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Posts from ‘January, 2008’

Things Pictured on "The Stuff of Thought"

Here is an attempt at an exhaustive list of objects drawn as colorful icons on the cover of the hardcover 2007 edition of Steven Pinker’s “The Stuff of Thought.”

fork
trash can
sunglasses
lamp, desk
salt shaker, pouring
football helmet
door (safe vault?)
film canister, 35 mm
mortar and pestle
plunger, toilet
vial, poison
condom
speaker, tweeter and woofer
cup with toothbrush
straitjacket
medicine dropper, dropping
monitor, computer
pills, [...]

Against Blogging, or Why I Am Discontinuing This Futility

1. An experiment in radical openness.
I started blogging in 2002/2003 as a way to post bug fixes that I’d discovered up onto the Web in a way that I and others could quickly find them. For example, if I got an “Parse Error #123 in dorklib.so,” and I found out [...]