A true intellectual is a man who, after reading a book and being convinced by its arguments, will shoot someone or, more likely, order someone shot.
- John McCarthy
For some reason, I found this really funny today. See many more prescient and contrarian quotes from the inventor of the most historically important and controversial programming language of all time.
Somehow, I've managed to destroy two hard-drives recently, and in the process lost a small but significant collection of writing, mostly stuff that I was planning to publish here. As things fell...
What does time to market really mean? Beyond face value, Time to Twitter sets up a grotesque caricature of the real evolution of Twitter as an idea. Going by the original sketches, Twitter was conceived...
Recently, I've been talking a lot about freeing the internet in Wellington by spreading excess bandwidth from various 'net connections across a city-wide mesh. But this is a best case scenario compared...
Still hard to believe that I actually witnessed this. One of the highlights was the band taking to the prelude from Bach's Cello Suite in free jazz fashion - completely unexpected and completely amazing,...
In: jazz music wellington
Nova Spivack, of Twine fame, has come out with an interesting blog post questioning whether our ‘junk’ DNA (the 97% of our DNA that doesn’t code for amino acids) could be a more effective storage...
I'vebeen thinking of Fermi's Paradox since I saw the documentary film A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash, with its dire predictions of the wars and disruptions that could occur on the downward slope...
Last fall, Hiyam Hijazi-Omari and Rivka Ribak presented a paper called "Playing With Fire: On the domestication of the mobile phone among Palestinian teenage girls in Israel" at AOIR. They studied...
Acrude JavaScript implementation of the first stage of Super Mario Brothers has been making the rounds today. It's roughly playable but misses many key aspects (no mushrooms, no flag, no one-ups,...
The Sesquipedalist doesn't review buildings, but instead looks at them through the mediation of the page in order to learn how the profession constructs the image of itself and consequently creates...
ClayShirky has posted a transcript of his Web 2.0 talk "Gin, Television, and Social Surplus." In it Shirky argues that television was the safety valve that society used to sponge up all the excess...
