Archives for 2010
Tweet “My life has always somehow been played out in a minor key, unresolved. Art somehow resolves things for me. Through art, you create your own world.” – Daphne Guinness
Tweet To the social philosopher, the intersection of practice and talent poses a general question about agency: we are minded to believe that engagement is better than passivity. The pursuit of quality is also a matter of agency, the craftsman’s driving motive. But agency does not happen in a social or emotional vacuum, particularly good-quality [...]
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Tweet “People react to fear, not love. They don’t teach that in Sunday school, but it’s true.” – Richard Nixon
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Tweet Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, applauded Congress’s action. He and Gates were among the civilian and active-duty military leaders who had rallied for the change. “It is the right thing to do,” he said in a statement. “No longer will able men and women who want to serve and [...]
Tweet I’m not sayin, I’m just sayin. When you enter phrases into the Google Books Ngram Viewer, it displays a graph showing how those phrases have occurred in a corpus of books (e.g., “British English”, “English Fiction”, “French”) over the selected years (source)
Tweet Redden tells a story of a young Malcolm Forbes traveling on an ocean liner with his family to Scotland. He put his favorite toy boat on a long string and put it down into the turbulent ocean to sail behind the huge liner. “And needless to say,” says Redden, “the boat was never seen [...]
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Tweet As usual, Clay Shirky nails the conflicted nature of the wikileaks issue for the US on his blog. From the post: “The key, though, is that democracies have a process for creating such restrictions, and as a citizen it sickens me to see the US trying to take shortcuts. The leaders of Myanmar and [...]
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Tweet “It’s things I’m encountering, but for the sake of encountering them… I don’t expect someone to look at this and have any particular sense of what I did in my life.” – Stephen Shore
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Tweet NOTE: This is a cross post. Please comment on the Houston Chronicle More Breasts Less Violence Post. I have mentioned before, half jokingly, that part of the problem with the media is that we need “more breasts and less violence.” As a parent of three children, I find it disturbing that CSI can show [...]
Tweet Colbert: “But the first amendment only covers journalists. That’s freedom of the press. Who’s Assange to say he’s a journalist… There are certain things that the public should not know. That’s what we elect a government for; to act in secret with complete impunity. Then later we’ll find out whether we liked it.’ Ellsberg: ”That’s one [...]
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Tweet It is strange that we live in a time when the US Govt can’t keep secrets, that an Australian is more hunted than Osama Bin Laden, and that an anonymous operation can take down visa. Indeed the future of web press is up in the air. May you live in interesting times my friend, [...]
Tweet Worth a read on wikileaks Wikileaks, the World’s First Stateless News Organization Ask yourself: Why didn’t Wikileaks just publish the Afghanistan war logs and let journalists ‘round the world have at them? Why hand them over to The New York Times, the Guardian and Der Spiegel first? Because as Julien Assange, founder of Wikileaks, [...]
Tweet The target was seemingly impenetrable; for security reasons, it lay several stories underground and was not connected to the World Wide Web. And that meant Stuxnet had to act as sort of a computer cruise missile: As it made its passage through a set of unconnected computers, it had to grow and adapt to [...]
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Tweet Jesse – Michael ruined your life got you fired he was trying to do a good thing so get over it. Michael? – Jesse shot you in the chest he was trying to save your life deal with it I’m not talking about closure I’m talking about good old fashioned gutting it out You [...]
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