December 2010
24 posts
Papa M: “Northwest Passage” from...
Assange is no more a “journalist” than he is a crypto mathematician. He’s a darkside hacker who is a self-appointed, self-anointed, self-educated global dissident. He’s a one-man Polish Solidarity, waiting for the population to accrete around his stirring propaganda of the deed. And they are accreting; not all of ‘em, but, well, it doesn’t take all of them.
Julian Assange doesn’t want to be in...
Design Patterns
A Stanford-affiliated Bangalore startup has designed a sleeping bag for premature infants with a heat-retaining wax pouch inside. The product has to operate without any assistance from trained technicians, so:
To make sure adults inserted the pouch into the heating unit the right way, Embrace shaped the pouch like a familiar object: the cellphone SIM card.
From Bruce Upbin at Forbes.com
“May 1975 It’s four in the morning, Hollywood time, and David Bowie is...”
– Cameron Crowe
I forget that Cameron Crowe was actually a rock writer.
“But we would do well to recall that traditional marriage is actually an...”
– James Poulos - A Word About Marriage - Ricochet.com
“Strauss and Schmitt are at the center of intellectual debate, but they are being...”
– China’s Strange Interest In Leo Strauss And Other Western Philosophers. | The New Republic
Autonomy and Poverty
We are living in a very interesting period in history, where the boundaries between work and play, and between productive and nonproductive activity, are becoming more and more fluid. Having the freedom to cross and recross that boundary is enormously valuable to an individual, and a society. But that freedom is not remotely evenly distributed. I hate to sound like some kind of socialist, but...
Palace Brothers: “Christmastime in the...
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Elvis Costello - Brilliant...
“Then, as now, the celebration of the idea of interactive writing was founded...”
– Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: Interactive storytelling: an oxymoron
“This kung fu approach shares a lot of insights with the Aristotelian virtue...”
– Kung Fu for Philosophers - NYTimes.com
Ken Parker’s version of Jimmy Brown.