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Is God a Taoist?
A dialogue from The Tao Is Silent, by Raymond M. Smullyan
philosophy  tao  god  by:smullyan  from instapaper
11 days ago
The Rise of the New Groupthink - NYTimes.com
solitude  creativity  from instapaper
january 2012
Nature vs. Nurture: It doesn’t matter.
The author argues that "gay is no choice" is not very good argument.
sexuality  equality  from instapaper
november 2011
How the GOP Became the Party of the Rich | Politics News | Rolling Stone
The Republican ideology used to be about keeping tight financial discipline and keeping the government small. Nowadays the GOP is all about making the rich richer.

The man behind this change, Grover Nordqvist, goes on to equate taxation with theft
finance  usa  budget  GOP  conservative  taxes  from instapaper
november 2011
The 1% are the very best destroyers of wealth the world has ever seen | George Monbiot | Comment is free | The Guardian
finance  equality  distribution  from instapaper
november 2011
Don’t Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice | Kalzumeus Software
Lucid, honest/cynical description of what matters in programmer's career.
programming  business  career  from instapaper
october 2011
Wall Street Isn't Winning - It's Cheating
Matt Taibbi argues that people aren't protesting because they're envious of the riches of the Wall Street bankers: par contre, Americans love the rich.

Instead they complain, because they feel that Wall Street isn't playing fairly. People's homes are foreclosed and they're going to jail, whereas when the banks and the bankers do reckless mistakes or even outright crimes, they're getting bailed out and paid out.
politics  ows  finance  wallstreet  banking  from instapaper
october 2011
On the Movie Set of Director Ilya Khrzhanovsky's Dau: Movies + TV: GQ
A Russian director builds a city and makes people live in it like its 1952. Surreal.
movie  landau  from instapaper
october 2011
Noam Chomsky: What Makes Mainstream Media Mainstream
Chomsky claims that mainstream media is used to control the opinions of masses. It's not because of some secret conspiracy, but because of the socialization. If what you say is too far away from the mainstream, people think you're improper and you won't get into very high positions. Over the years different members of oligarchy have managed to engineer the mainstream views to support the oligarchy.
chomsky  media  propaganda  democracy  essay  from instapaper
october 2011
Paul Buchheit: I am nothing
When you come back, read this.
inspiration  from instapaper
august 2011
Denouement: David Foster Wallace-Kenyon Commencement Speech 2005
Quote: There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says "Morning, boys. How's the water?" And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes "What the hell is water?"
dfw  speech  inspiration  from instapaper
august 2011
the collected jwz bicycle wisdom
bicycle  commuting  from instapaper
august 2011
How to seem good at everything: Stop doing stupid shit - Josh's Posterous
productivity  inspiration  quality  from instapaper
august 2011
danah boyd | apophenia » “Real Names” Policies Are an Abuse of Power
anonymity  socialmedia  from instapaper
august 2011
How to Reprogram Your Brain: 4 Paths to More Willpower in 2011
willpower  from instapaper
july 2011
Zen, Skill Development, and The Inner Game Of Tennis (This Post Is Not About Tennis) — ZacharyBurt.com
Book review and summary of The Inner Game of Tennis
training  learning  from instapaper
july 2011
How to Become a Great Finisher - Heidi Grant Halvorson - Harvard Business Review
productivity  from instapaper
june 2011
Postmodernism Disrobed - Richard Dawkins, Nature - RichardDawkins.net
postmodernism  science  sociology  from instapaper
june 2011
A List Apart: Articles: More Meaningful Typography
Designing a website using a modular scale.
css  webdesign  typography  scale  from instapaper
may 2011
The Pale King - Boing Boing
dfw  literature  from instapaper
april 2011
The Non-Libertarian FAQ (aka Why I Hate Your Freedom)
A thoughtful critique of libertarianism (in the state-is-always-evil sense).
libertarianism  politics  from instapaper
april 2011
'We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die' - Spiegel interviewing Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco claims that lists create culture.
