January 2012
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“I have been intending to write this essay for months. Why am I finally doing it?...”
– John Perry’s How to Procrastinate and Still Get Things Done looks like a good article on the ‘active procrastination’ I wrote about yesterday. True to form, I’ll read it later.
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“Whenever people are certain they understand our peculiar situation here on this...”
– Robert Anton Wilson. (via Boing Boing)
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Misc. links Jan 1st - 14th
This is the Future, today: Bruce Stering and Jon Lebkowsky debate the State of the World. There’s the coming war on general computation, the reason why I think everyone should learn how to code, as that would be the only thing protecting free speech from enclosure in a walled garden of infinite bullshit. The same general movements, in turn, might also explain why fashion and style got stuck...
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“There are some people who are really good at using false dichotomies and then...”
– Jason Sweeney. Bravo!
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Twenty Eleven, Twelve
So we have come to this: twenty-twelve. That year.
In which the world is supposed to end (as pictured yesterday), the Mayan myth getting some traction here because the future seem pretty bleak in this old and impoverished southern European economy, a feeling opposite to the innocent optimism of the previous apocalypse, during the Y2K Belle Époque. The consensus here is there’s not much to...
