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Subjects of matter

Sunday, February 8th, 2009

Cartoon by Hugh Macleod “People matter. Objects don’t,”he wrote on an object,with a liar’s smileon his face.

Quality counts

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

There is this wonderful short German phrase about quality being more important than quantity: Qualität zählt! Transcribed into English it reads: Quality counts! Of course, in English, one could wittily say “Quality matters!” Though, if you search the web for these treasures of linguistic and logical quality you will find similar quantities of texts stating […]

The way out

Monday, December 15th, 2008

[Ratta is looking for a way out — not in.]

A soft cut

Sunday, November 16th, 2008

For those who know what science means in its very original sense it is obvious that the exact sciences are at least the lesser of two evils. No one wants contused lacerations. [E] [w] [X]

Try a secret

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

If there were secrets do they need to be secrets? If a secret does not need to be a secret it will not be a secret anymore. I believe in secrets which is why I do not try to reveal them. Is this why magicians never reveal their tricks? Magicians’ tricks are their reality. Moreover, […]

Tolerance

Tuesday, December 25th, 2007

If you really want to be tolerant the first thing you have to learn is to tolerate intolerance; your very own as much as others, and not any less our world’s confinement. [X]

T-shirts

Sunday, May 6th, 2007

ratTus rattUs co-maintains contradicTshirts, a collection of (mostly) “T-Shirts for the conshirtiously contradicTshirty“. Some designs are inspired by postings at rattus rattus’ blog, thus there is also a series of rattus rattus’ shirts: The dichoTomizer WRONG but wrong Simply wrong

Black-and-white categories

Friday, November 3rd, 2006

Black-and-white categories will lead us nowhere.