{"id":1160,"date":"2007-10-26T12:06:37","date_gmt":"2007-10-26T16:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1160"},"modified":"2007-10-26T12:06:37","modified_gmt":"2007-10-26T16:06:37","slug":"cartoons-stupidity-cleverness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1160","title":{"rendered":"Cartoons, stupidity, cleverness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul>\n<li>I think the third frame in <a href=\"http:\/\/itre.cis.upenn.edu\/~myl\/languagelog\/archives\/005044.html\">this<\/a> <em>Doonesbury<\/em> packs a lot into one picture.<\/li>\n<li>Whereas xkcd, <a href=\"http:\/\/imgs.xkcd.com\/comics\/getting_out_of_hand.png\">here,<\/a> doesn&#8217;t even need speech.<\/li>\n<li>And, on geekery, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkgeek.com\/tshirts\/generic\/991e\/\">I want this<\/a> for Christmas.<\/li>\n<li>Still geeking: you could not improve <a href=\"http:\/\/bugzilla.gnome.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=489958\">this definition<\/a> of &#8220;open&#8221;, or indeed, &#8220;anyone&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>On stupidity: Andrew Leonard <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/tech\/htww\/2007\/10\/25\/climate_collaboratorium\/index.html\">quotes<\/a> an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitpressjournals.org\/doi\/pdf\/10.1162\/itgg.2007.2.3.15\"><span class=\"caps\">MIT <\/span>report<\/a>. <span class=\"sane\">&#8220;Today&#8217;s on-line discussion forums, blogs, and chat rooms do a good job of encouraging lots of people to express their opinions and share them widely. But these systems are not very good at supporting evidence-based, logical deliberation: the quality of contributions can vary enormously.<\/span><br \/>\nand adds<br \/>\n<span class=\"loony\">Which is kind of like saying nuclear bombs do a good job when employed for purposes of mass destruction, but are not so great for handcrafting quality woodwork<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Clever people: David Chalmers <a href=\"http:\/\/fragments.consc.net\/djc\/2007\/10\/mindpapers.html\">has tarted up<\/a> his already excellent consciousness bibliography.<\/li>\n<li>Perhaps you would prefer <a href=\"http:\/\/biosource.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/online-books-ncbi-ebooks.html\">biology<\/a>? Lots of good searchable texts there.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think the third frame in this Doonesbury packs a lot into one picture. Whereas xkcd, here, doesn&#8217;t even need speech. And, on geekery, I want this for Christmas. Still geeking: you could not improve this definition of &#8220;open&#8221;, or &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1160\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1160\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}