Thursday, December 24, 2009

This Really Gets My Goat


"A giant straw goat - the traditional Scandinavian yuletide symbol - erected each Christmas in a Swedish town has been burned to the ground yet again.

The 13-metre (43-ft) high billy goat has been torched 24 times since it was first erected in Gavle in 1966."

"Swedish Christmas straw goat burnt", BBC, December 23, 2009

Friday, December 18, 2009

Booba and Kiki

In this video, James Geary discusses metaphor, which he says is a way of thought before it is a way of words. He explains the mathematics of metaphor and concludes that metaphor is not just the detection of patterns, but the creation of patterns.



Tuesday, December 15, 2009

SWR.com: Three Works By The Roomba Mifi

Concerning The Apology of Socrates

Curious Observations in Aristotle's Ethics

A Meditation on the Freedom of the Will, In Three Parts