funny sight...

I've joked about this before, but I actually saw it this afternoon:
The ice cream man, flying down the street at 30 MPH, with the music on.



No one was chasing him.

Sweet! Roald Dahl in the New Yorker

A piece on one of my favorite children's authors -- very cool.
Roald Dahl!

About PEAR

There's an interesting article about Princeton's Engineering Anomalies Research lab in WIRED. PEAR studies the degree to which people can impact mechanical systems using only their minds. Fringe? You bet. But they're doing real science and having some suprising results. I first learned of PEAR while I was an undergrad at USF and I'm thrilled that they exist. I'm glad to see scientists exploring the margins of our known universe.

Yikes! Supreme Court Justice O'Connor retires

OK, Big Scary. If you're a liberal, and you're THINKING about getting more involved in politics, now is a great time to get started because this one's for real -- the Bush administration is probably going to fill TWO vacancies on the Supreme Court. Let your congress person know what kind of justices you want appointed. Daily.
Supreme Court Justice O'Connor retires - Yahoo! News

Ha! Take THAT, truth functional model of cognition and meaning!

Throw this on the heap of evidence that suggests that cognition and meaning are not based on the settling the truth or falsity of "statements". I thought that this research is really, really clever -- people don't process information in discrete "quanta" (i.e. statement by statement) but they process on the fly, and assess the value of competing options on a sliding scale of good/bad as the information arrives...

In other words, we're doing the best we can with the information we're given.

Cornell News: New mind model