The new trend among video gamers appear to be making video game reviews in the form of bile-overflowing, yet extremely witty films. One of these reviewers goes by the supremely unfortunate moniker “Yahtzee”, who presents a new review each week under the title Zero Punctuation, which subtly hints that the main trademark of the reviews [...]
The question that philosophers have pondered since the beginning of time is: “What is philosophy, and how do I make money off it?” Philosophy is a Greek word, which means “love of wisdom”. But philosophers, ever argumentative as they are, can’t agree what loving wisdom actually means, so they can only give tentative answers. But [...]
When January comes, the blogosphere is awash with self-reflection: “What did the past year bring? What does the new year promise? How do I plan to do things differently from now on? How will things develop in the continuing story that is me, me, me?” And much like everybody else, I have been reflecting on [...]
Last year, I went to Italy, and had the opportunity to visit the Uffizi museum in Florence. Since then, I’ve been meaning to highlight some of the best paintings I saw there for others to enjoy and comment upon. I’ve dug out some pictures of said paintings, and though they have only a fraction of [...]
I suspect you think that this is an awfully pompous title for a blog post, or a film, or a book. And in a way it is. It is French, and means “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”. And it is the title of both a book and a film. And their subject matter are [...]