February 2012
65 posts
“What is death and loss to one thing is birth and gain to another and to the...”
– Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, I.22.2. This called to mind Carl Sagan’s “We are star-stuff”.
“After two decades of studying, reading about and doing corporate...”
– You don’t need to be a lefty to think the NHS reforms are mad | Flip Chart Fairy Tales
“Asked whether he thought he would possess any of his beloved library books in...”
– Of course, “giving away” books is becoming so passé. Replaced by “recommending that other people buy the same book for their Kindle that you bought for yours”. Yay, capitalism!
(See also this recent xkcd cartoon, especially the mouseover.)
/ht @callingbird
Time to retire the #firstworldproblems hashtag. We...
What she doesn’t acknowledge is that my fiance and I look terrible together. Separately, we are fine. However, while I love my fiance with all my heart, our features just don’t complement each other.
Dear Prudence
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“Beware the person of one book.”
– Thomas Aquinas
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“I couldn’t make any judgment on the Summa, except to say this: I read it...”
– Flannery O’Connor on Thomas Aquinas.
“Each new discovery, even every new theory, is held at first to have the most...”
– C.S. Lewis on the prospect of “alien life”.
WatchMesmerising yearoftheglitch video. (Strobe warning?)
/via yearoftheglitch:
040 of 366
Source: a video consisting of one black frame and one white frame.
Process: iterative re-compression using Quicktime .MOV h264 w/ QT filters and selective manipulation of the raw data using a hex editor.
Concept: successive signal degradation returns to the initial starting point.
“I believe that we should all be much more cautious and conscious when engaging...”
– Why Mark Driscoll is Damnably Wrong | Alastair’s Adversaria (a post title which, as Alastair observes, will produce a lot more hits than “Thoughts on the Flawed Criteria for Engagement with and Amplification of Ideas Online”…)
“Thomas provides important insights for how one can affirm a robust notion of...”
– Seminars | The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion
Yes! This is me when I read things like this:
“Bayard’s central thesis is that to be able to talk about books, to be able...”
– From a review of How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read by Pierre Bayard (which I’ve now ordered from the library).
“In his controversial 2011 documentary, Choosing to Die, Pratchett said that:...”
– Terry Pratchett and the right to die debate - Greg Daly.
Daly also observes that “a right to die, once enshrined in law, could all too easily become a duty to die, especially for the most vulnerable and least obviously productive among us”.
“Thomas considers it not a small part of the theologian’s task to...”
– Timothy McDermott, preface to Summa Theologiae: A Concise Translation, p.lvi.
“There’s a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker”
– Charles M. Schulz
(via mickyates)
The irony is that this would make a great bumper sticker.
“The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its...”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer, born on this day in 1906.
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“I know we all feel a real sense of catharsis now that someone none of us will...”
– Marina Hyde: Off with their knighthoods … after Fred Goodwin, who should be next?
“If you got behind Wall Street, you went to Lake Como every summer. If you left...”
– Robert Johnson, director of the Institute of New Economic Thinking, quoting a “leading west coast economist”.
Via: Who came up with the model for excessive pay? No, it wasn’t the bankers – it was academics | Aditya Chakrabortty | The Guardian
