1 January 2005
Today's reading list
- Repeat after me
- Ways to fix your life: Quit your job
- Let Them Eat Prose
- Why Wikipedia Must Jettison Its Anti-Elitism
- Repeat after me
- Ways to fix your life: Quit your job
- Let Them Eat Prose
- Why Wikipedia Must Jettison Its Anti-Elitism
[ via Economist.com ]
Further proof for puntuated equilibrium [Wikipedia] is found while studying differences in dog breeds. PE states that a great deal of evolutionary change occurs in quick bursts separated by long periods of stability. I had originally read about PE in The Triumph of Evolution: And the Failure of Creationism [Amazon] by the theory's creator, Niles Eldredge. The Wikipedia entry notes a wonderful quote on PE by Darwin in Origin of the Species [Amazon]: [T]he periods during which species have undergone modification, though long as measured in years, have probably been short in comparison with the periods during which they retain the same form.
[ via Yahoo! News ]
Wonderful stories of, you guessed it, quitting a suck-ass job and becoming happy once again. Remember being happy? It's nice.
[ via Harper's Magazine ]
A reprint of a short article from the an 1886 Harper's arguing that as books become less expensive they become less valued and our reading habits diminish as a society. A subtle argument when placed on a magazine's blog.
[ via Kuro5hin ]
Long article by Larry Sanger [Wikipedia], a cofounder of Wikipedia on the problems with Wikipedia. Includes some interesting comments.
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