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from earideas.com comes the earideas wednesday picks, three great bits of audio from the past week. this week:
some wacky quantum science, a good old fashioned podcast with every quirk you might like, and an onion report that made me laugh out loud.
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tragedy of the commons vs tragedy to anti-commons [Link]
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I started writing about this ages ago, but have not finished yet… but in a discussion with Michael, the idea came up again, and I wrote a long comment there, which I’ll reproduce here (slightly redacted): *** my theory of morality is this: moral ideas are cultural constructs that sink or swim based on their ability to “improve” lives & ... [Link]
Jargony text & talk drives me crazy. I wrote previously pleading with you, dear readers, never to use the word “utilize” when all you mean is “use.” This stuff infects the pages and html of techies, marketing people and academics, and unsuspecting citizens as well. It’s contagious and dangerous. I am going to do my part. I’ve decided to take ... [Link]
from identi.caFrom Usenet, circa 1991 [Link via Karl]: From: timbl@info .cern.ch (Tim Berners-Lee) Newsgroups: alt.hypertext Subject: WorldWideWeb: Summary Date: 6 Aug 91 16:00:12 GMT In article I promised to post a short summary of the …
I just spoke with someone in the publishing business about the discouraging state of Canadian fiction. Not the writing, but the business side. I’m not sure what has happened in the rest of the world, …
Here are the abouts from my twitter friends: i podcast and create junk for a living Indie Music and Fun UX & Web developer from Poutine land. Dopplr CTO. If you follow me, consider starting off with an @mattb …
Humans are gone. The city remains. 23 Skidoo is a beautiful and chilling 1964 short, by Julian Biggs, from the NFB’s beta screening room. Wonderful sound track (Kathleen Shannon and Ted Haley) to go …
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January 9, 2008 at 11:29 pm
hugh
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