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December 17 2011
Dear Congress, It's No Longer OK To Not Know How The Internet Works | Techdirt
"Other than that, I think we should just make it clear to elected officials that people won't tolerate them gleefully displaying ignorance on issues that they're about to vote on. When Rep. Mel Watt declares proudly that he doesn't understand the technology, and then says he just doesn't believe the huge group of internet engineers who warn about the negative impacts of SOPA, he shouldn't get a free pass on that. The public needs to let him know that that's unacceptable from an elected official. Things like this won't change overnight, but by making it clear that such things won't be tolerated by the voting public, we can at least start to influence the debate in a meaningful way. So speak up. When you see an elected official being purposely ignorant or cracking jokes about their ignorance tell them that they need to be educated and help them get that education."November 04 2011
The Infamous Brad - Nobody Will Ever Believe How We Got Here #OWS
"All this being said, I do think we're living in a very low probability time line, and probably have been since the peaceful dissolution of the USSR." --nancylebovAugust 23 2011
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December 11 2010
August 21 2010
IMDb :: Boards :: 10.5 (2004) :: Train/fault line
"What Would Jesus Do For A Klondike Bar (WWJDFAKB)?"July 26 2010
Language Log: Learning to Read in Dulkw'ahke
"In many countries the idea of having spelling competitions beyond the first year or two of primary school would be absurd. It is important for policy makers in English-speaking countries to realize that the agony of learning to read and write in English is not inherent but is the result of the combination of a complex and irregular writing system, poor teaching methods, and poorly trained teachers."July 13 2010
Sting to Perform at the Metropolitan Opera - NYTimes.com
“I have a feeling that all New Yorkers, no matter what they’re doing, are in their own TV series with their own theme music, and you are merely a guest on their show,” he said.March 02 2010
January 02 2010
December 03 2009
How much slack should we give thinkers? « Entitled to an Opinion
"I only mention this because the internet often seems weirdly like high school, made up of about 2000 people, most of whom you don’t know, but whom you see around, and with many of the same personalities popping up at whatever new party you drop in on, and enough cliquishness (or commonality of interest) that you venture off in what you think of as some new direction, and yet discover the same people you run across at Steve Sailer or Unqualified Reservations or Overcoming Bias sitting there on the sofa as you stroll into the room."November 10 2009
About Garza
Comparing Solution Building with Problem Solving Solution Building/Problem Solving "How did you do that?" / "Why did you do that?" Focus on the future without the problem / Emphasis on past with the problem Solution talk / Problem talk Attention on what is working/Attention on what is wrong Student is capable./Student is flawed. Student is source of solution./Teacher is source of solution. Teacher skilled at "not knowing."/Teacher is "all knowing." Frees teacher from responsibility for fixing the problem/Teacher accepts responsibility for fixing the problem. If it works, do more of it./Just keep using what you think should work until it. hopefully, does. Cooperation enhances change./Either the student or the teacher is solely responsible for correcting the problem. Students and parents should define the goals -- they are (or can be) the experts./The teacher should define the goals because they are the "experts." Change is inevitable./People cannot change.October 29 2009
How Palm Lost (Like Apple in the 80s) - Palm pre - Gizmodo
"It's like a trojan horse, but with candy inside."September 07 2009
3 Geeks and a Law Blog: It's "Not" The End Of The World - And I Feel Well Rested
"If someone has made themselves indispensable or [irreplaceable], then you need to fire them."August 24 2009
Puzzle Pirates Forums - View Thread - Feedback for the Department of the Treasure
"Sorry to say, we are not playing Yohoho! Spreadsheet Merchants!"April 03 2009
"Marx was Right!" - Boing Boing
The idea of economic value is too multi-valent and arises in too many differing situations(IMO) to be amenable to a "one-size-fits-all" theory (similar to attempted 'general' definitions of property: in the final analysis, "property" is what others allow as one to treat as "property"). Functional definitions may come closest to capturing all the particular examples of either 'value' or 'property': but IMHO any general definition of these words will miss some instances. In addition, I am not convinced that such general definitions are of any analytical or synthetical use. How would a general definition of "value" or "property" help in understanding the economy? From what I see, such exercises serve to "bake-in" assumptions: which defeats the very end of the inquiry, at the outset. A political debating trick.March 14 2009
Secret super-copyright treaty MEMO leaked - Boing Boing
"Honestly, it's becoming clearer and clearer that the entertainment industry is an existential threat to the idea of free speech, open tools, and an open communications network." - Cory DoctorowFebruary 17 2009
Amen break - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"a six-second clip that spawned several entire subcultures"EVE Search - Arkanons News Item on the recent allegations of developer misconduct
"their personal drama llama is on the loose"Slashdot | Towards a Wiki For Formally Verified Mathematics
"Although, as they say, you can't reason someone out of a position if they never reasoned themselves into it in the first place."
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