December 2011
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The Coming War on General Purpose Computation -... →
While I am an Apple user, I’m definitely in there with Cory on the need to be able to make sure the policies on our general purpose devices which become our hearing aids and cars have policies that benefit me and not those who might have designs on me. What I am equally nervous about is “austerity for the rest of us” — sustainability via restrictive hardware policy. (Perhaps...
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Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 211, William... →
I didn’t even learn what a “bucket list” is until about 6 months ago. But after reading this article, I feel like I would be doing a great disservice to myself and everything I like about what I do, if I didn’t put on that list to take a month off and read all of William Gibson’s novels in one sitting.
Just one of many fantastic quotes from this piece:
I met Ridley...
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Christmas Ideas?
morethis:
My in-laws want to buy me something but I don’t know what to ask for. Ideas?
Gift cards. Delay the decision to later!
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Nerdist » Making It podcast with Joss Whedon →
This is one of the most fantastic things I have heard about the creative process ever. Even though I don’t make films, the idea of coordinating something at a large scale that taps effectively and deeply into people’s personal creativity, that inspires them to do things that surprise them, and to carry a vision of what it looks and feels and smells that do that for yourself as well as...
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“Our relevance as western designers and design critics will ultimately be...”
– David Stairs reviews “Design with other 90%:Cities”: Change Observer: Design Observer
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“The purest expression of rebellion is joy.”
– Joss Whedon (accepting the award for Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog in the “short-format action entertainment wetotallymadethisup” category…and if he was quoting someone else, Google wasn’t forthcoming)
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“The Internet is at exactly this phase. The same channels that carry our emails,...”
– Jonathan Zittrain, “Civic Technologies and the Future of the Internet.” Presentation, 2009. The oven-mitt approach to the Internet as a tool. This is the best articulation (albeit, long, in that way that academics can be sometimes) of the fears expressed around the time the iPad was...
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» Putting the Future Back in the Room Alex Steffen →
The problem is, the children of 2050 will look at that future world, with all its problems, and see home: and they’ll look at the choices they have in front of them, and see the future. And since the choices we make in the next forty years will decide what choices our descendants are left with — a thriving society engaged in centuries of restoration and planetary repair, or a gradual desperate...
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“How do you handle the negative response?” asks Penny.
“I want my...”
– Carolyn Ellis, “Ethnographic I.” (Replace “autoethnography” with “blogging,” and this is a very effective response to why I don’t write more often at my actual website.)