Entries from December 2008
December 21, 2008
To Listen
To listen is to collect information except for people from authoritarian societies where to listen is to follow orders.
December 15, 2008
Shell, CCS and Clean Coal
Shell are advertising their version of the energy future prominently in the NY Times as sponsors of NY Times Extra. Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) figures prominently and have a nice write-up on it. CCS needs to be better understood by the public and all efforts are appreciated. Nevertheless, they haven’t got the artwork [...]
December 14, 2008
The White Tiger
Earlier this week I read Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger – winner of the Man Booker prize for 2008. While a lot of reviewers have high praise for the novel, particularly the “new voice” it brings, I found the book to be quite ordinary. Though a fun read it is certainly not worthy of the [...]
December 13, 2008
Mirrors and fatherhood
For one of those gnostics, the visible universe was an illusion or (more precisely) a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply and disseminate that universe.
- Unnamed heresiarch of Uqbar
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Mirrors and copulation are abominable, because they increase the number of men.
- Unnamed heresiarch of Uqbar
From Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius – a do-I-even-need-to-specify-short [...]
