Linkage July 18th

Susan Haack disses Rorty. I might write something about this at some point.

Here's a series of posts written by James Macdonald, a science fiction writer and volunteer EMT, on emergency medicine. Informative and user-friendly.

Paleo-Future is a blog that chronicles the futures of the past. Very Gernsbackian.

Scott Rosenberg: "There is no 'first blogger'." He's very right. Also a nice little kick in the shins to Tom Wolfe at the bottom of the post.