Category: Musicology

  • Send lawyers, guns, and money

    Hey, my triumvirate of motivations meme is getting legs. I noticed a visitor today referred from a post called [Python-Dev] Missing symbol in sre.py (Python 2.2.2b1) on what I gather is a list for Python developers).

  • Tweney on a mass-amateurization precedent (from my comments)

    Seems like today is all about followups and conversations among blogs. (For example, Mark Byron noticed my unfisking yesterday and wrote about it in his blog. My response to his response to my response to his original post can be found in his comments.) So I wanted to elevate an interesting thread from my comments.…

  • 'We only fisk the stoopid ones'

    Minnesota columnist James Lileks is a charming writer, if a little flashy (like the guitar soloist who uses volume and speed to get the inevitable cheer from the audience), who understands the web medium mighty well. As I study warblog jargon, I’m fairly confident that his interleaved, point-for-point refutation of a speech by Senator Paul…

  • WebCollage: Exterminate All Rational Thought

    WebCollage: Exterminate All Rational Thought

  • And in the darkness bind them

    Allow me to acquaint you with this moment’s meme: (via plasticbag)

  • 'Who is our enemy' meme crosses to email

    An old philosophy buddy of mine sent me this e-mail message this morning, with the subject “Help me before I get hawkish”: Despite some fatuous chest-thumping about the greatness of American culture herein, I find this indictment of Arab/Islamist culture hard to argue with, along with the claims about possible Arab responses to the situation.…