March 2012
13 posts
A sumbission experiment....
rachelfershleiser:
This is what madness looks like
“Dear Sir:
I like words. I like fat buttery words, such as ooze, turpitude,...”
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My new favorite job application letter, from 1934. He ended up winning an Oscar for screenwriting!
(via Letters of Note)
We like words too.
(via good)
Nobody Knows How Smart They Are
Nobody.
I’ve seen my friends, smart people, link to this article with the provocative headline “Incompetent People Too Ignorant to Know It”. The point of the article is that research by David Dunning of Cornell proves that across all domains of knowledge, “To put it bluntly, dumb people are too dumb to know it.”
Except that’s not what the research says. At...
Not Actually Happening Ep. 3 — Piltdown Man |... →
kevinefclark:
More web content… more! This time it’s a podcast for your trip home, or your lunch hour, or while you’re sitting at your desk with headphones trying not to explain to your boss why you just snorted.
The conversation map of this one travels to some weird places, including some literary steps through le Carré and García Márquez.
The Cyclical Defense of Offense
I see this all the time. Someone does or says something offensive. Indefensible. Horrible, reductive, hateful, mean. Defenders pop up anyway, and take one of two tactics.
Tactic 1, for first time offenses, “it was only one instant, it didn’t represent a larger pattern, it’s an unfortunate choice, no offense intended, so sorry you were offended.”
Tactic 2, for second...
"Should Batman Kill the Joker?" is a Stupid...
Okay, so one of the core elements of Batman is that he does not kill. He uses non-lethal tactics to take out some of the worst murderers and terrorists in the world, but he will not kill. Having lost his parents to gunfire, he knows the pain losing someone can cause, and he refuses to kill.
And yet, there’s always someone arguing that Batman should kill the Joker. And the argument always...
