To Read

Stuff I've come across but haven't had the chance to read:

• Pareto's distribution via Rebecca

• Tipping Point article, also via Rebecca.

• Wendell Berry article, also from Rebecca.

• Atlantic Monthly article on computer-simulated societies. More.

• Small Pieces Loosely Joined. If they're loosely joined, why do all paths seem to lead to David's book lately?

• Wittgenstein, mentioned here and here.

• Globalization arguments linked from ALD.

• Lots of poetry (thanks to Joe Mahoney for the ref in his blog).

• Richard Posner

• WHEN WORDS FAIL: THE STRUGGLE TO DECIPHER THE WORLD’S MOST DIFFICULT BOOK "The lesson of the Voynich manuscript may ultimately be that the line between signal and noise, decipherment and delusion is a perilously fine one–so fine, in fact, that cryptanalytic hyperactivity can occasionally erase it."

• Karl Popper