www.signandsight.com/features/2111.html) If you want to read the full original.

http://www.rue89.com/entretien/2010/11/ ... eau-178081

Interesting stuff on europes demographic development, lacking the usual Do-panic sound (French).

http://www.lepoint.fr/culture/polemique ... 7533_3.php

Hillarity ensues, young lawyer takes a book from a famous author, who admitted that he copy&pasted lots of stuff from wikipedia- and declared that (wikis going under gpl) this infected the book and made it in fact a comon license product - basically uploading the novell. Yohoo, a pirate is free, you are a pirat. (French, again, sorry for the nonspeakers, but sometimes the most intersting things happen in zwzsg-country.)

http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/ ... icle/9924/
What happens when you avoid the bodyscanner? You gonna get grabbed.

http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2010/ ... sm-review/

Its about a german debatte, raging on now for quite some time. I avoided the wikileaks stuff, its just a paperbin and until now they found nothing in it, that wasnt already known, or could easily be guessed through reading the diplomatic news.

One last, but not least:
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v32/n23/sheila-fit ... e-archives

A nice look back on the paranoia in the sovjet union.

[KaiserJ]

I spent my whole time in Moscow sitting on hard wooden chairs

do they not have cushions in russia

[PicassoCT]

In sovjet union, cushion was bannished because of aristocrats using them. The working class has no cushions, therefore the partys ass does not need a cushion.

You do not want to act counter-revolutionary, comrad KaiserJ? Cushions would endanger the 4 year plan, and the feathers and cottonwool for them is needed for jittering wladiwostocks-children and guncotton, to protect us against the capiTalisMan. You do not want to endanger our progress? Others have questioned our wise leadership before, and they have been teached how to better themselves, by choppin wood in sibiria.

[Panda]

In sovjet union, cushion was bannished because of aristocrats using them. The working class has no cushions, therefore the partys ass does not need a cushion.

You do not want to act counter-revolutionary, comrad KaiserJ? Cushions would endanger the 4 year plan, and the feathers and cottonwool for them is needed for jittering wladiwostocks-children and guncotton, to protect us against the capiTalisMan. You do not want to endanger our progress? Others have questioned our wise leadership before, and they have been teached how to better themselves, by choppin wood in sibiria.

So, what would the message to the world be in this movement?

http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/ ... icle/9924/
What happens when you avoid the bodyscanner? You gonna get grabbed.

I don't like the body scanners all that much either. Luckily, I don't work in an airport or travel that frequently by plane. People could develop cancer with too many X-rays.

When I was in an airport one time, there was a bomb threat and the airport went on high alert. Smoth and I were in the airport for 12 hours and everyone had to get a pat down, but the lady security officer who gave me a pat down was as professional as emergency rescue personnel and I could understand the scare, so it didn't really bother me. They weren't doing butt checks or anything either.

[PicassoCT]

I dont think makes much sense to search the passengers, what you need is a completely seperate cockpit (pilots can only enter on the ground)

[PicassoCT]

http://www.agenceglobal.com/Article.asp?Id=2447

Latecomer to the articlequue

[zwzsg]

I hate the word "falsifiable". They should use "refutable".

[PicassoCT]

I wouldnt have posted the last article if it hadnt (in my conclusion) some strong points.

[Panda]

It seems like a good read.

[PicassoCT]

Next Generation of Tuesdayians:

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/op ... t-1.328500

Reality as in the cables vs. the reality as in the news.

http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2010-1 ... er-en.html

wikileaks, and bedwetting is not its only problem. Just kidden, its about journalism

http://www.economist.com/node/17626874

Penron. Best Cosmic model or best cosmic model evar?

http://www.nzzfolio.ch/www/21b625ad-36b ... 61740.aspx

NZZ Portfolio, one of the best submagazines of one of the best european newspapers. And its in German only, sorry. Topic is behaviour, and when it gets rituals, and when sick.

http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom ... t-deserves

Im so sick of lickypeaks. BOOOOORING.


Somethin uplifting for the last post:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/de ... rt-darnton
Forbidden Songs in old France under the king. /b/ was there.

[PicassoCT]

Well, it occurs repeatedly, you could say every week its , a part of it, beginns with T, imagine the list, like Mon, *****, Wednes, Thurs, Fri-
Oh, come on, its not that difficult, not a single one.

