by zen | Jan 10, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] The Independent has a short, quasi-sensationalist, article featuring historian Margaret MacMillan discussing what is likely to become the first pop academic cottage industry of 2014….making historical analogies about...
by Charles Cameron | Sep 19, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — at the intersection of filmcraft, tradecraft, and gameplay ] . ** IBM Fellow Jeff Jones has a powerful insight into puzzles and analytics which I explored in one of my early guest posts here, A Hipbone Approach to Analysis III. I quoted...
by Charles Cameron | Jul 25, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — comments on two posts by Chris Anzalone aka Ibn Siqilli ] . I’m bringing across two comments of mine from DoubleQuotes in the wild and making a separate post out of them — to give them more exposure, to emphasize the importance...
by Charles Cameron | May 22, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — cross-posted from Sembl ] . You don’t have to be playing a Sembl or Hipbone game to make a great Sembl move — you just have to see a rich semblance between two concepts in (previously) widely separated fields of thought. Thus...
by Charles Cameron | Sep 30, 2012 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — the symbolic importance of Mullah Omar with the cloak of the Prophet, comparative, frankly long, and IMO worth it ] . Mullah Omar in Kandahar; Elijah & Elisha from the Nuremberg Chronicle. I would like to give you a sense of the...