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Tags and clouds

rattus — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:34:53 +0000

WordPress, the software we use here, recently added support for tags. I always hoped to be able to assign more attributes and provide links to related entries. This is now possible thanks to great efforts of the WordPress community

During the last weeks I copied my tags from my old and abandoned system. Now, about half of the entries have tags, and also the tag cloud is growing. Within the next weeks I will add tags to the rest of the entries.

Try an updated secret

rattus — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 22:44:13 +0000

I had the pleasure to update and expand my entry Try a secret.

Scratchpad mirror

rattus — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 06:43:02 +0000

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Serious parody

rattus — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 21:47:38 +0000

rattus rattus is not getting tired of adding to his life (and blog) this most serious statement:

Parody! Not to be taken seriously!

ik (anyway wittily) asked:

Is it a parody that you are not to be taken seriously or are you a parody which is not to be taken seriously or….? )

After all, the parody is parody. — Not just trivially, also seriously.
Of course, the phrase is part of the parody — and as such — it is seriously not to be taken seriously either.

Serious as in law suit or getting shot. As the man, who signed many of his illustrations with this very phrase, knew so well.

What’s really wrong with most people is hey take life too seriously.
— Larry Flynt

If this is part of your life (don’t) take it too seriously. Or be wrong.

This blog ain’t dead

rattus — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:00:15 +0000

I am not into telling the future (please note the nicely hidden self-contradictory aspect of this statement; thanks) but this blog ain’t dead.

Yet.

thisdoesnotexistahaha

rattus — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:43:18 +0000

Since a few days, someone (or maybe not) repeatedly tries to load a page from this blog’s server with the address thisdoesnotexistahaha.

Apparently a lying liar.

Hey, lying surfer, you are welcome!

Connecting the dots

rattus — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:17:08 +0000

Wrong but wrong

rattus — Sun, 06 May 2007 08:39:30 +0000

Inspired by ideas circling around some postings here, such as “What is wrong“, we at contradicTshirts established a new series of designs and T-shirts: right/wrong.

Bad science

rattus — Sat, 05 May 2007 08:17:53 +0000

If there was a commandment for “(really) good liars” it might be: You shall not use fallacious arguments. A “bad liar” — heck, who would not want to be bad from time to time — might just as well juggle with fallacies, and hope for the listeners logical illiteracy.

The Fallacy Files is one of Internet’s finest collection of examples of fallacious reasoning, see for instance “appeals to ignorance“. Moreover, Fallacy Files comes with a weblog, a comprehensive taxonomy of logical fallacies, and more.

Bad Science is the tempting apple that does not fall far from the tree of fallacious reasoning. “If you ever doubted the dangers of fallacious reasoning” says Gary N. Curtis, author of the Fallacy Files, you should read Losing the Lottery by Ben Goldacre, “guardian” of Bad Science.

If you’re unlucky enough, fallacious reasoning could put you behind bars for the rest of your life for “murders” you didn’t commit, and which in fact may not be murders at all.
— Gary N. Curtis, Fallacy Files

A nurse called Lucia de Berk has been in prison for 5 years in Holland, convicted of 7 counts of murder and 3 of attempted murder. An unusually large number of people died when she was on shift (…)
— Ben Goldacre, Bad Science

If I myself was only safe from fallacy.