The fallacy of success. • Mustapha Abiola
Excerpted from All things Considered by G. K. Chesterton, from an edition by John Lane Company, New York, 1909. There has appeared in our time a particular class of books and articles, which I sincerely and solemnly think may be called the... | Mustapha Abiola | Abstract artist. Concrete Analyst.
Hasnain says:
Or suppose that in the course of his intellectual rambles the philosopher of Success dropped upon our other case, that of playing cards, his bracing advice would run–”In playing cards it is very necessary to avoid the mistake (commonly made by maudlin humanitarians and Free Traders) of permitting your opponent to win the game. You must have grit and snap and go in to win. The days of idealism and superstition are over. We live in a time of science and hard common sense, and it has now been definitely proved that in any game where two are playing IF ONE DOES NOT WIN THE OTHER WILL.”
Posted on 2013-10-08T09:21:20+0000
Mugged by a Mug Shot Online
Web sites are publishing arrest photos of millions of Americans and often charging fees to remove the pictures.
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Posted on 2013-10-06T12:45:43+0000
Desert Hike EX | Twinbeard Studios
You and your coworkers just finished your IPO! Rolling in cash, you decide to attend Burning Man. However, unscrupulous bandits at the burn steal your car and drive away, with all your Bitcoins in the back seat! With only the backup Bitcoins you kept in your sock, you're going to have to hike all th...
Swiss to vote on 2,500 franc basic income for every adult
BERNE (Reuters) - Switzerland will hold a vote on whether to introduce a basic income for all adults, in a further sign of growing public activism over pay inequality since the financial crisis.A grassroots
Why Do We Eat Popcorn at the Movies?
The movie theater's most popular concession wasn't always associated with the movies--in fact, it used to be explicitly banned
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Posted on 2013-10-05T18:10:05+0000
You say Twitter, I say Tweeter: Investor mix-up?
A bankrupt electronics retailer appears to have gotten caught up in the investor fervor for Twitter. Shares of Tweeter Home Entertainment Group Inc. rose as high as 15 cents Friday. That's up 1,400 percent ...
Center Of The Universe
I read something on the internet one recent evening that made a brief and tangential reference to a serial killer preying on Marines in Southern
Hover! by Internet Explorer
Play the remake of the classic capture-the-flag game originally created for Windows 95 and updated to celebrate WebGL in Internet Explorer 11.
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Ah, nostalgia.
They even replicated the bug where the bot gets stuck in a wall.
Posted on 2013-10-02T22:18:47+0000
The Indian and his insatiable appetite for the college degree
I’m the only person in my fairly large extended circle who didn’t end up having a formal college education I started my…
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Posted on 2013-09-30T10:21:42+0000
Looks good on paper
DISGUISED as employees of a gas company, a team of policemen burst into a flat in Beijing on September 1st. Two suspects inside panicked and tossed a plastic bag...
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Posted on 2013-09-29T17:22:15+0000