Cryptography | The non-denial of the non-self
How philosophy can help create secure databases — or, more likely, create massive non-data maintenance headaches: Cryptography | The non-denial of the non-self | Economist.com
Notes
Scraps and sketches from my notebook
509 postsTarget’s Franklin Roosevelt action doll.
Target’s “Franklin Roosevelt” action doll looks curiously anachronistic for a mid-20th century President…
Pluto is a Planet Protest – cruftbox’s blog
They came for the small, icy planets, and I said nothing, because I was not a small, icy planet… Pluto is a Planet Protest
Army Corps of Engineers is the real culprit behind Katrina
“If an unsafe building collapsed and killed 1,000 people, we wouldn’t blame the building’s manager, or its maintenance crew, or the rescue squad… We would blame the architects.” Army Corps of Engineers is the real culprit behind Katrina | Grist Magazine
Six Apart – News and Events
I loved Gopher so much I included a map of gopherspace in my 1994 book, The Traveler’s Guide to the Information Highway (long since out of print). Nice to see this retrospective: Six Apart – Digging up info on Gopher
WSJ.com – Enterprise
The WSJ discovers that the library is a great place for business info. (Especially true of the gorgeous brand-new library we have in San Mateo.) WSJ.com – Big help for small businesses at the library
You can’t teach a human.
“You can’t teach a human,” said Bill in our last lesson. “… You can tell them, you can show them, you can warn them, but in the end all you’re doing is putting the information in front of them so they can figure it out for themselves.” Dervala.net: Practice
Be like Al.
Learn to give anti-global-warming presentations just like Al Gore does in An Inconvenient Truth. You could actually make a difference this way: The Climate Project
Computers Makers Reach 10-Year High In Customer Satisfaction
Apart from the whole exploding batteries problem, that is: Computers Makers Reach 10-Year High In Customer Satisfaction – Yahoo! News
Islamic fascists?
Ordinarily I hate Bush’s turns of phrase, but in this case, I think “Islamic fascists” is probably just about accurate. First time I’ve seen that phrase used… SFGate: Thwarted plot involved 10 jets
Fighting for Net Neutrality and Internet Freedom
This is so dorky that it can only have been created by some big telecom company in an effort to discredit Net Neutrality completely: WeAreTheWeb.org (thanks, Null)