The New York Times > Week in Review > China Expands. Europe Rises. And the United States . . .

The New York Times > Week in Review > China Expands. Europe Rises. And the United States . . .

Cracking like a limb in an icestorm--american hegemony crashes to the ground, it's rotten core revealed.

Cabin fever takes its toll and Mike is the victim. 

EPIC 2014

EPIC 2014

The Paris Review - Interviews

The Paris Review - Interviews

Unparalleled resource in any lit class.

Johns Hopkins University Press | Journals | Philosophy and Literature | Philosophy and Literature Sample Article

Johns Hopkins University Press | Journals | Philosophy and Literature | Philosophy and Literature Sample Article

evacuate into the morning mist thou dread wraith fog 

My sweet Phoebe 

MIT OpenCourseWare | Literature

MIT OpenCourseWare | Literature

If you haven't seen MIT's open courseware site, get here quickly and see what an independent learner can do right now for absolutely no sheckels whatsoever.

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Possibly the funniest picture I have ever seen.

Sweet Mo 

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Bloggertest

Here they are!

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Here they are!

Originally uploaded by Tellio.

Beat Me, Daddy, Eight to the Bar

King Allen on the 24th of July.

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CTHEORY.NET > Why the Web Will Win the Culture Wars for the Left by Peter Lurie

CTHEORY.NET > Why the Web Will Win the Culture Wars for the Left by Peter Lurie: "The Web is a postmodernist tool that inevitably produces a postmodernist perspective"

Amen.brother. But is it really a tool? A tool implies specific use and a deconstructionist reading makes it rather toolish to be that tool.

How communities work?

: "Additionally, in many case studies, networks and swarms co-exist. The 'Battle for Seattle' is one case in point. On one level, there were the self-organized affinity groups of the protesters coordinated by Direct Action Network. This level involved a swarming of bodies at particular physical locations (intersections, roads, buildings). Yet, as numerous commentators have noted, this swarming would not have been as successful without the layer of networks that, in part, enabled protesters to coordinate their local movements. This layer was composed of mobile and wireless gadgets, police scanners, and even streaming video. Therefore, in this case there is a combination of swarming bodies with a network of data transmissions. Similar instances of the co-existence between swarms and networks can be seen in the biological domain. In ethology, the study of ant foraging involves not just the corporeal swarming of individual ants, but what enables the swarm to achieve its goal of finding a food source is the informational content of the pheromone trails. The laying of pheromone trails constitutes a network of data exchanges, which both communicates a message ('go this way') as well as enabling the swarm to achieve its overall goal. At an even smaller level, the study of antibody production in the immune system shows that, in addition to a swarming of antibodies and other enzyme co-factors, there is an informational network that exists through the signaling of molecules in relation to each other."

What is the common element behind all this activity? Trust. So the question begs itself: "What is trust? Is it related to belief? Are believers and unbelievers and non-believers all needed in this trust system?"

Water Cooler Games - Education Arcade, day 1

Water Cooler Games - Education Arcade, day 1

Laurel pointed out that schools are incredibly immune to change. Gaming can't change schools. The kind of learning kids need is not going to come up in schools. When used in classrooms, games become an accessory to the same hierarchy; they don't puncture the spectacle of culture of politics.

Amen to this. Now what do we do? Fucked if I know. Keep on or get out.

Read Darwin -Are You Ready for Social Software? - WHAT'S NEW - Magazine - Darwin Magazine

'equaintance'

A brand new word on the horizon. I love neologisms like this. When I hear them I feel the satisfying click of brass-on-brass in my mind and know they are 'true'.

Our farm at dusk. Glorious. 

Those Dark Hiding Places: The Invisible Web Revealed

Those Dark Hiding Places: The Invisible Web Revealed

The Long Now Foundation: Press

The Long Now Foundation: Press

Brooklyn BloggEd

Brooklyn BloggEd

Atest

A test of my referrer for log for my main weblog.

O'Reilly Network: Some Nice Editorials on Dean and Blogs [Feb. 01, 2004]

O'Reilly Network: Some Nice Editorials on Dean and Blogs [Feb. 01, 2004]

expertise trumps enthusias,? I think that is pretty limited view of how one becomes an expert--by becoming enthusiastic about a useful tool whether that tool is an idea or a new technology or a skill.

Best Practices and Case Studies: Be Very Afraid

Best Practices and Case Studies: Be Very Afraid

Another bubble burst. The only best practice is your best practice.

The Atlantic | January/February 2003 | The New Continental Divide | Lind

The Atlantic | January/February 2003 | The New Continental Divide | Lind: "The nightmarish result might be an America in which the same wealthy elite lords it over both a largely nonwhite proletariat of maids, nannies, gardeners, and janitors in the coastal cities and over a mostly white working class of janitors, dude-ranch employees, and tourist-trap workers in the interior. This, in turn, might produce a hardening economic and racial hierarchy or even a class war. Whatever the outcome, the American dream of a middle-class society might be threatened."

Gropinator

Gropinator: "Of course, Walmart cares not about a level playing field. To quote the president of thread maker Carolina Mills: 'We want clean air, clear water, good living conditions, the best health care in the world--yet we aren't willing to pay for anything manufactured under those restrictions.'"