Burrito panelists judge local chains’ burritos – Boston.com
“Emerging sub-culture”? My ass. I’ve been chowing down on burritos for a very long time, along with many others. And in my day, it was hard to...
Author: charlie
Hmm, more on Facebook, social objects, personas, and so forth
Stefan’s comment to my post on Facebook ("Facebook is a persistent Julie McCoy") got me thinking: I regularly explain to people about how users ...
We’re moving into an oral culture on so many levels
We’re rapidly approaching an oral culture. The fluidity of the Web seems to have many aspects of an oral culture in terms of how we can interact with so m...
Seen: Add to Friends Shirt | Facebook
STan and Alexis from Semapedia.org are at it again. THey’ve set up an easy way (link below) to add a friend on FaceBook. The catch is, you do it by readin...
Craig Venter giving a Long Now seminar today (25feb08)
Dang, I was not able to finagle a trip to SFO to see this talk. But, if you live in the Bay Area, don’t miss this! Link: Long Now Seminars Craig Venter is...
Another great Long Now seminar: Juan Enriquez “Mapping Life”
Saying that the Long Now seminars are great is starting to feel repetitive. So, please go out and listen to ALL of them. I’ve caught up with all the semin...
links for 2008-02-19
Long Views » Blog Archive » Rocks of Ages (tags: video funny animation time longnow) Maps of War ::: Visual History of War, Religion, and Government (tags: educ...
How to teach a service the connections I have in my mind
I’ve been a big proponent of teaching machines by doing. I don’t mean that the machine is ‘watching’ my move and guessing what is going ...
links for 2008-02-18
Shorpy :: History in HD | High-Resolution Historical Photos (tags: art camera culture history photos photography photo people interesting world retro inspiratio...
Are Kosovars Albanians or Serbians?
I grew up thinking that nations should be the scale at which people are governed. I could not understand why Israel didn’t just make all the Palestinians ...