lists  inspiration  culture  umbertoeco  from instapaper
april 2011
Inside David Foster Wallace's Private Self-Help Library | The Awl
dfw  addiction  from instapaper
april 2011
The Inferno Shell
inferno  shell  programming  plan9  paper  from instapaper
march 2011
Wittgenstein for programmers (part 1) - (note-20110219T1113Z) - HXA7241
Tractatus works well when applied to programming.
philosophy  programming  wittgenstein  from instapaper
february 2011
How to Beat Procrastination - Less Wrong
Be optimist, increase the value of the task, reduce impulsiveness.
motivation  procrastination  productivity  psychology  optimism  from instapaper
february 2011
The Year of Practical Thinking by Giles Turnbull
"In 2010, I decided to put this to the test, and write down the one thing I learned each and every day of the year."
inspiration  365project  from instapaper
january 2011
What to know before debating type systems?
What does "static type system" mean? Or dynamic? Can they be compared?
types  programming  reference  from instapaper
january 2011
Science and Journalism by @BoraZ
For a while, science and journalism were quite distinct. They're finding each other again. They're also back to using phatic language to establish trust.
science  journalism  blogging  scienceblogging  history  from instapaper
december 2010
n+1: Sad as Hell
In a review of Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart, the author reflects on the effects of Internet on her life.
attention  neuroplasticity  internet  bookreview  from instapaper
december 2010
Boys' weeklies (1940)
George Orwell analyses the weeklies many British teenagers used to read. The magizens tell stories about life in public schools, more modern ones also featuring westerns, sci-fi etc. While majority of the readers belonged to working and middle class, the stories described upper class life. They're outdated, snobbish and right-leaning. Some every-day subjects such as sex and politics aren't mentioned at all.
orwell  magazine  fiction  weeklies  schoolstory  from instapaper
november 2010
Oil and Grain and the Soviet Collapse
Yegor Gaidar explains how the economics of grain and oil trade brought down the Sovien Union, with some illuminating graphs.
economy  history  sovietunion  trade  oil  from instapaper
november 2010
A Summary of Climategate
Several investigations conclude that here was no fraud.
science  globalwarming  climatechange  climategate  from instapaper
november 2010
Sharon Astyk: Is the Local Food Movement Elitist?
Turns out local, small-scale food is expensive because the food production regulations are designed for industrial scale food production.
local  food  industrialism  from instapaper
november 2010
Lessons From Swiss Style Graphic Design - Smashing Magazine
Seems like Scandinavian style in furniture.
typography  inspiration  design  swiss  grid  from instapaper
november 2010
Ralph Gomory: The Innovation Delusion
Innovation is billed as the savior of the economy when production moves to cheaper countries. The author arguments that R&D is so small part of process that exporting it isn't enough to balance importing ready products.
innovation  economy  from instapaper
november 2010
What we can learn from procrastination : The New Yorker
There might be more to procrastination than it first seems. Article presents philosophers' point of view.
procrastination  philosophy  from instapaper
november 2010
Did somebody just try to buy the British government?
A mysterious foundation is offering 20 billion pounds for the British government, no strings attached.
conspiracy  uk  from instapaper
november 2010
Better yet, DON'T write that novel - Laura Miller - Salon.com
Reading and writing, both are all about the author?
nanowrimo  reading  writing  inspiration  from instapaper
november 2010
Why Intelligent People Use More Drugs | Psychology Today
Intelligent people seem to embark in evolutionarily novel activities, such as using drugs, more than less intelligent people.
drugs  intelligence  from instapaper
november 2010
Alcohol 'more harmful than heroin or crack' | Society | The Guardian
When taking in account both the harm to the person and to the society, alcohol is ranked as the most harmful drug.
drugs  policy  from instapaper
november 2010
BBC News - Is modern fiction just not up to scratch?
from instapaper
october 2010
Lizard Brain » Blog Archive » MLN Hanover on Urban Fantasy
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october 2010
Lizard Brain » Blog Archive » 100 Aspects of Genre: Learning from the Dead and the Dying
What literary genres are?
scifi  genre  literature  from instapaper
october 2010
TPM: The Philosophers’ Magazine | Hacker’s challenge
Are neuroscientists and philosophers confused about what cognition is? Peter Hacker thinks so.
