It’s been a year since I updated my list of archived treasures. Although this experiment didn’t last long, I still keep a link to my favorite posts from the archives in my footer. For the benefit of new and old readers alike, and especially for myself, here’s an update. Like I did last time around, I encourage everyone reading this, if you have a blog, to do the same: show us what gems your archive holds, because realistically — this is sad, but true — we’re not going to go looking for gold ourselves. We’re going to read your first page and move on, unless you direct us in the right direction.
- Metaethics, a relatively short intro.
- My mythical uncle.
- Rainbow. (Made me smile, anyway.)
- In Praise of Shadows, on Japanese aesthetics.
- The most definite and fundamental of my posts about linguistic determinism. (I’ve made a few of them.)
- A piece on taste.
- Balanced ternary, Knuth’s favorite.
- Euthyphro in irc.
- Lives aren’t art.
- The lens blog is in.
- A review of Crewdson’s Beneath the Roses.
- Phantom city.
- Folk beliefs, taken literally.
- Anonymity: a defense.
- Empathy comes in many kinds and guises.
- Mysteries.
- Metaphysics as fiction.
- “†I’m serious.†” In which irony forces me to invent new punctuation.
- Jorge Luis Borges’s only novel.
- Fun (!) with morphosyntactic alignment.
- Correlation implies causation. Really.
- Lucid screaming.
- Today: feeling a little ambivalent about it, but I did pour a lot of myself into this theory of identity.
- 33 stories that don’t exceed 50 words.
- Moments that people are in.
- Outdoing infinity: my attempt at explaining Cantor’s diagonal proof.
- My script for a proposed Special Dispatch that was, for some reason, rejected by all major online and broadcast channels. About life in liberal godless utopia.
- I keep getting hits to this: it’s a list of maxims about simplicity. That I didn’t write, only quoted. It is probably the most popular of my archived treasures, and it’s someone else’s. Ouch. But still, I like it enough that it gets a spot on this list.
- Kowloon.
- Old age.
- Mock us gently.
- In which I give advice about popularity and awesomeness.
- Intelligence.
- There’s something about photography.
- Creative gravity from the 18th century.
That’s a lot, but it’s a tiny percentage of everything I’ve published in the last three years. Now it’s your turn. Show me something great that’s been collecting dust rather than hits on page 24 of your blog for far too long, something that — let’s face it — is far better than what’s on page 1.
Sep 27, 2010
