Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
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What is the point to The Blog That Nobody Reads? And what is up with that name nobody can pronounce? Howssa Verra Toss The Knees? ‘Sup wif dat? How come it’s got that funny logo you see to the left?
The late Dr. Carl Sagan explains all. Well, not really, he didn’t know anything about The Blog That Nobody Reads. Doubtlessly, if he did he’d disapprove of much of what we say & do. But he tells the story about what the name really means, at least, what we have in mind for ourselves when we use it…
You see, Eratosthenes walked what is, today, a very fine line. He didn’t think like everybody else, but neither did he make a “grunge” fashion statement out of trying to think differently. He thought for himself and conducted himself according to The Oath.
He took note of something — in this case, a mundane detail that one would show perfectly sound judgment in not noticing at all. Something that didn’t mean anything until he pondered the ramifications, at which point it meant quite a bit more.
He used logic to eliminate possibilities. And then he used fairly simple mathematics to nail that sucker shut.
Scientist? Not really. We do know Eratosthenes had the training, but we also know his day job was as the administrator of a library. Which, back in those days, one might say was more-or-less the same thing. But my point stands — we call Eratosthenes a “scientist” because of what he did and how he thought things out, not because some accrediting institution saw fit to slap some kind of label on him.
Actually if that were the case, smart money says said institution would revoke such a seal of approval, or threaten to do so, the minute he published the findings Dr. Sagan is describing here.
The Blog That Nobody Reads strives to preserve a tradition of thinking…which is dying off. The kind of thinking where you look at things as they are and figure out what they mean for yourself. Simply put, nobody’s going to pop up behind your shoulder and tell you what keys to press. The kind of thinking that says life is a puzzle for you to solve, big-kid-style, without help. Peek into the water well, not at the paper belonging to the smarter kid sitting next to you.
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Hey! Thanks for the vid. Now I know how to pronounce “Eratosthenes” correctly! (I need examples, being the rather simple, monkey-see, monkey-do kinda guy I am.)
And apropos of nothing… I just love the rhythm, diction, and inflection(s) of Sagan’s speech. He caught a lot of flack back in the day when his stuff ran in prime-time for being “overly dramatic” in his speech, but I think all that criticism was misplaced, or was sour-grapes, or something like that. I’ve always wondered if this (as we see in the vid) was his normal way of speaking or was an affected “teevee” voice.
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- House of Eratosthenes | 12/16/2007 @ 09:17Yeah, gotta admit, I didn’t know how to pronouce Era toss the knees either until now. I won’t say what I thought it was. 🙂
I was a Carl Sagan fan as a teenager. Billions and billions of stars.
Anyway… that was a neat video, but you left one question unanswered … and that is…
What is that funny logo to the left?
- philmon | 12/18/2007 @ 16:27Dude…
…it’s a water well with the sun shining all the way down to the bottom. That’s been our logo back to day one.
- mkfreeberg | 12/18/2007 @ 17:04Cool!
Just wasn’t here on day one. I wonder where I was on day one? 😉
Kinda abstract, but I get it. Neat!
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