Though President Bush has been a bulldog in counseling patience and declaring that the war isn't over, it's not clear how many Americans believe him.
Why did people think apatriotism was ever anything except nationalistic sentimentality, anyway?
Though President Bush has been a bulldog in counseling patience and declaring that the war isn't over, it's not clear how many Americans believe him.
Why did people think apatriotism was ever anything except nationalistic sentimentality, anyway?
Another comment about having a lot of money.
I've noticed that the more I have, the more I can deal with people as objects rather than as subjects (to use Nikolai Berdyaev's terms). That is, my relations with people are more likely to be economic transactions rather than efforts of love.
The danger here, of course, is that I will fall into a routine of economic transactions and end up with no love. These sorts of relationships are easy (they only require that some form of payment be exchanged), but they are unfullfilling.
You can 'solve' any problem by obscuring it with weird jargon. David also talks mentions a lot of technology is so complex because people aren't thinking mathematically. Guess its good I'm working with a mathematician.
I love it when research ends up being cycling advocacy. Jeff points to an article in the Seattle Times about how bad suburbs are for you. It contains these comments:
People who live in newer suburban neighborhoods are more likely to travel by car ? and less likely to go anywhere on foot or by bike ? than residents of traditional pre-World War II neighborhoods, Frank found.
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By catering so slavishly to the automobile and discouraging walking, biking and transit, they say, suburbia has inadvertently promoted sloth. A nation that has become increasingly suburban also has become increasingly sedentary, more prone to obesity, diabetes and heart disease.
Of course, they should correlate this study with income to get a better picture of what is going on.
Doc Searls, in going off about Journalism's dismissiveness of blogging has this comment:
What mattered wasn't what David said, nor the fact that he is one of the leading thinkers and writers (not to mention commentators) on the subject. What mattered was that NPR (not David) said anything about blogs.
Years ago, I had this idea of tracking what was written in different publications and writing down my comments on what the bent of particular journalists was. It was obvious there was bias, but I there were too many writers, spread accross multiple publications that it was difficult for me to keep track of them mentally.
I mention this because I was trying to seperate the writer from the publication. Trying to get at the individual voice rather than the Corporate one.
Paul Graham, co-founder of ViaWeb, writes about using lisp on the backend of their webapp: So if Lisp makes you a better programmer, like [esr] says, why wouldn't you want to use it?
(Found this from David Weinberger's blog where he writes My own book, The Adventurer's Guide to Interleaf Lisp, continues to sell high into the single digits every year. I only wish I were kidding.
Really, I've got to get to work. Paul Graham has an excellent essay on Taste, or so I've been told (I've not read the whole thing), in which he writes:
If you mention taste nowadays, a lot of people will tell you that "taste is subjective." They believe this because it really feels that way to them. When they like something, they have no idea why. It could be because it's beautful, or because their mother had one, or because they saw a movie star with one in a magazine, or because they know it's expensive. Their thoughts are a tangle of unexamined impulses.
Also: But if your job is to design things, and there is no such thing as beauty, then there is no way to get better at your job.
The almost universal response from potential partners was: 'We don't understand the business model; we don't know how we or Microsoft will make money on the plan; and we don't necessarily trust Microsoft to be the single repository or host for this model,'
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"We have made the point with them multiple times: If you believe consumers or businesses want to put all of their eggs in one basket, that's just not a model that flies," [Tony Scott, a chief technology officer at General Motors] said. "We'd love to convince the world that all they needed to buy were GM cars, but that's just not the reality."
— Is Microsoft getting ahead of itself?, an article on .NET
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