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  • Zen, death, love, and an exorcism.
  • I have heard the toadfish singing.
  • Walking through a shitstorm.
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  • A Sociologist Examines the “White Fragility” That Prevents White Americans from Confronting Racism
  • We’re Not in This Together | Ajay Singh Chaudhary
  • [Essay] Poem for Harm, by Matthew Zapruder | Harper's Magazine
  • What’s ‘wild swimming’? The perfect antidote to cabin fever
  • ‘A Preventable Catastrophe’
  • Discord Was Once The Alt-Right’s Favorite Chat App. Now It’s Gone Mainstream And Scored A New $3.5 Billion Valuation
  • The Infinite Heartbreak of Loving Hong Kong
  • Guest Blog: From The Mainland to A Marathoner-- My T.I. Journey from Non-Swimmer to Open Water Long Distance - Total Immersion
  • The Hidden History Of Juneteenth
  • Where will you be? Why Black Lives Matter in the Hawaiian Kingdom

Recent books

Breathe! You Are Alive: Sutra on the Full Awareness of Breathing
Breathe! You Are Alive: Sutra on the Full Awareness of Breathing
by Thich Nhat Hanh

Why We Swim
Why We Swim
by Bonnie Tsui

Hitler
Hitler
by Joachim Fest

Old Path White Clouds: Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha
Old Path White Clouds: Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha
by Thich Nhat Hanh

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
by Robin Wall Kimmerer




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Month: May 2006

Neutral Net? Who Are You Kidding?

5/31/2006 Notes

Net neutrality: Never had it, never will: Neutral Net? Who Are You Kidding?

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Neutral Net? Who Are You Kidding?

Edge: Jaron Lanier on Digital Maoism

5/31/2006 Notes

Jaron Lanier says Wikipedia’s not only stupid, it’s “boring”: DIGITAL MAOISM: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism

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Edge: Jaron Lanier on Digital Maoism

Kings of All Media

5/30/2006 WiredPublished Work, Wired

Kings of All Media

Adding a computer to your home theater no longer means crossing your fingers and hoping for the best. All of the rigs here handle video and audio with aplomb, and even play saved movies while burning DVDs.… Read the rest

Kings of All Media

Get blacklisted by Google in just one day!

5/30/20065/30/2006 Rough Drafts4 Comments

Last week, my haiku site, tinywords, appeared as the 30th-40th result on a search for haiku on Google. This week, it’s not in the top 500. What happened?

I think Google is punishing me for mentioning the word “haiku” too many times in a previous post, which I admit I did in a fit of pique.… Read the rest

Get blacklisted by Google in just one day!

How to facilitate great conversations on your blog.

5/30/20065/30/2006 Rough Drafts4 Comments

The essence of good conversation is give and take. The problem blog-based “conversations” is that the essential give and take is almost always missing. I might say something provocative on my blog, and you might be moved to comment, but that’s usually where the back and forth ends.… Read the rest

How to facilitate great conversations on your blog.

Star dot-com analyst recants.

5/30/2006 Notes

Technologists think their business is the creation of cool technologies, because they are engineers who thrill to the idea of change. By contrast, Coburn says, “technology is widely hated by its users,” because ordinary folk loathe change: Technology Review: Emerging Technologies and their Impact

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Star dot-com analyst recants.

AT&T leaks sensitive info in NSA suit

5/28/2006 Notes

D’oh! AT&T lawyers accidentally leak sensitive info in NSA suit

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AT&T leaks sensitive info in NSA suit

Google’s embarrassing mistake.

5/26/2006 Rough Drafts47 Comments

I think it’s time we all agreed that the “nofollow” tag has been a complete failure.

For those of you new to the concept, nofollow is a tag that blogs can add to hyperlinks in blog comments. The tag tells Google not to use that link in calculating the PageRank for the linked site.… Read the rest

Google’s embarrassing mistake.

Kindred, by Octavia E. Butler.

5/26/2006 Rough Drafts

Kindred (Bluestreak  Black Women Writers)The premise of Kindred is that Dana, an African-American woman living in the late 1970s, is suddenly transported back in time to a Maryland slave plantation in 1819. It turns out that she’s been called back in time to save the son of the white plantation owner–a boy who, she soon learns, is one of her ancestors.… Read the rest

Kindred, by Octavia E. Butler.

10,000 digital sheep.

5/25/20065/25/2006 Rough Drafts1 Comment

one sheep Best application for MTurk I’ve seen yet: Someone asked people to “draw a sheep facing left.” Compensation per sheep: $0.02. Total number of sheep drawn: 10,000. Their web site shows every single one, and yes, you can buy the sheep: The Sheep Market

Background: Amazon’s Mechanical Turk is a sort of virtual, distributed sweatshop for online piecework.… Read the rest

10,000 digital sheep.

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