Mind you this was sent to my fishbits, but I sort of love how “meta” spam is getting. It’s sorta why Google banked on Plus – it wasn’t a stab at a social network. It was a stab at being crutches for the (more…)
On Tasting Menus, Chefs & Ego, Fine Dining, and Luxury Goods vs perception.
Thomas Keller things we should redefine “chef” to be “worker” instead of “celebrity”. A friend thought it to be nonsense, because it’s all about ego. I disagree… I think it’s more about neuroses. (more…)
Detecting Baloney – the need for development of critical thought & honing our collective faculties….
The Economist is asking why people believe in nonsense. Well I will tell you: Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman, and others have known it for years: We need to teach critical thought to young people, (more…)
The Weirdest on the Internet, the most bizarre of the WEBSSz
http://www.feedthehead.net/ Feed the head http://www.koalastothemax.com/ CIRCLES! http://www.youfellasleepwatchingadvd.com/ You fell asleep watching a DVD http://wwwwwwwww.jodi.org/ Major (more…)
Questioning Ted Talks? After De Grey, then Lisi…. are they smart or smart sounding?
I wrote this around the time it was debunked (since then, a thorough debunking, somewhat rough for Garrett, popped up: http://motls.blogspot.com/2007/11/exceptionally-simple-theory-of.html)Â – “Did (more…)
10 arbitrary rules to live by. These aren’t set in stone, but they’re infallible. FISHBITS’ COMMANDMENTS:
TL;DR = LOOK AT THE BEAUTY IN LIFE – as suggested by a 109 year old Holocaust Survivor: “I know about the bad things, but I look to the good things.“ Alice Herz-Sommer I was (more…)
Brave New World vs. 1984 – Aldous Huxley’s note to George Orwell
This is so fascinating! This is an epic letter…. from Aldous Huxley to George Orwell, just after 1984 was published…. it becomes an interesting conversation about why Huxley thought his portrayal (more…)
Injecting elegance into Superstring may not be a bad thought….
Did Garrett Lisi have a wipeout? Maybe not, but what he injected into the GUT & superstring conversation is desperately needed. There *IS* groupthink, and there is confirmation bias, and there is protective (more…)
I heard you like technology? Let’s look at the science behind what is happening to our culture.. where will it lead?
Let’s ask some questions. We are guinea pigs, at the first 1% of these powerful new technologies that have rapidly, exponentially, grabbed hold of our lives in the last 5 or 6 decades. In the last 10 (more…)