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Alabama Philosophers Invade Florida, Part 2
Reminder: just two days until the deadline for submitting a paper to this year’s Alabama Philosophical Society meeting; details here.
Have a Coke and a Smile
Okay, this is now my favourite Coke ad ever:
The Incredulous Shrinking Man
Richard Armitage knows what the word “incredulous” means; but the folks who write the headlines at TheOneRing.net don’t.
How the Daleks Stole Christmas
Maybe it’s not quite as iconically, surreally, perversely enjoyably awful as Leonard Nimoy’s Bilbo ballad, but the Dalek Christmas song – by the Go-Go’s (but not the proper Go-Go’s), from 1964 – is still a blight upon the face of the universe. So of course I have to inflict it on you:
The only bearable part is the bit where they’re ripping off the Peter Gunn theme.
If You Prick Us, Do We Not Burst?
Jesse Walker’s latest column does a great of replying to internet critics like Eli Pariser, Andrew Shapiro, and Cass Sunstein, who think the internet is isolating us from viewpoints we disagree with.
You can post a comment disagreeing with him, but I won’t read it.