Annalena AaronsBorn: 25 June 2005, 4.33amWeight: 3.9 kg Length: 51 cm
Phew!
All her photos are in a big photo album.
(But probably won’t appear here, unlike these ex-neighbours of ours).

For those of you keenly following my greatest distraction, Jacqui is now officially two weeks overdue. She’s feeling fine, and all the signs are good (good amniotic fluid index, no signs of foetal distress), but there has been pressure on us to induce labour at this point.
Meanwhile, I’ve been reading Mark Burgman’s new book, Risks […]

View from Nowhere makes some interesting observations about a recent opinion piece by Deakin University academic James McConvill in the SMH. On its own, this article just seems like a bit of a diatribe about the current state of academia in Australia. But when you look at the original version of the article it becomes […]

Just a quick one today, following up yesterday’s thoughts on trust. One thing that worried me about the Kosfeld et al study had to do with their idea of what trust consisted of. For them, trust involves a behavioural interaction between people, that incorporates a degree of risk. This is a point emphasised by Karen […]

Apologies for so few KM-related blog entries over the past few weeks. I’ve been a tad preoccupied: trying to finish a conference paper before the new distraction arrives (any day!); breaking in a new PC at work (no more random crashes!); and whiling away evenings watching an assortment of films (thanks for the loan Glenn).
Between […]

I don’t have a US$20 handy to verify this, but it does seem like an interesting distraction for conspiracy theorists.
[Thanks to News from Nowhere]

Professor of Philosophy V. Alan White, from University of Wisconsin Colleges, Manitowoc, Wisconsin, has composed some witty philosophy songs.
The following parodies are offered in the hope that philosophers, while deservedly known for serious devotion to the search for truth, also will forever treasure the Socratic levity of the Symposium. Not that you’ll encounter that sort […]

As written about in The Age/SMH, check out Tom Compagnoni’s “regurgitated manifestation of captured sounds” at http://www.waxaudio.com.au/

We watched the third and final Ginger Snaps film last night, and I must admit I found it fairly disappointing after the first two.

If you find yourself at a loose end web-wise, it may be worth checking out these “top” lists.
(1) The Greatest Philosopher
Via TAR comes this BBC radio survey on who is the greatest philosopher? Unfortunately nominations have now closed, but if I had my say I’d probably have to go for Aristotle. But I expect he’ll […]