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<A href=http://www.newyorker.com/humor/issuecartoons/2009/01/19/cartoons_20090112?slide=2#showHeader>(From next Monday’s New Yorker magazine.)</a>

I’ve been receiving several text messages in the middle of the night from an Ithaca phone number that I don’t recognise. To be clear, the messages are coming in the middle of the night in Australia, where I am. They may be being sent at a normal hour from Ithaca.

The messages look like they are spam, not intentionally sent messages. But they are listed as coming from the phone number 229-4563. If that’s your phone, then you may have some kind of virus that’s sending out spam messages. You might want to do something about this so you don’t run up a huge phone bill. And so I won’t be woken by my phone going off in the middle of the night.

Happy New Year everyone!  Here are a few links of interest.

• There’s an interesting discussion following a post on Gowers’s Weblog asking how one of a pair of equivalent statements can be ‘stronger’ than the other. 
• A second graduate conference on the philosophy of logic and mathematics will take place in Cambridge on 17-18 January.  For the schedule, pop over to Nothing of Consequence.
• Finally, there’s a workshop on alethic pluralism at Arche next weekend  that looks like fun. 

Addendum:
Another link of interest.  JC Beall has a budding blog called B-log.