philosophy  cognition  neuroscience  from instapaper
october 2010
Games with Words: You're Wrong
Significant part of results published in high-profile scientific journals are false because the system favors publishing positive results over negative results.
science  replication  failure  from instapaper
october 2010
Putting a Price on Professors - WSJ.com
university  reform  education  from instapaper
october 2010
Bering in Mind: Being Suicidal: What it feels like to want to kill yourself
suicide  psychology  from instapaper
october 2010
Global Warning Skepticism in Tea Party - NYTimes.com
from instapaper
october 2010
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Writer
Turns out that writers have never been very highly-valued.
writing  from instapaper
october 2010
Generating thoughts « jsomers.net
Hack your mind to generate interesting thoughts.
productivity  inspiration  mindhack  feynman  from instapaper
october 2010
Kemppinen: Kaikkiruokaisuus
from instapaper
october 2010
Bacteria 'R' Us | Smart Journalism. Real Solutions. Miller-McCune.
from instapaper
october 2010
Science and the Decline of the Liberal Arts
science  humanities  education  university  from instapaper
october 2010
Things I Don’t Have to Think About Today
poem  tolerance  from instapaper
october 2010
t r u t h o u t | The Economic Hit Man Confesses Again: An Interview With John Perkins
from instapaper
october 2010
There's an app for personal productivity | Money | The Guardian
productivity  from instapaper
october 2010
“The current phenomenon of ‘bloggers’ should be of serious concern to scientists” | Terra Sigillata
science  blogging  journalism  from instapaper
october 2010
The Organizing Gap - A Healthy Information Diet - InfoVegan.com
from instapaper
october 2010
8 Bad Habits that Crush Your Creativity and Stifle Your Success | Randy Kepple Photographs Blog
productivity  creativity  from instapaper
october 2010
Instapaper Inventor Links Inattentive Reading to Information Obesity | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
from instapaper
october 2010
Single Dad Laughing: You just broke your child. Congratulations.
from instapaper
october 2010
Single Dad Laughing: The CURE for "Perfection"
from instapaper
october 2010
Addictions | Gamers With Jobs
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october 2010
At Sam Zell’s Tribune, Tales of a Bankrupt Culture - NYTimes.com
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october 2010
Single Dad Laughing: The disease called "Perfection"
perfection  from instapaper
october 2010
Speaking Up: Confronting Misrepresentation « Speaking of Research
Laboratory animals as presented by animal rights activists versus the scientists.
activism  science  animalrights  from instapaper
october 2010
In Defense of Lobbying - A Healthy Information Diet - InfoVegan.com
Lobbyists aren't the problem. Their clients are.
lobbying  politics  from instapaper
october 2010
Bubble Trouble In Finland? | afoe | A Fistful of Euros | European Opinion
An economist predicts that there's a housing bubble bursting soon in Finland.
economy  finland  from instapaper
october 2010
Bread and Circuses: The State of Web App Startups «
Should startups focus on "saving the world" instead of building new tools for consumerism?
startup  ethics  technology  aid  from instapaper
october 2010
“Distraction,” Simplicity, and Running Toward Shitstorms | 43 Folders
Strong, angry, wise words from Merlin Mann. Rambling at first, but gets better. How to /actually/ get things done.
productivity  from instapaper
october 2010
A Neighborhood of Infinity: Data and Codata
A good explanation of data and codata.
categorytheory  corecursion  computerscience  from instapaper
october 2010
Understanding vipassana meditation - Less Wrong
vipassana  meditation  from instapaper
october 2010
Democracy and Mathematics | The n-Category Café
from instapaper
october 2010
Fetishizing p-Values | The n-Category Café
statistics  science  from instapaper
october 2010
Is long-term solitary confinement torture? : The New Yorker
Why solitary isolation and supermax prisons are not necessarily a good idea.
prison  torture  isolation  justice  from instapaper
september 2010
America Is a Joke
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september 2010
Maan tapa täyttää järjestäytyneen rikollisuuden tunnusmerkit - HS.fi - Pääkirjoitukset
from instapaper
september 2010
Op-Ed Columnist - Downhill With the G.O.P. - NYTimes.com
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september 2010
Forbes blogs for sale | Analysis & Opinion |
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september 2010
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