Administrative 99 things on the wall meme 19 Nov 2008 From here via here via here, 99 things I have or haven’t done. Read More
History It’s official – Wittgenstein wins in a landslide 11 Mar 2009 Leiter’s poll has Wittgenstein beating Frege. I’m disappointed that Peirce didn’t get a higher ranking, and astonished the Nietzsche did. Read More
The first thing that comes to my mind is the expression ‘Lord love a duck,’ or in this case, giraffe love a duck. Thank you for introducing me to Cyanide and Happiness Comics.
What’s particularly amusing about this is that it reinvents the medieval conception of how species came to be. The giraffe, ironically, was thought itself to be a hybrid of the camel and the leopard, which explains its medieval name cameleopard – true story.
Yes. Somebody queried who Snowflake was, and I realised it was a bit confusing. Fortunately, not many people are called John…