Category: Douglas Adams
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Doctorow Did It!
As I was catching up on my usual Web comics this morning (which were really on fire this week–see links in sidebar at right), I was especially amused by a thought that occurred to me when reading Wednesday’s xkcd. If you’ve seen Cory Doctorow’s excellent essay “Wikipedia: A Genuine H2G2—Minus the Editors” in the mostly…
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…What To Leave Out
I got a hat tip from the Freakonomics blog today in reference to a recent post about the Wikipedia article for “real life.” The post accepts the premise that fantasy and reality are complements rather than substitutes (a position Contraria Sunt Complementa naturally supports), and it zeros in on Robin Hanson’s pro-complement point that “fiction…