When confronted by a difficult problem, you can solve it more easily by reducing it to the question, “How would the Lone Ranger have handled this?”
Brady
Posts tagged law
Boren’s Laws
(1) When in charge, ponder.
(2) When in trouble, delegate.
(3) When in doubt, mumble.
Arnold laws of documentation
- If it should exist, it doesn’t.
- If it does exist, it’s out of date.
- Only documentation for useless programs transcends the first two laws.
Yale is making available new courses
The guys at Open culture (full article here) tell us that “[...] This week, Yale University rolled out its latest batch of open courses. This release, the first since October 2009, features 10 new courses, and brings the total number to 35. Find the complete list here. [...]”
Here are the complete links for all available media thanks to Open culture.
- Capitalism: Success, Crisis and Reform – iTunes Video – iTunes Audio – YouTube – Web Site – Douglas W. Rae
- Cervantes’ Don Quixote - iTunes Video – iTunes Audio – YouTube –Web Site – Roberto González Echevarría
- Early Modern England: Politics, Religion, and Society under the Tudors and Stuarts – iTunes Video – iTunes Audio – YouTube –Web Site – Keith E. Wrightson
- Environmental Politics and Law - iTunes Video – iTunes Audio- YouTube – Web Site – John P. Wargo
- Epidemics in Western Society Since 1600 – iTunes Video – iTunes Audio – YouTube – Web Site – Frank Snowden
- Financial Theory – iTunes Video – iTunes Audio – Web Site – John Geanakoplos
- Foundations of Modern Social Theory - iTunes Video - iTunes Audio - YouTube - Web Site – Iván Szelényi
- Fundamentals of Physics II - iTunes Video – iTunes Audio – Web Site – Ramamurti Shankar
- The American Revolution – iTunes Video - iTunes Audio - Web Site– Joanne B. Freeman
- The Moral Foundations of Politics - iTunes Video – iTunes Audio –YouTube – Web Site – Professor Ian Shapiro
Law of debate
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Green
First Law of hacking
Leaving is much more difficult than entering.
Anonymous
Finagles laws (2,3 and 4)
Second Law: No matter what the anticipated result, there will always be someone eager to (a) misinterpret it, (b) fake it, or (c ) believe it happened according to his own pet theory.
Third Law: In any collection of data, the figure most obviously correct, beyond all need of checking, is the mistake
Fourth Law: Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it only makes it worse.
Finagle
Law of highway biology
The first bug to hit a clean windshield lands directly in front of your eyes.
Drew
Zimmerman’s law of complaints
Nobody notices when things go right.
Anonymous
Finds
Boob’s Law: You always find something in the last place you look.
Boob
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