February 2012
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January 2012
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December 2011
7 posts
Frank Chimero: A Series of Ill-Informed Hunches... →
viafrank:
I don’t think I’ve heard anyone say “none of your business” in the past 10 years. This is either because social media has deteriorated our sense of entitlement to privacy, we all lust after visibility now, or my manners have gotten better. I can not decide.
The word inception will soon be a…
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November 2011
3 posts
An Incomplete List of Small Pleasures
viafrank:
Referring to friends and family by the first letter of their first name.
Sound of passing traffic without horns or sirens. Just whooshes.
Folk tales.
Bridges—rivers, noses, ships, songs.
Believing that things other than buildings can have architecture.
Rereading.
Life would still be pretty good even if this was the complete list. I could probably muster the will to live even if...
October 2011
8 posts
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Austin Comic Con →
OK, so we’ve got tickets to Austin Comic Con and we’re going to go. We will not dress up as anyone but anonymous nerds, but we will greatly enjoy seeing anyone who has the gumption to become someone else for a weekend.
“All the world’s great suffering comes from the fact that kings do not know how...”
– Blaise Pascal (via eudaimonist)
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September 2011
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The Local-global Flip →
longformorg:
The idea that people would “inexpensively have access to a tremendous global computation and networking facility” was supposed to create wealth and wellbeing. Has it instead created a technologically advanced dystopia?
Jaron Lanier | EDGE | Aug 2011
This is a great talk by Jaron Lanier. His book, You Are Not A Gadget, discussed similar themes, but his points are so worthy of...
August 2011
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WatchIf you invite me to your wedding, I reserve the right to do this.
BART Disables Cell Phone Service
rentzsch:
San Francisco BART:
BART temporarily interrupted [cell phone] service at select BART stations as one of many tactics to ensure the safety of everyone on the platform.
I’m glad this happened — it provides real-world evidence to the extent mainstream communication channels operate at the whim of nameless bureaucrats.
All centralization introduces choke points. Choke points have...
July 2011
3 posts
June 2011
5 posts
Tree of Life
I think it’s going to seep into me over time, when I think about it for a minute here and there. It also had lots of dogs and dinosaurs.
