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logician’s pickup line

posted this to my twitter, but it’s too good not to repeat here.

Posted 15 July 2008 † Simon Charlow § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0)

rss feeds i check

different from my blogroll, though some crossover exists. there’s 37 of them, which is, to me, terrifying since i try to keep up with all of them.

atrios, bike snob nyc, eternally yours, ezra klein, hullabaloo, interesting times (george packer), james fallows, little hits, manifest density, marc ambinder, marginal revolution, matthew yglesias, megan mcardle, n+1 feed, de crapulas edormiendo, david brooks opeds, paul krugman opeds, tom friedman opeds, the conscience of a liberal (paul krugman), political animal, powerset inc. job feed, sadly, no!, semantics etc., semanticsarthive.net, some-antics, spencer ackerman, talking points memo, tapped, tbogg, the current, the daily dish, the perry bible fellowship, the plank, swampland, wilfully obscure, yo-shang cheng, zen habits

i seem to remember there being an rss feed of your subscribed feeds on google reader (but can’t really find it right now), which you could in turn subscribe to (can has recurzn!), which makes me wish for an rss feed of all the feeds which don’t contain themselves.

Posted 13 June 2008 † Simon Charlow § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0)

also

uni’s back!

(this post has been edited ;))

Posted 13 June 2008 † Simon Charlow § uni ‡ Comments (0)

matt yglesias at the strand

i sometimes wonder whether i’m capable of unreservedly enjoying things that aren’t music. seeing matt yglesias speak tonight (with josh marshall of tpm), however, was just completely fantastic (if you’ve ever read this blog before you’ll probably have picked up that i’m a big fan). matt’s incredibly sharp (and pithy). i liked it enough that i bought a copy of heads in the sand. i actually even waited in line to have matt sign my copy. i asked him to make it out “from one trust fund scumbag to another” (sans hyperlink).

Posted 13 June 2008 † Simon Charlow § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0)

it really is

it’s really quite staggering the extent to which the mccain campaign appears to be amateur hour. (some more context here)

Posted 11 June 2008 † Simon Charlow § political ‡ Comments (0)

one of the more

one of the more unsavory aspects of spencer ackerman’s often-trenchant blog is his tendency to lace posts with homophobic schoolyard taunts.

Posted 10 June 2008 † Simon Charlow § political ‡ Comments (0)

hey we have a nominee

and i’m using this historic event as an excuse to link to one of the best onion articles (well, headlines) ever.

Posted 04 June 2008 † Simon Charlow § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0)

apparently, everyone’s crazy

must admit i’ve had my suspicions.

late update: brendan nyhan hilzoy highlights the most terrifying statistic of all here (last para).

Posted 27 May 2008 † Simon Charlow § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0)

free focus

heard this on the train the other day. seems like a nice free focus case:

only if it says “SIGN HERE” should you do so

now i don’t know if do-so constructions are really ellipsis constructions or how they’re usually treated in the literature, but in any case the “free focus” reading on this one seems perfectly natural (i.e. signing here is the only P such that if it says ‘P‘ you should sign here).

indeed, here the “bound focus” reading (i.e. signing here is the only P such that if it says ‘P‘ you should P) seems hard to get. wonder what’s going on here. something about do-so constructions in general seems to make them hard to get bound focus readings with.

Posted 22 May 2008 † Simon Charlow § semantics § binding § ellipsis § focus ‡ Comments (0)

important update

yesterday, any hopes i may have entertained of making it through life without being shit on by a bird were dashed forever.

Posted 11 May 2008 † Simon Charlow § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0)