Linkblogging for 24/10/08
I *will* be joining in the conversation in that interview post tomorrow… I’ve just been rushed off my feet…
Debi Linton writes about her experiences of ADD.
That reminds me to link to something I meant to link to a while back – http://reciprocality.org . This is a very strange site that some of you will find fascinating and others will find appaling. It’s someone who started out trying to teach people how to think like a computer programmer, then tried figuring out *why* computer programmers think as they do, then applied that reasoning to other areas of science. As he gets further and further from his area of expertise, he eventually creates a Grand Unified Theory with nothing to actually support it except his own hypotheses – and like all such, it seems to me more than a little twisted – but I like reading people throw out ideas, even insane ones, and the stuff at the beginning (where he knows what he’s talking about) is actually pretty dead-on…
Support the right of unions to expel BNP members.
Another celebrity comes out for Obama
And Marc Singer has a very interesting review of All-Star Superman
You know, on the whole I think I’d rather have a physicist explain computer programming to me, than a computer programmer explain physics to me. That is, if I have to choose.
For God’s sake, why are programmers always trying to tell me about physics? And cognitive psychology, and economics, and art too. Just the other day I had one tell me all about how to run a coffee shop. So who in the world told them they were all such damn DaVincis?
Curse you, Andrew!
Still, it has a certain shrooms-blasted elegance to it — I would use it as a notional physics in a science-fiction story without too much reservation. Gott love the contracting universe, anyway…!
I mean “gotta”, of course.