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Why I hate football: May 30th 2011 vs May 30th 2012
Of course, I don’t hate football. I love the Swans. I now add Liverpool to that shelf below Cardiff City for what I hate about football, but all in all I love football. It is crazy how this date has thrown up two completely contrasting sets of emotions over 366 days. Oh yeah, for those…
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An interesting philosophical kerfuffle
Interesting comments by David Berry at Stunlaw on Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO) based around what is the philosophical purpose of OOO and what are the political questions that arise from a clarification of that philosophical purpose. David writes a great (semi-) polemic on OOO, by fundamentally questioning the importance of knowing what it is like to be…
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The Raid and Post Cinematic Affect
DANGER: POSSIBLE SPOILERS ALTHOUGH I’LL TRY NOT TO… I went to see the Raid on Wednesday, and oh boy. It was good. Good in the way that delicious food makes Homer Simpson drool. Hubba hubba. It was good in short, satisfying my base desires for cathartic violence and death very nicely. It is also the…
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RSA Animate – Manuel Lima
Very enjoyable RSA video on networks. I’ve always found these animation videos excellent as the animation itself adds to the presentation rather than detracting from or distracting from the argument. As a visual aid to the main channel of communication the animation builds interest, builds attention and produces an enjoyment factor. These points should be transferrable to…
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First post
so… This is a blog to record my thoughts on stuff. I like stuff. I encounter stuff on a daily basis, and I like to ponder the excruciating minutiae of every encounter with stuff until I suffer a sub-cortical haemorrhage of thinking. Or something. I’ll be blogging on the important things – films, comics, video games, sports, you know,…