On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:25 AM, kirby urner <kirby.ur...@gmail.com> wrote:
<< trim >> ADDENDUM: > > [0] http://archives.free.net.ph/message/20090831.140043.d7465e01.en.html > I acknowledge in advance that some here may send up a red flag re my citing of a post by Xah Lee. The late Arthur Siegel mentioned him a ways back in this archive, asking if I knew him (answer: not yet). http://mail.python.org/pipermail/edu-sig/2006-September/007247.html http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2009-March/172547.html But then both Arthur and I have had our share of detractors, so it's not my place, as a teapot, to call the kettle black. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080107065526AAOSeeK (explaining the idiom). Kirby PS: I see Xah really likes Abbott's 'Flatland', which I do as social satire, but then I think it's been over-used to pump up certain brands of shamanism within the math-physics community (yes, that's a provocative way of putting it, which Juan rightly questioned -- did my best to explain here): http://groups.google.com/group/mathfuture/msg/776d6b1dc2c526c5?hl=en _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig