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tartley.comA quick response to to polymath Chris DeLeon’s thoughtful post exhorting the virtues of Philosophy. A position of ignorance Right off the bat I should qualify all this by saying that I don’t know anything about Philosophy. I’ve never studied it. It seems at times to be an alien mismatch to the sensibilities of my [...]
by Michael Foord and Christian Muirhead Disclaimer: I’m friends with both the authors and was sent a freebie review copy by the publisher, so I’m bound to be breathlessly gushing in this review. Fortunately, that’s easy to do, because the book really is great. (Except for Christian’s chapters… Joke!) Having spent some years working with [...]
I’ve had a passing interest in computer graphics for years, but had avoided the technology of shaders these last few years, thinking that they were just another layer of complexity which I didn’t need to embark upon while I was still getting to grips with the standard OpenGL API. With hindsight, I was wrong. I [...]
by Cory Doctorow (not yet published) Cory very kindly brought an early manuscript of this as a gift to Michael, Giles and I when we met him a while ago, and I’ve been wracked with guilt ever since because I apparently lost it soon after. Thankfully, it recently turned up (on Christian‘s desk – my [...]
by Edward R. Tufte (1990) In much the same vein as Tufte’s The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, and displaying the same calibre of deeply incisive common-sense that cuts to the heart of all that’s right and wrong about the art and science of ‘information design’ – graphic design’s more pragmatic nephew. If you love [...]
By Lawrence Lessig, 2008. Is creating a mix CD for a friend an act of creativity, or a criminal offence? When you shoot a home video of your child which has a TV on in the background, is there really any need for lawsuits? What business do federal laws have in trying to regulate this [...]
by David Foster Wallace I’ve had such a diverse set of reactions to this, and how could I not? The writing is bold and idiosyncratic throughout. The novel’s story is not presented in chronological order, and the timeline is obfuscated by the gleeful adoption of ‘subsidised time’, in which traditional numeric monikers denoting each calender [...]
