Archive for February, 2008
Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
Edward Tufte, god of information display, has famously claimed that "PowerPoint makes you stupid" (The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint).
David (Talking Heads) Byrne has disagreed (Envisioning Emotional Epistemological Information), with "I ♥ PowerPoint"".
Oz has sided with David Byrne, and has discovered the, um, joy, I guess, of PowerPoint. After doing ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Like everyone who does what I do for a living, I occasionally get asked what philosophy is, or what I do as a philosopher. Today, Brian Leiter links to a nice little collection of famous philosophers' quotes on "What is philosophy?" here; he also quotes two of the best, ...
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
As the chances that Obama will be the Dem running in the fall grow, so do my fears about the fundamental racial and religious (even though the guy's clearly Xian) biases that will be in play. Want a taste? Check out this scary bit from Rocketboom that my ...
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
Another recent Oz-let:
Oz has a pretty remarkably undeveloped sense about swearing. Once or twice the idea of a "bad word" has come up, but hardly at all. I'm a little surprised by this; by second grade, I hadn't started swearing (that began in earnest in fifth grade), but I certainly ...
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Sunday, February 10th, 2008
I have a couple of recent Oz-lets; here's one.
Oz has become a big Weird Al Yankovic fan. We had "The Food Album" (a compilation of his food-related songs from the 80's) in rotation when he was younger, but now he's decided Al is really funny and has been listening ...
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