4 month ago
Linkorama : Fight for the Life Of the Mind - Like most clichés, it contains a grain of truth but greatly exaggerates the case. Above all, it fails to make the crucial distinction between actual knowledge (i.e. rationally justified true belief) and purported knowledge.
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plasticbag : Rory Bremner apparently rang up a highly-placed government minister and had a conversation with her while pretending to be Gordon Brown... - Margaret Beckett has said that if such a conversation took place it would be, "both an unprincipled and unpleasant breach of privacy" and I absolutely agree with her. Illuminating it might be, but it's also not really terribly cool.
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19 month ago
cameron : 'Bridezilla' Wasn't Hacking Off a Wig - That totally ridiculous video was acted, and very convincingly.
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21 month ago
deusx : Red Sweater Blog - Macintendo Family Values - "We are prepared to accept criticism for the relative lack of features our products possess, because we know that focusing on the functionality will ultimately astound our customers, generating insurmountable brand loyalty."
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30 month ago
gleuschk : [math/0603599] A Comment on "On Some Contradictory Computations in Multi-dimensional Mathematics" - (a) the results ... are correct and in this case we need a revolution in Mathematics (and also in Physics) or (b) the paper is a potpourri of nonsense. We show that option (b) is the correct one.
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37 month ago
jkottke : How to identify faked photos - How to identify faked photos.
gleuschk : how to identify faked photos - long and fascinating
François Nonnenmacher : Identifying falsified images
kayodeok : photofakery: How to identify faked photos - Identifying falsified images can be straightforward if you know a few tricks
Nelson Minar : Detecting fake photos - Detailed examples
philgyford : oe magazine - photofakery - Guide to spotting fake photos (via Yoz via Kottke)
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38 month ago
gleuschk : more from E.E. Escultura in the Manila Times - including messages from Andrew Wiles' coauthors (left in EEE's "guess book")
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42 month ago
Rod Begbie : The Triforce » Toothing - Large quantities of the unthinking non-critical media, effortlessly hoaxed. [via] #
cameron : Toothing declared a hoax - Good game guys, you had me on
Nelson Minar : Toothing was a hoax - The common sense test apparently no longer applies (via BoingBoing)
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48 month ago
Andy Baio : Jeopardy's "Blogs" category - links to the questions for all five answers [via] [via]
cameron : Jeopardy category: Blogs - gotta be a hoax
Adam Gessaman : Jeopardy category: Blogs
jkottke : There was a "blogs" category on Jeopardy the other day
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