Its Tuesday, well, got to award myself:

Looks like the Wiki is still leaking, somebody got fix this, call the E-Plumber, ahem the Admin, the Expert responsible, no wait, we cant even trust our own experts, who we need for our hitec warfare. Nuke took away there total wars, internet nerds took away there blackops, its no longer fun to be a psychotic political falcon.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/201 ... ve-updates

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/201 ... ve-updates

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/201 ... ve-updates

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/201 ... ve-updates

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/12/ ... ks.amazon/

Student protests in London, AF on rampage to blame?
http://www.newstatesman.com/uk-politics ... s-movement
New Yorker on the Legend of Gamedesign: If you dont know him, you wont show thy dim.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/201 ... paumgarten

Interesting Essay, on how every new media technology leads after a wild west period towards overstable monopols who, in paraonia stall technologys. Most interesting example: Did you know that the bell labs supressed there own invention, the magnetic tape in the 30┬┤s because they were afraid people wouldnt phone anymore?

http://www.salon.com/books/what_to_rea ... ter_switch


TheNation on Comandowarfare in Pakistan:
http://www.thenation.com/article/secret-us-war-pakistan
BlackOps in my Ally. Noway.


Z, nightly avenger of supressed genitalia, i see what you did there.
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/12/13/gi ... p-cir.html

Thats it.

[PicassoCT]

Coments so far?

[FireStorm_]

I imagine you read a lot faster then I do. (haven't read everything yet)

Fake cables being leaked was something bound to happen although I hadn't thought of it before I read it.

And a bold way to compete with the Eiffel tower like that.

Edit:

under cover as aid workers

Probably to feel like, or pretend to be, a real hero for a little while.

[PicassoCT]

They errected something to last for generations to cum.

Latecumer...
http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdail ... lling.html

[FireStorm_]

Homo unius libri

[Aquinas's] words are generally quoted today in disparagement of the man whose mental horizons are limited to one book.

Seems logical to me the same goes for games.

[PicassoCT]

http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/12/ ... n-atheist/

Its almost tuesday... Have some snacks while waiting...

[PicassoCT]

http://chronicle.com/article/Why-WikiLe ... for/125628
Wikleek
http://www.tnr.com/blog/john-mcwhorter/ ... ut-in-2010
Languages to learn
http://www.tnr.com/article/magazine/797 ... Tk1NGE4NzM
Tell me which philosophers you whoreship, and i tell you what politicals system you live in.

http://www.salon.com/books/fiction/inde ... ce_fiction
ScifFi Dead? Time Travell to much?

Me is tired.

[zwzsg]

http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/12/ ... n-atheist/

Its almost tuesday... Have some snacks while waiting...

Well, nearly. 75 percent of Americans are God-┬¡ÔÇÉfearing Christians; 75 percent of prisoners are God-┬¡ÔÇÉfearing Christians. 10 percent of Americans are atheists; 0.2 percent of prisoners are atheists.

I shall note that down.

[FireStorm_]

1)

http://chronicle.com/article/Why-WikiLe ... for/125628
Wikleek

I don't fully agree with the conclusion. It seems to say that the events surrounding cablegate, will incite more secretive behaviour.

To me that's like saying that someone you have absolutely no knowledge about, recently has become even more elusive. Which to me isn't really saying anything at all.

weird analogies:
Zero plus zero is not double zero, or some higher form of zero; no, it's just zero.
Or: how can you measure something you can't perceive in any way, anyway?

2)
I think this...

http://www.tnr.com/blog/john-mcwhorter/ ... ut-in-2010
Languages to learn

...has a lot to do with this:

Here is a article, i read today, and it changed my mind on how language (who i thought was pretty unimportant in shapping your thinking, otherwise no globalisation) works out:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/magaz ... wanted=all

(And I think the first issue of Picasso's Tuesdays Children was of course the Compost Heap )

I think it not all that important which language to teach as long is it is more than one. An extra language can give an extra perspective, which is potentially beneficial to the philosophical mind.

3)

http://www.tnr.com/article/magazine/797 ... Tk1NGE4NzM
Tell me which philosophers you whoreship, and i tell you what politicals system you live in.

I can't really can't deicide on one or another. Well what system do I live in?

4)
I find that when I walk to the "SciFi and Fantasy" section in a commercial book store, there is actually no scifi (sometimes they have some Dune and the Hitchhikers guide, but that's about it.) Perhaps in that sense SciFi is dying a little.

Luckily I can get my books elsewhere.

@ zwzsg
The other day I also heard myself repeating those statistics in conversation.

@ Picasso
tanks again for some interesting reads

[PicassoCT]

I usually avoid, this and that one died posts and essays, and the revival of his worx attempts for the 50th anniversary and the 100th and so on. If something is relevant, and good, its gonna get passe on from generation to generation, reappearing as reference in new works.

But this guy is worth a exception.
http://www.ted.com/talks/denis_dutton_a ... witter.com
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/n ... utton.html
In grief for great things unfinnished.