January 2011
5 posts
“The Oracle of Delphi famously pronounced Socrates to be “the most intelligent...”
– Mark Pagel (via azspot)
“Just as a package sent by mail can bear a stamp “fragile”, “breakable” or...”
– Nassim Taleb (via azspot)
“But even so, the tragedy wouldn’t change this basic fact: for the past two...”
– It Doesn’t Matter Why He Did It (via azspot)
“The Ted Williams story is, of course, riveting and hopeful. But the nation’s...”
– Andy Borowitz (via azspot)
“As Faulkner and Fitzgerald made their attempts in Hollywood, more and more...”
– The New York Observer’s Dan Duray on a new twist in the $40-billion-a-year video game industry. (via utnereader)
This may not be such a surprising twist. See Nick Paumgarten’s recent profile fo Shigeru Miyamoto, the man behind Super Mario Brothers and Zelda, in which Miyamoto talks about how those...