“Logic stays true, wherever you may go,
So logic never tells you where you live.”

(tags: reasoning philosophy statistics Bayesianism logic learning rationality)

“SHOW, DON’T TELL”

(tags: fiction writing language methodologies examples memory proverbs criticism)

recombination

(tags: linguistics rhetoric classics figures-of-speech writing)

via: boingboing

(tags: advice creativity education learning-by-doing learning pedagogy philosophy quotes)

“Payday lending had no discernible effect on the availability of credit. In addition, twice as many borrowers reported they were better off without payday lending than they had been with it.”

(tags: economics public-policy credit corporations lobbying government agendas)

(tags: academia publishing books textbooks economics business-plan openness disintermediation)

Porous concrete

(tags: sprawlette sustainability water landscape-architecture public-planning infrastructure)

(tags: politics fascism government Bushism scandal sad)

“Less Evil Stoopid Please!”

(tags: politics government censorship sex conservatism schadenfreude)

(tags: programming Ruby RoR Rails patch benchmarking performance optimization)

Lots of familiar entries there

(tags: image-processing technology OCR affordances gadgets)

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(tags: library2.0 books technology meeting public-speaking school-of-information local Michigan University-of-Michigan)