ActiveCatalyst » Mind & Consciousness http://activecatalyst.wordpress.com Meme pump for working minds. Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:34:29 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ en hourly 1 http://www.gravatar.com/blavatar/83b9b1d3f9c3847dc67fd400cb19670b?s=96&d=http://s.wordpress.com/i/buttonw-com.png ActiveCatalyst » Mind & Consciousness http://activecatalyst.wordpress.com Bad Writing for Fun and Profit http://activecatalyst.wordpress.com/2008/03/29/bad-writing-for-fun-and-profit/ http://activecatalyst.wordpress.com/2008/03/29/bad-writing-for-fun-and-profit/#comments Sat, 29 Mar 2008 15:17:47 +0000 Mark P. Line http://activecatalyst.wordpress.com/2008/03/29/bad-writing-for-fun-and-profit/ ]]>

www.badhemingway.com

  • It was a website. It was a good website. It was the kind of website you would surf past on a cold, rainy night sitting in your hotel room in Bogota.
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Time Isn’t Money: Study Finds That We Spend The Resources Differently

  • I never bought into that whole “time is money” thing anyway. Time is nothing like money. Money comes in at a rate that you can manipulate, it goes out at a rate that you can manipulate and you can store it. Time always comes in at the rate of one hour per hour, it goes out at the rate of one hour per hour and you can’t store it. That makes time infinitely more precious than money — priceless, in fact.
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Bringing Second Life To Life: Researchers Create Character With Reasoning Abilities Of A Child

  • Okay, now this is cool. Not much more I can say.
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Plain Language: Improving Communications from the Federal Government to the Public

  • Okay. So now all we need is a means of communication from the public to the federal government. But maybe that’s not as important.
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Ontology and Formal Semantics – Integration Overdue

  • Overdue indeed. I became a semantician because I found the content representations being used in cognitive science were vacuous. Then I became an ontologist because I found the content representations being used in semantics were vacuous.
  • Only with plausible, common-sense ontology can we ever do plausible, common-sesne semantics. Only with plausible, common-sense semantics can we ever do plausible, common-sense cognitive science. Only with plausible, common-sense cognitive science can we ever do plausible, common-sense social science. Only with plausible, common-sense social science can we ever design effective, evidence-based policies to put our society back on track.
  • I guess that’s why they call it “integration”.
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Visible Thinking

  • So all you have to do now is move your kids to a country with an educational system designed to turn out creatively intelligent citizens instead of ignorant serfs, and you’re all set.
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Education Reform: The Tough Standards Movement

  • I’m not sure I want to go to the mall and be surrounded by people who can think.
  • Well, okay, maybe I do.
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Free will is not an illusion

Who thought it was an illusion?

Oh, never mind.

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Teenage anger linked to brains: study

Teenage anger linked to immaturity. News at 11.

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I bet those kids can send text messages faster than I can, though.

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