February 2012
3 posts
“… the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our...”
– Umberto Eco (via nevver)
Ну что ж
Воротишься на родину. Ну что ж.
Гляди вокруг, кому еще ты нужен,
кому теперь в друзья ты попадешь?
Воротишься, купи себе на ужин
какого-нибудь сладкого вина,
смотри в окно и думай понемногу:
во всем твоя одна, твоя вина,
и хорошо. Спасибо. Слава Богу.
Как хорошо, что некого винить,
как хорошо, что ты никем не связан,
как хорошо, что до смерти любить
тебя никто на свете не обязан.
Как хорошо,...
January 2012
3 posts
December 2011
6 posts
November 2011
2 posts
October 2011
4 posts
“There are three species of creatures who when they seem coming are going, When...”
– “Distich” | Futility Closet
“A party of white men and Indians were amusing themselves after the day’s...”
– Argumentics: Everything doth not hit alike upon every man’s imagination
September 2011
5 posts
Great argument against intellectual property. →
August 2011
2 posts
Watch
God is dead
“God is dead. Marx is dead. And I don’t feel so well myself.” – Eugene Ionesco
July 2011
8 posts
Dear Human... →
Dear human, welcome to the club!
Rap Translated from Blackness →
Modern rhetoric.
June 2011
7 posts
The Maginot Line
The Maginot Line (French: Ligne Maginot, IPA: [liɲ maʒino]), named after French Minister of War André Maginot, was a line of concrete fortifications, tank obstacles, artillery casemates, machine gun posts, and other defences, which France constructed along its borders with Germany and Italy, in light of its experience in World War I, and in the run-up to World War II. Generally the term describes...
May 2011
10 posts
Расселл и папа римский
Один философ испытал сильнейшее потрясение, узнав от Бертрана Расселла, что из ложного утверждения следует любое утверждение. Он спросил: “Вы всерьез считаете, что из утверждения “два плюс два - пять” следует, что вы папа римский?” Расселл ответил утвердительно. “И вы можете доказать это?” - продолжал сомневаться философ. “Конечно!” - ...
Furry Testimony | Futility Closet →
As the lower animals were anciently amenable to law in Switzerland, so, in peculiar circumstances, they could be received as witnesses. A similar law, it appears, is still, or was to a very late period, recognised in Savoy. If a man’s house was broken into between sunset and sunrise, and the owner of the house killed the intruder, the act was considered a justifiable homicide. But it was...
A Nice Example Of The Pitfalls of Hypothesis... →
Consider the following syllogism:
If a person is an American, he is probably not a member of Congress.
This person is a member of Congress.
Therefore he is probably not American.
As John D. Cook writes:
We can’t reject a null hypothesis just because we’ve seen data that are rare under this hypothesis. Maybe our data are even more rare under the alternative. It is rare for an American to be...
Oh | Futility Closet →
A traveler in the Southern mountains saw an old man sitting at a cabin door and asked: ‘Have you lived here all your life?’
‘Not yet,’ was the reply.
– Ralph Louis Woods, Modern Handbook of Humor, 1967