<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-15"?><!-- generator="WordPress/2.9.1" -->
<rss version="0.92">
<channel>
	<title>rattus rattus' blog</title>
	<link>http://blog.rats.at</link>
	<description>where lies keep rotting away</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:22:40 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss092</docs>
	<language>en</language>
	
	<item>
		<title>The end, or so she thought</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend once tried to provoke with the following wonderful quote about what ends are:
The temporal structure of the end is determined by a twofold negation: The end is standing in the apex of not yet and not anymore. This marks a twofold verge which again is the function of an intentionality articulating itself as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.rats.at/578/the-timing-of-an-end</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Right ranking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Judgments express valuations (as in weightings).
They are a type of dichotomization.
Dichotomies are lies.
Judgments are worse.
Prejudices are the worst.
]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.rats.at/570/right-ranking</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Things just don&#8217;t work like that</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Borrowed from Good Winter, see the original work.

[G]
]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.rats.at/561/things-dont-work-like-this</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Oberserving myself . . .</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am observing.
I am observing myself.
I am observing myself observing myself.
I am observing myself observing myself observing myself.
. . . and so on and so forth . . .
I am observing myself observing myself &#8230; being lazy.
I am observing myself observing myself &#8230; being lazy observing myself.
. . .
[X]
]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.rats.at/550/oberserving-myself</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Changing assumptions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Change an assumption
and save the world.
&#8212; Heinz von Foerster, 1970

Quoted after Paul Schröder who 2009-11-14 at the Heinz von Foerster Congress 09 said he found this quote several times in his notes.
]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.rats.at/546/changing_assumption</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>The Big Red Button</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Big Red Button
]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.rats.at/544/the-big-red-button</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Liars are telling the truth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#62;&#160;&#62;&#160;Liars are telling the truth.
&#62;&#160;Liar!
See? I told you!
]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.rats.at/540/liars-are-telling-the-truth</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Who knows</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.rats.at/536/who-knows</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Turning together with/out words</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our only apparently unique invention is written language, and there&#8217;s lots of evidence that it&#8217;s the least effective form of communication we have, and the form most prone to misunderstanding
writes Dave Pollard in his recent blog post Turning Together Without Words.
]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.rats.at/533/turning-together-without-words</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>History of history</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The only thing we learn from history is that we do not learn from history.
(This quote and variations of it can be found easily.) Considering the fact that each and everyone seems to stumble over this insight sooner or later it could well be based on a wee bit of eternal truth. However, if it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.rats.at/530/history-of-history</link>
			</item>
</channel>
</rss>
