History

I'm one of those people who, when visiting for the first time, make for the bookshelves as soon as politely possible to find out what kind of a person I'm visiting (next stop is their music collection). Nowadays I suppose the best place to look would be the History tab on their browser, though people are less happy to let visitors look their history than their bookshelves. Anyway, here is my history I've visited in the last few days (excluding the obvious ones like LJ and Google)

www.maryams.net
sunsite.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr/pub/ctan
ftp.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de
www.math.tau.ac.il
felix.unife.it
cgm.cs.mcgill.ca
www.lojban.org
xiron.pc.helsinki.fi
www.progressivemuslims.com
islamtopsites.com
ptolemy.tig.uci.edu
www.echonyc.com
www.getty.edu
www.popslash.net
neptune.spaceports.com/~words (that's me, that is)

God, that collection is geeky! The disproportionate number of Islamic sites is not a sign that I'm getting more religious, it's just a chain of links followed from slit.

Those who forget history are condemned to repeat it.

Male logic

For ankh156 and anyone else who's been trying unsuccessfully to read this essay, I've put it on another site.

"Male logic" and "women's intuition"
I just love scare-quotes!

Ave atque vale

Dammit, I was just settling down to feeling contented, having got over a sizeable hump in my work life (all papers graded!) and now I feel melancholy. One reason is minor, but too personal to get into here (that's not so much personal as in my person, as in involving a person I don't want to bring into a public forum). The other is that I've just heard that John Rawls has died. Since he died at the age of 81 after a fairly eudaemonic life, I'm not exactly upset, but as I said, a little melancholy. However many holes you can poke in his arguments (and work of such ambitious scope has to have a few holes), he was definitely one of the major names in twentieth-century philosophy. I even played around with some of his catch-phrases in a recent paper ("a thin theory of the good" became "a very thin theory of the good", and "the difference principle" became "the diffidence principle").

Not a happy Solri, now!