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So I only just discovered the Tomlin Rule

By tigtog on 2017-02-06

The quote is about trying to stay informed by reading the newspapers, and seems to embody my own attempts at self-preservation in a world where duplicitous absurdities constantly gain more traction than rigorously scrutinised realities.

Argument is the human condition, but public argument is not (until the Internet arrived)

By tigtog on 2012-11-04 • ( 2 )

A fascinating long post from Clay Shirky on the information age’s transformation of the media landscape, via @Colvinius who referenced it as part of his 2012 Andrew Olle Media Lecture.

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I missed this back in 1995: quick facts about that McDonalds Coffee lawsuit

By tigtog on 2012-07-05 • ( 7 )

It would be nice to think that there weren’t still ignorant twerps repeating the idea that the lawsuit was unfounded/frivolous/a grave miscarriage against a poor defenceless megacorporation/harrumph/wharrgarbl, but sadly there still are.