How are philosophers and physicists alike?
They each think they’re working with the source code of the universe while everyone else is just clicking on pretty icons.
How are philosophers and physicists different?
The philosophers are right.
Nuns On a Bus
Collect the Whole Set
David Cameron and Vladimir Putin – action figures, fully posable!
Mickey Marx
Check out this fascinating anti-Nazi Disney film from 1943. (CHT Tennyson.)
I notice that at 8:31, the list of authors whose books are being burned includes Voltaire, Spinoza, Einstein – and, very briefly, before being obscured by the flames, a short name beginning “Ma” with the rest covered up, which is obviously supposed to be Marx. Subliminal communist propaganda in Disney!
Hiro For Hire
Neal Stephenson’s 1992 novel Snow Crash is being adapted into a film.
This will arguably be the second feature based on the book, the first being the reality show we are currently living in.
Priorities
Overheard at a local restaurant, from someone discussing the recent Auburn shootings: “And the worst thing of all is, I used to live in that apartment complex.”