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Posts from ‘January, 2008’

Things Pictured on "The Stuff of Thought"

Jan 21st, 2008
by rlucas.
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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 [...]

Against Blogging, or Why I Am Discontinuing This Futility

Jan 10th, 2008
by rlucas.
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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 how to fix it, [...]