27 Apr 2009, 22:29 p.m.

Fan Dances And Leafblowers

The other day, Leonard and I were brunching with Adi. We got to talking about the little superstitions you make up when you're a kid, like "if the digital clock shows a time that repeats …

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27 Apr 2009, 6:40 a.m.

Thoughtcrime Experiments Anthology Is Up

Nine new original stories, five new original artworks, and an essay on how and why we did it. Read it online, download the PDF, or (soon) buy the print-on-demand book. Link, download, read, and remix …

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25 Apr 2009, 23:27 p.m.

Hiro-ics Don't Scale, They Say

Now I'm rereading Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash bit by bit. Spoiler ahead: The important thing is, Hiro, that you have to understand the Mafia way. And the Mafia way is that we pursue larger goals …

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25 Apr 2009, 19:56 p.m.

Translation Of A Truth

I reread much of Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon a few weeks ago and found this passage: "We're businessmen," Avi says. "We make money. Gold is worth money." "Gold is the corpse of value," says Goto Dengo. …

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25 Apr 2009, 8:20 a.m.

Out-Of-Context Quotes Of The Moment

"Pretend you're in a giant teacup." "Why?!" "You just are." "It's like you have an 'it's complicated' in Facebook with yourself." "You should delicious that tweet - NOOOooooooo....." "Riker's so boring I'm falling asleep just …

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23 Apr 2009, 11:58 a.m.

Two Thoughts on the Role of Scrum Master

"Each week. On This American Scrum. We have a theme. And ask three questions based on that theme. Question One: what did you do yesterday? Question two: what will you do, what do you aim …

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23 Apr 2009, 6:45 a.m.

Learning

In the last two weeks, I have learned rather a lot about configuring and troubleshooting usage of Empathy, Telepathy, Synaptic, PPAs, git, TeX/LaTeX/dvi, gtimelog, IRC and bip, RSA SSH, and XMPP. Well, it was a …

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18 Apr 2009, 8:04 a.m.

Ramping Up

In my first week at Collabora, I've learned that I can stand to poke at .conf, .rc, and similar files for at most two hours out of my working day. I've also learned that the …

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17 Apr 2009, 8:43 a.m.

Joke, Joke

Perhaps wearing my oldest, most beat-up Electronic Frontier Foundation shirt to a party full of new-to-copyright law students is not as effective a dominance/status display as I'd hoped.

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15 Apr 2009, 8:31 a.m.

Well, this anxiety is a familiar bouquet.…

Well, this anxiety is a familiar bouquet.

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