http://www.alfrehn.com/blog Let's just call it a blog for now (once upon a time, this was called Nasty Scholar). Tue, 13 May 2008 05:21:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en By way of boingboing I today learnt that SMS-texting is about four times as expensive as getting data from Hubble. In other words, phone companies are fleecing us all. Goes some way to explain my phone bills, no way towards helping to pay for them. http://www.alfrehn.com/blog/2008/05/13/now-thats-a-possibly-immoral-business-model/ So here I am, feeling like refried dog carcass, sitting outside my house in sweatpants and a jacket from Sand, bashing out the final 500 words on a little chapter for the book Mats Börjesson and I are writing on power. My son just brought me an ice-cream, which was ... http://www.alfrehn.com/blog/2008/05/05/scenes-from-an-odd-life/ After Creativity (a fragment, full chapter forthcoming in a book I'm editing with Niina Koivunen) Creativity, After the Ball Can creativity keep its luster? In five or ten or fifteen years, will we still sing the same praises? The contemporary fascination for the concept, coupled with an almost religious belief in ... http://www.alfrehn.com/blog/2008/05/04/a-fragment-of-a-chapter-i-just-finished/ Check out the fan group for iPod and Philosophy! And yes, I have a chapter in the book... http://www.alfrehn.com/blog/2008/05/02/finally-something-worthwhile-on-facebook/ Alf Rehn MARX’S LAUGHTER Frivolity and economic reason I. Economy, it seems, is no laughing matter. Economy, it seems, is the real deal, the serious matters, the no-frills package. Where economics is the dismal science, business studies is obviously the serious science, the research of that which is done for a reason. And the ... http://www.alfrehn.com/blog/2008/05/02/marxs-laughter-final-version/ I've not kept my blogging up. The good part is that I have kept (at least some of) my writing up. http://www.alfrehn.com/blog/2008/05/01/so-busy/ A lecture I did at ESBRI - Föreläsningsreferat (in Swedish). http://www.alfrehn.com/blog/2008/04/11/dont-think-i-ever-uploaded-this/ The Village Bicycle's Wednesday One-Liners: Girl: I need to up my sex number. I either wanna sleep with a professor or a celebrity. (long pause) Wait! Professors are like celebrities!--72nd and AmsterdamOverheard by: Vincent (Via Overheard in New York.) http://www.alfrehn.com/blog/2008/04/09/the-best-thing-anyone-has-said-on-overheard-in-new-york/ One of the guys at orgtheory.net talking about his mac switch, rattling off his newly found benefits, ending with: And, yes, Kieran, given the switch to a mac I do now ‘dress better, sparkle in conversation and [to my wife's chagrin I have] become more attractive to women and the envy ... http://www.alfrehn.com/blog/2008/04/07/this-is-what-im-talking-about/ Just read the writer Rupert Smith on his lucrative porn-lit sideline, and couldn't help but smile at this perfect image of our economic age. The serious author taking on a secret gay porn persona, and outsells himself... http://www.alfrehn.com/blog/2008/04/05/writers-sideline/