January 2011
10 posts
Something about the Egypt situation, briefly
I’ve seen some articles and posts going back and forth about the role of various internets in the Egypt protests. Similar notions got an extended discussion re: events in Iran. There was that Gladwell piece a few months ago (somewhat in response) that drew fire from uncritical web cheerleaders for daring to say that marching for civil rights took more courage and had more affect than...
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"sufficiently accurate for poetry"
Babbage once contacted the poet Alfred Tennyson in response to his poem “The Vision of Sin”. Babbage wrote,
“In your otherwise beautiful poem, one verse reads,
Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born.
… If this were true, the population of the world would be at a standstill. In truth, the rate of birth is slightly in excess of that of death. I would suggest...
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My latest ProgrammableWeb post.
Wrench
izs:
When you have a wrench, all problems look like fucked up nail that didn’t get hammered in quite right.
But if you pull on it, you can straighten it, so really, I don’t see what the problem is, I mean, it couldn’t be more obvious, and clearly, a wrench is the best tool for any jobs it can do.
It’s a really nice wrench, if people would just learn to use it properly, then their nails would...
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“We see the emerging opportunity to ‘snackify’ beverages and ‘drinkify’ snacks as...”
– Pepsi’s CEO
(via jonathan-deamer)
Oh my god. It is the end times.
(via whitneymcn)