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Howdy, pilgrim! No ads — you're in the ^zhurnal wiki, since 1999 musings on mind, method, metaphor, and matters miscellaneous, mostly by Mark Zimmermann aka ^z. See links at top and bottom of every page to browse, append or insert your own comments, edit, create new pages, and help add to this rather cluttered set of occasional Good Mistakes. (The Random link is especially fun!) To read things in linear order please visit http://zhurnaly.com.

What's it all about? Perhaps "... to create moments of philosophy — that is, to pass from opinion to thought." Less mystically, this is a wiki experiment. It includes thousands of brief essays, jokes, diary entries, poems, mini-lectures, whimsy, literary excerpts, and scraps of what-not. Call it a blog/weblog if you wish, though it antedates most such. See Zhurnal and Zhurnaly for additional meta-commentary on the enterprise, and Treasure Knowledge for hints on how to pronounce журнал. The word zhurnaly simply means journals in Russian; zhurnal is the singular.

There's plenty of room for more, so don't be shy about adding your own contributions within the bounds of good taste and civility — no advertisements, link spam, etc. are allowed. Contact me via z (at) his (dot) com to report bugs, suggest new thoughts, and comment on ^zhurnaly items if you prefer to do that via email rather than edit things directly. Thank you, and welcome!

What's New?

Ducky Rock Creek Trail ... Overcoming Bias ... Hot and Sour ... Shakespeare versus The Philosophers ... Peter Neumann ... Meaning of Blog ... Mystery Men ... Donald Knuth ... Steely Eyed Missile Man ... Sharp Focus ... Color of Water ... Normal Distribution ... Mostly Sane ... Joan Benoit Samuelson on the Marathon ... Bull Run Run 2008 ... John Archibald Wheeler ... Swimming Fine ... Nine Layers of Sky ...

Quick Start

For a good time, click the Random link at the top. To comment on a page, click the Comments on link at the bottom and start typing; when done click Save. Voilà!

You can edit most items via the "Edit this page" link at the bottom. Markup Syntax reveals how to do bold, italics, tables, images, headers, lists, etc. Spam Patrol tells how to easily remove garbage pages. See http://wikicreole.org for information about the standard Wiki markup used here. See http://oddmuse.org for information about the Wiki engine behind the curtain. Many thanks to Bo Leuf for getting me started with Wiki!