Saturday, March 29, 2014
"There is no Hogwarts" explained the coroner, "when children are starved and locked in cupboards they hallucinate." #RuinAChildrensBook
"The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Malfunction" #RuinAChildrensBook
#RuinAChildrensBook Harry Potter and the University of Phoenix
via volokh
There are already entities with vastly greater than human intelligence working on the problem of augmenting their own intelligence. A great many, in fact. We call them corporations.
another anti-singularity rant at antipope.org, but this one is thoughtful and thoughtprovoking.
another anti-singularity rant at antipope.org, but this one is thoughtful and thoughtprovoking.
palmerstonisland 1 sq mile, 50 people, kind of like pitcairn but less independent, it's part of new zealand.
boing boing videocast with james altucher, an interesting guy i me on reddit one time. http://boingboing.net/2014/03/28/gweek-podcast-139-choose-your.html
Thursday, March 27, 2014
http://www.ibj.com/ just another link i need to remember to put into the blogroll on my next makeover.
nice photo of my hometown of wilmington, from the deck of the kalmar nikel, a replica historic tall ship. from a story about how wilmington is number 1 for crime for cities of that size
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
http://catandgirl.com/?p=1044 the toothpaste one.
http://do317.com/ why indy isn't boring.
reading pirate cinema, a cory doctorow novel i missed when it came out.
http://craphound.com/pc/Cory_Doctorow_-_Pirate_Cinema.html
list here of possible typos. i usually send cory any proofreading notes when he puts his books free online.
http://craphound.com/pc/Cory_Doctorow_-_Pirate_Cinema.html
list here of possible typos. i usually send cory any proofreading notes when he puts his books free online.
"My parents don't do politics, either. Do you see your old mum?"
She shook her head. "Naw," she said. "Left my mum when I was little. He's a cop, believe it or not. In Glasgow. Mum's been remarried for ages, though. Stepdad's a good bloke."
(mum = man?)
have with me, but am not getting far into, T'ai Chi classics, shambhala press. T'ai Chi was one of the two classes I flunked in my semester at Naropa Institute. Naropa and Shambhala are connected.
also reading a journal/memoir by alec guiness.
finished reading the art and science of dumpster diving, a loompanics books publication.
loompanics is no longer in business but had a lot of counterculture skills texts in their catalog.
also reading a journal/memoir by alec guiness.
finished reading the art and science of dumpster diving, a loompanics books publication.
loompanics is no longer in business but had a lot of counterculture skills texts in their catalog.
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
IND. DECISIONS - "INDIANA COURT RULES AGAINST SEARCHING MOTORISTS WHO LEAVE THEIR CAR LOOKING AT A TAIL LIGHT DURING A TRAFFIC STOP DOES NOT JUSTIFY A PAT DOWN"
Sunday, March 23, 2014
Listen my children and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five; Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year. |
charlie interviews larry at ted. http://www.ted.com/talks/larry_page_where_s_google_going_next
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
i had to run up to chicago on monday so i missed the usual st pat's festivities at the golden ace, my neighborhood tavern. pic is from humansofnewyork blog.
Friday, March 14, 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwQxviY2cSU lucky charms ad by pentatonix
i haven't blogged anything lately. my focus has been elsewhere, a lot of running around in the real world. my friend tynan addressed a problem like that by making a $10,000 bet with a friend that he will blog every day. i'm not going to do anything like that, but i will link to his post as a way to end my not posting streak. http://tynan.com/10k