Thursday, June 06, 2013

Coachean Feed: semiotics, pistol-packin' ER, supererogatory acts, cowboys and noise

More links of interest to the debate community.
  • Sometimes very small changes can make a very big difference. It's all in the semiotics. Revamped disability icons coming to New York City
  • A marvel: Eleanor Roosevelt’s pistol licence. Who wants to get shot by an ex-First Lady?
  • I used to use a cap E on my flows to refer to arguments in rounds about supererogatory acts, finding this a unique abbreviation as nothing else regularly used an E, and it also reminded me how to spell the word correctly. Supererogation, Repetition and the Experience of Morning Coffee is a nice little piece on Super E and its transformation via repetition. (Do Super E acts ever come up in LD rounds anymore?)
  • Bibliokept is one of my favorite sites, for cartoons like this one:

  • If you've always scratched your head at the line in "Isn't It a Pity" that goes "My nights were sour / filled with Schopenhauer," why not find out why Herr S was quite unlikely to attach a music player to his sound-cancelling headphones: On Noise. (And if you've never heard the song "Isn't It a Pity," well, that really is a pity.)

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