Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. It has been described as, “The book for which there is no appropriate description.” It incorporates symbolic logic, cognitive science, Zen Buddhism, mathematics, consciousness, art, music, and much more. I first heard of it my freshman year of college while browsing E2, where it was (mostly) discussed [...]

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This just warms the cockles of my heart:

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This is sheer brilliance at work, people:
We at the Church of Google believe the search engine Google is the closest humankind has ever come to directly experiencing an actual God (as typically defined). We believe there is much more evidence in favour of Google’s divinity than there is for the divinity of other more traditional [...]

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I came upon this poem in “The Open Society and Its Enemies: Part 1″ by Karl R. Popper. It is of course, much older than that work, its author, Critias, living from 460 to 403 BCE.
I think one could read much into this poem these days, and it bears several interpretations.

Then came, it seems, that [...]

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Dave (who shall remain lastnameless) is the father of a friend and co-worker of mine. He’s a tall, friendly guy with a resonating voice who, in minutes, can have everyone at a party on their knees laughing so hard they can’t breathe.
Imagine my joy at being told some time ago that he now has a [...]

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