Archive for June, 2007
Some great laughs
Today my cousin Manuel sent me a youtube link pointing to a sketch for an humoristic TV show he and some other talented people are creating. The gags reminds me of those from Monty Python. Bright and acid, criticizing some of our worst defects as a society by looking at them through a surreal glass. […]
Sólo lectura
A través de un artículo de El PAÍS se puede leer en una entrevista a Lawrence Lessig: la cultura en el siglo XIX era “regrabable”, ya que los autores creaban apoyándose en las ideas de otros. El siglo XX es de “sólo lectura”, porque la extensión del copyright -en la Constitución estadounidense de 1787 duraba […]
On how to argue
Here’s an interesting cite dealing with how to argue constructively. These words are attributed to the mathematical psychologist Anatol Rapoport and I discovered them thanks to the brilliant Bryan O’Sullivan blog, of Mercurial fame: Serious argument depends on mutual respect, and this is often hard to engender when disagreements turn vehement. The social psychologist and […]