Monthly Archives: April 2006

Philosophy Talk: The Blog: Does Truth Matter?

Posted on 2006-04-27 by site admin

From the ‘PhilosophyTalk’ blog, Ken Taylor’s posting on Does Truth Matter? leads to a discussion in which the question of whether the question has a well defined answer becomes one of the issues to address. But although “Truth matters” may … Continue reading →

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Senator John Kerry | The Right to Dissent

Posted on 2006-04-25 by site admin

Senator John Kerry | The Right to Dissent was linked from David Brin

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Portrait: ‘John Stuart Mill’ by Richard Reeves | Prospect Magazine May 2006 issue 122

Posted on 2006-04-25 by site admin

Got this via Arts&Letters Daily. Might be of interest to David Brin.

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THE ESSENTIAL MAN

Posted on 2006-04-18 by site admin

Article by David Brin commenting on what Rumsfeld’s perception of his own “irreplaceability” says about the conservative talent pool and drawing parallels with historical “restraint of trade” in the management business.

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Executive Compensation

Posted on 2006-04-10 by site admin

Outside Advice on Boss’s Pay May Not Be So Independent says the New York Times.

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H5N1: The Guardian reacts

Posted on 2006-04-07 by site admin

In this posting on his H5N1 blog, Crawford Killian goes off-topic with a discussion of on-screen readability issues. But I believe our different reactions to his examples show that what constitutes readability is far more subjective than the experts admit.

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