June 2010
14 posts
In no system that could be rationally defended would the state just do nothing. ...
– Hayek, 2007, on individualism and collectivism, p88.
May 2010
12 posts
3 tags
Information Teleportation →
Overheard:
“It’s not so bad being old, it simplifies alot of things.”
Dad has an iPhone.
2 tags
HT: The Quantified Self
the evolution of Facebook privacy →
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Understand The Web →
Want to know if your ‘HTML application’ is part of the web? Link me into it. Not just link me to it; link me into it. Not just to the black-box frontpage. Link me to a piece of content. Show me that it can be crawled, show me that we can draw strands of silk between the resources presented in your app. That is the web: The beautiful interconnection of navigable content. If your website locks...
What creation has established, no culture is able to destroy.
– J.R.W.Stott, The Last Word, p59
The Medium isn't the Message →
Democratic revolutions require such deliberation and philosophical nourishment — more than can be delivered in 140-character bites. The Internet is a medium like none the world has ever known. But the medium isn’t the message. And in the struggle for liberty, the message matters most.
Immanence | Transcendence
Concrete | Abstraction
Flesh | Algorithm