Posted by Blinky the Shark on 06/11/07 07:12

Ben C wrote:
> On 2007-06-11, dorayme <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>> In article <slrnf6pctg.4ka.no.spam@thurston.blinkynet.net>,
>> Blinky the Shark <no.spam@box.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
>>> > dorayme wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> "Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous@example.invalid> wrote:
>>> >>> Do not use any flavor of <br> for line breaks, except
>>> >>> perhaps in poetry.
>>> >>
>>> >> Is this not too severe? For example, on some occasions with
>>> >> pictures, there is nothing wrong with using <br> to make a
>>> >> comment or caption appear underneath the picture.
>>> >
>>> > There are exceptions to every rule. <g>
>>>
>>> The exception to that rule is that some rules have no exceptions. :)
>>
>> Actually, this is quite an interesting idea, as in paradoxical
>> (as in it makes the head hurt thinking about it).
>
> It's a good one. I think it's called a Goedel sentence.

Anyone in here ever read Doug Hofstadter's "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An
Eternal Golden Braid"? It's what got me into computers/computing as a
hobby, way back. And what actually got me thinking, again, after I'd
been out of college for a while. More than when I'd been *in* college,
come to think of it.

http://tal.forum2.org/geb

http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/kenny/papers/godel.html

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