Gah. Why are folks trying to be digital in an analog world?
Call me old-fashioned, but I want some analog-computing being done with biological systems. I’m never comfortable with digital thinking with biological ma...
Author: charlie
The most famous pillow book of the 20th century is getting revised
Here’s a great article (link below) on the book “The Joy of Sex,” which is getting updated for the 21st century (and women). It’s really...
Do media endorsements of candidates mean anything
I’ve been watching Obama rack up the endorsements. But, a quick check of the last presidential election shows that Kerry far outstripped Bush in getting e...
Political and economic turmoil driving info-obsession
Ok. But, are we just passive? Has there been an uptick in activism as well? Link: Too Much News? – NYTimes.com And the news is not just consequential, but...
The ‘Quiet’ post
Every so often a site has the ‘oh, sorry for being so quiet’ post. This is sort-of one of them. Stream of bookmark consciousness I used to have the ...
links for 2008-08-11 [delicious.com]
Stranger than fiction – The Boston Globe "If we didn't have Clark Rockefeller, we'd have to make him up. Actually, Christian Karl Gerhartsr...
links for 2008-08-07 [delicious.com]
Times Higher Education – All the privileged must have prizes (tags: boston cambridge harvard university teaching education school society culture money co...
links for 2008-08-06 [delicious.com]
MobileMe Problems Show Apple Needs an Infrastructure Lesson – GigaOM (tags: apple mobileme internet service) When Google Owns You | chrisbrogan.com So muc...
Tracing paths in woods nearby
I’ve moved to a new neighborhood and there’s a forest nearby. Today, to get a better idea of all the trails, the dog and I wandered every trail we c...
Swimming the sea of knowledge (the Concept Web?)
I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about how to find, navigate, recombine, and contribute to … what’s out there, though mostly focused ...