November 2011
43 posts
“This approach to versioning means that nearly all modules should be...”
– the node.js aesthetic :: The Universe of Discord
I feel like there are magical real-world applications of this concept.
Nirvana - “Oh the Guilt”
Best...
“People love telling war stories: Because we mostly purchase cheaply manufactured...”
– Black Friday Shopping Is Like War, That’s Why We Love It
by Michael Brendan Dougherty
Democracy in Chinese Philosophy
macroresilience:
From A.C. Graham’s magisterial work ‘Disputers of the Tao’ (emphasis mine):
No one questions that government is by nature authoritarian; if an alternative is seen to rule by legitimate force it is the abolition or minimisation of government, leaving people to organise their affairs by custom. There are theoretical anarchists in ancient China, but no democrats.
Original Article
Watch“Icy Cave Dancers” by Breathe Owl Breathe
“The questioners at the debate featured a rogues’ gallery of Bush-era...”
– NYMag.com
“Simply making fun of Thomas L. Friedman’s writing style is not enough to expose...”
– The Simpletons - Reason Magazine
It’s also fun, and conducive to solidarity across otherwise insurmountable political barriers. But as Welch goes on to explain, when we make fun of Friedman, we are still just scooping up the candy that fell out when Matt Taibbi whacked the Friedman pinata in...
“Child-rearing is basically stick stuck in a kind of dark ages of artisanal...”
– Matt Yglesias, The Bleak Economics Of Parenting (via pegobry)
Procrustean, popularized contortion of economic terms, salted generously with typos. Ladies and gentlemen, Matthew Yglesias!
Jazz saxophonist James Carter, et al., recorded an...
“When we say that we love a writer’s work, we are always stretching the truth:...”
– Martin Amis (via ayjay)
Clever, but false. Whether it’s writers or spouses, you love someone even if you don’t love 100% of everything about them. In fact, that’s pretty much the whole point of love, which is that you love people despite their flaws, or even because of them. (Love would be...
Watchhemingway:
J Mascis covers Edie Brickell’s “Circle of Friends”
J Mascis sure knows how to pick up a song and make it sound like it was his all along.
“It is only three years since a judge in St Petersburg, Russia, threw out a case...”
– American business is far from perfect, but it is generally agreed to be leading the way in tackling sexual harassment in the workplace. Most other countries have a lot of catching up to do. (via theeconomist)
If by “we” he means “Russians,” his impolitic assertion might...
The Flaming Lips: “Turn It On”
“What did you do for the first two years when Dwolla wasn’t technically...”
– Dwolla
This interview with the founder of Dwolla is really inspiring. I especially like this point, where the gruesome inefficiencies of state-based regulation actually provided time and space to get the product ready to roll out nationally.
“Maybe Joe [Therrien, the OWS puppeteer] and [I] caught the tail end of the era...”
– Will Wilkinson, with what is probably a correct diagnosis.
The political economy of puppetry | The Moral Sciences Club | Big Think
Tex Ritter, “Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My...
“You might almost think that the whole [social graph] scheme had been cooked up...”
– The Social Graph is Neither (Pinboard Blog)
“Yet if the only form of tradition, of handing down, consisted in following the...”
– T.S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent (via christmasgorilla)
I think much of what Eliot says about literature applies to the formation and the cultivation of a family within a religious tradition. Being “in but not of” the modern world is necessarily an exercise in...
Lee “Scratch” Perry: “Bick Neck...
“His happiness, I think, was his rhetorical secret weapon. One doesn’t suspect a...”
– Will Wilkinson on Milton Friedman’s rhetorical power. (via consillyence)
That’s a great observation, and one that I don’t recall reading in situ back when Will blogged it. Thanks, Kyle!
If contentedness can be a rhetorical secret weapon, I am at least part of the way to having powers...
“Keep in mind that on top of requiring 3-4 times as many clicks, you also now...”
– Reader redesign: Terrible decision, or worst decision? - >*
Comments from a former Google Reader PM, via Adam Laiacano
