May 2010
13 posts
Licensing v. Politeness
via spime: I don’t normally moan over attribution. Though I’ve noticed a sharp increase in the lack of general compliance with the licence on my site. I’m not expecting MLA-style citations but I will direct your attention to the Creative Commons attribution licence used on my site. If you like my links just say where you got it from, it’s that simple.
Since I’m one of the people being...
WatchI’m reblogging this on the flimsy excuse that it’s about things you can do with a city, but mostly because it’s just charming and fun.
gregrutter: “This is a skateboard video about 2 men from Wisconsin which serves to remind us that sometimes it’s not about how high you can ollie, it’s about how far you can power slide.”
“Few of us went into English Lit or Publishing or whatever with the intention of...”
– Book Camp T.O. Wrap-Up Pt. I: Book as Object « Inklings
“A city with floor-to-ceiling windows is a confident city. Sheets of glass,...”
– In Bangkok, Gunfire Outside a Reporter’s Window - NYTimes.com
“These videos are viewable using the standard red/cyan anaglyph glasses. I have...”
– KEIICHI MATSUDA - Password = unit15 This match has taken a day and…
“A retired military officer and former instructor at West Point specifically...”
– More Militarized Than the Military | The Agitator
“Another problem with the net is that it’s still ‘technology’,...”
– Douglas Adams in 1999 How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet
“There is nothing post-modern about the electric chair.”
– Errol Morris gives a commencement address.
Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism -
“Martin’s personal effects needed to be detailed enough to suggest that he was a...”
– Ever since Cryptonomicon first introduced me to the idea of information theory as it relates to intelligence vs. counter-intelligence, I have been off and on obsessed with the kind of triple circular thinking that you need to do to craft a convincing lie.
This story about making a document intended...
