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Dostojevsky

Ik ben een groot Dostojevsky fan. Wat had je gedacht, ik ben een drama queen. Ben net begonnen aan Netochka Nezvanova, in het Nederlands vertaald naar De Verstotene. Het psychologisch inzicht van die man is fenomenaal, in elk boek weer. Dostojevsky leest als een cursus psychologie, uit de tijd toen van psychologie nog geen sprake [...]

9.02.2007 1:21 pm : Books : No Comments

Confidence in the Law

The last thing we need is more confidence. Everything written, everything read, is nothing less than a hypothesis, a conjecture. Truth has eluded us with the persistence of a hermit, and every Being has proved nothing but it’s own antipole. The ever populist derision of ideology is a mere plume from the blackhole of the [...]

20.12.2005 9:27 am : Bias, Books : No Comments

Da Vinci Kots

My feeling exactly.
(Disclaimer: I read the book… and didn’t like it. Read Foucault’s Pendulum instead.)

5.07.2005 12:45 pm : Books : 1 Comment

Walden pond - Concord, MA

This is the pond Henry David Thoreau wrote about in his famous book Walden.

29.04.2005 8:21 am : Books, History : No Comments

The Wisdom of Crowds

The Wise Many:
Surowiecki argues that, under the right conditions, large groups of people exercise exceptionally good judgment. Even accounting for individual limitations and natural tendencies toward prejudice and irrationality, collective decisions usually will outperform expert opinion, particularly when the group does not defer to those opinions. What those “right conditions” are is the good part. [...]

8.07.2004 7:55 am : Bias, Books : No Comments

The Late, Great Planet Earth

This weekend, I was rummaging through some old stuff of mine. I moved out of my parent’s house eight years ago, and left a lot of things in my old room, old toys, old books, etc. For some reason, my father bought a copy of Hal Lindsey’s The Late, Great Planet Earth (we have a [...]

26.05.2004 11:13 am : Bias, Books, History : No Comments

Marked-up, for her pleasure, part 1

People have hobbies. Some read books, watch movies, ski, surf, skate, dance, walk, eat … I mark up. The Problems of Philosophy, by Bertrand Russell in XHTML 1.1 Strict. Hands-down the finest version of this book on the Internet. Download it, print it, read it.

25.05.2004 8:25 am : Books : No Comments

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