Archive for February, 2006
My cable. Your cable. Whose cable?
Edward Vielmetti on “Building the Internet Toll Road”:
You were lied to. That’s right. You see, customers funded fiber optic networks they never received, to the tune of $2000 per household
[internal quote]
The thing about being an entrepreneur…
…is this: When the roller coaster throws you to the concrete, you just dust yourself off and buy another ticket.
So tempting.
Anyway, Russell Beattie points out some obvious things about business models and Web 2.0.
Some facets of the future, shining back at you
Planned Obsolescence brings together three important links to essays on electronic academic publishing. Go read all three.
I’m reminded of Closing the Set, and the online annotation stuff I suggest in The Annotated Everything.
How will academic contributors to distributed shared works—conversations, really—get the credit they want? Will job candidates’ biographies get thousands of times longer? Will the snail’s pace of academic conversation have to be acknowledged?
Cultural “issues” ahead.
At what’s behest?
Big Monkey, Helpy Chalk thinks out loud about wheat, dogs, and history in “Our symbiotes, ourselves”
Reminds me of this archived post. [I'm bringing them over from the moribund archives as I can.]
Pushing the Carnival Envelope
For example, the “Darwin is Dead” carnival. [I'm not linking directly]. Isn’t it wonderful how people are allowed to be so obstinately dim-witted?
Tom Delay’s cronies use the IRS as an attack dog
Seen at Ghost in the Machine:
“The [instigating] lawmaker, House Ways and Means Committee member Sam Johnson (R-Tex.), was in turn responding to a complaint about the group…from Barnaby W. Zall, a Washington lawyer close to DeLay and his fundraising apparatus, according to IRS documents.”
Should we file this under “Teapot Dome“, or “The Texas Tammany Hall“?
Mammoths of the Inner Earth
Most frozen mammoth theories use the presence of these mammoths corpses as evidence for some catastrophic event in the past: pole shift, near miss by rogue planets, explosion of errant ice moon, Noah’s flood, or its aftermath. They agree that the mammoths were all frozen in a single event. If the mammoth is truly a separate species from other elephants (many theories say it is not), then the catastrophe was the cause of their extinction. The Hollow Earth theory is different.
A subtle influence of goons
I realize that I miss them. Used to listen to them religiously, kneeling before the old wireless in Fairview Park (WCLV Saturday Night on Wednesday Afternoon) in the aught-70s, in my early teens.
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