Objects of Desire™

The Observer's Cell Phone

Fringe, episode "August"

Fall 2009

A terrific bit of prop design from an episode of Fringe a few weeks ago. The Observer's phone looks like a cross between the Bang and Olufsen Serene mobile and a military field compass as manufactured on another planet in 1958.

Obviously I want one.

Like Brittle Things Will Break Before They Turn

Winter, 1979

West Second Avenue

Lenoir City, Tennessee

Production and Decay of Strange Particles

The Truth Is A Revolutionary Act

...The second virtue is relinquishment. P. C. Hodgell said: “That which can be destroyed by the truth should be.” Do not flinch from experiences that might destroy your beliefs. The thought you cannot think controls you more than thoughts you speak aloud."

From "Twelve Virtues of Rationality"

Eliezer Yudkowsky

http://yudkowsky.net/