Electronic text, but not actual usable e-books.

"In 1969, George Spencer-Brown published a mathematical book called Laws of Form, which has inspired explorations in philosophy, cybernetics, art, spirituality, and computation. The work is powerful and has established a passionate following as well as harsh critics. This web site explores these people, their ideas and history, and provides references for further exploration."

Worth it for the lazy evaluation joke.

A wonderful piece of writing on software. Pylons and the whole WSGI pluggable modulels thing has been a siren song to me, but no more. Convention can be frustrating, but it has its place.

makes me proud to call myself a secular humanist (when pressed)

a reborn cosmopolitanism as enabler of constructive dialog in a world of airy relativists and totalist liberals