Read the thing.
Now, when I say these are three things you have to accept, I mean you have to accept them. Because if you don’t accept them upfront, they’ll happen to you anyway. And then you’ll end up writing one of those documents that says “Oh, we launched this and we tried it, and then the users […]
Open Source won’t get you laid.
I just read Jaron Lanier (father of virtual reality, etc.)’s December blog post, “Long Live Closed-Source Software,” re: the open-source movement’s ability to create faithful copies and complete inability to innovate in the user space.
Although I use some open source software RELIGIOUSLY (Firefox web browser, QuickSilver, some web coding programs), Lanier’s totally fuckin right — […]
Don’t Judge a Book By Its Cover (or the length of its footnotes)
Fooling casual readers is easy. So is preaching to the choir. Even when you’re feeding your audience outright lies, they’ll eat it up if they want to believe. Sometimes, however, the liars forget that the rest of the world can hear them.
I just discovered an excellently packaged lie while searching for books on Armenia — […]
Where the “Social” web came from for me
Propellerheads software team (creator of ReBirth and Reason)’s original website where each developer had a .plan file he would update with the details of whatever problem he was working on at the time
umich .plan files, which my geek friends filled in with status messages, funny quotes, and textual versions of their one-page homepages.
the unix ‘who‘ […]
Firefly.net - a bit of history
Firefly.net rarely gets mentioned these days, but when pheezy mentioned Pandora (which i’ve not yet tried), my mind rolled back to 1998.
Firefly was a community site created in the early days of the web by Dr. Pattie Maes from MIT MediaLab. Firefly connected you with other people who had similar taste in music + media. […]