June 2010
13 posts
“There is also the problem that ‘culture’ names a rather amorphous entity. Human...”
– Louis Menand in The Metaphysical Club, page 407 (via madregale)
“The basic tenet of the Internet is openness: you don’t need to forfeit all...”
– This argument does not match the title. Privacy is a form of freedom, not the opposite of freedom. Part of being free to say what you want means being free FROM snooping and people who shouldn’t be hearing what you have to say not being able to.
We have a whole area of rights around this -...
“It can be hard to predict the future through the haze of nostalgia”
– Jonah Lehrer examines The Shallows - What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains - By Nicholas Carr - NYTimes.com
“Stop treating your housing like edifices of a greater time that you scuttle into...”
– Warren Ellis: Making the century weirder
Hosenball: Al-Qaeda No. 3 Reportedly Killed in... →
(via newsweek)
Every time this announcement gets made, I remember this Slate piece from 2005:
Some jobs just seem impossible to keep filled. Hollywood studio head. United States ambassador to Iraq. Editor of the New York Daily News. Defense Against the Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
To these we must now add “al-Qaida’s No. 3 official.”