Over the couple weeks, I have had three web projects: fixing the email contact function in the sidebar, getting a cycling log, and finding a better way of getting digital photos published. The latter two ideas were vaguely connected.
The British publisher Icon Books has a series called Introducing .... The books are heavily illustrated, and tend to present in the style of graphic novels instead of conventional texts. I checked out Introducing Critical Theory, by Stuart Sim, illustrated by Borin Van Loon.
Another new article on happiness studies, linked by AL Daily, from the online magazine Cato Unbound, called Are We Happy Yet? The Cato Institute, from its own Web page, seems to be a libertarian, probably right-wing body, which partially explains their disagreement with Richard Layard's book Happiness: Lessons from a New Science. Layard is a New Labour academic, whose book advocates the idea “Happiness should become the goal of policy, and the progress of national happiness should be measured and analyzed as closely as the growth of GNP.”
Last Friday, at some point after I had dressed and started walking to work, my right hand went strange. I had no strength, and I could not bend my fingers and hit the keys on a keyboard, or manage mouse buttons. I couldn't double-click, and my attempts to single click turned into spastic clenches of all the buttons. The diagnosis seems to be carpal tunnel syndrome, and it has improved.
This story starts with The Dawkins Delusion, a parody, which I found in Edge 202.
