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Dispense with the manifestation of allegiance!
I read Gogol's "Diary of a Madman" last night. It is simply brilliant. Brilliant!
Wow.
Give it a read if you have 20 minutes.
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The most flattering evaluation of knowledge itself
"That haughtiness which goes with knowledge and feeling, which shrouds the eyes and senses of man in a blinding fog, therefore deceives him about the value of existence by carrying in itself the most flattering evaluation of knowledge itself."
-Friedrich Nietzsche, On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense
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Man, I'm such a nerd
I need to stay up all tonight, so I am doing something I haven't done in a year and a half: calculus!
Time to break out the pencil and calculator (my sweet, sweet neglected Sharp EL-531W pink-tie calculator). Oh, I feel excited already! I've missed you, precious calculus. Why, just the other day I was thinking of you. I hope you've been thinking ( Read more... ) -
Canada: second worst at climate change
According to the UN's annual "Climate Change Performance Index", Canada is ranked as the second worst country at dealing with climate change. The worst is Saudi Arabia, and the third worst is the United States. The report is based on several things, including emissions levels, emissions trends, and climate policy.
-summarized from "Sweden ( Read more... )
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