I’m still working out the details of the “asides” category here, so in the meantime let me just dump the many links I’ve accumulated into a single post and pop them into the chamber. Some are old; all should still be of interest.
- Bruce Sterling writes on “The Futures Of Money” at Forbes.com.
- An honorable use of funds: “They Gave Me Half a Million to Preserve Rare Books”.
- J. LeRoy writes in “My Agile Valentine”:
Life is also important, even beyond Valentine’s day. Figure into schedules other elements of life and be tolerant when they come up. Other elements of life often need to tolerate work’s sometimes demanding schedules.
- Essay on the differences between”complex” and “adaptive”: worth a look. at ComplexityBlog. See also this essay on Engineering multi-agent systems, a topic I’m quite interested in, as well. When time permits….
- Edward Vielmetti passes along a link to the Agile Web Design Manifesto
- Alex Halavais on the the arms race between University cheaters and proctors. I remember the time I had to ask all the kids in an exam to turn their baseball caps so the bills were facing backwards, not forwards….
- A nice suite of links to historical precedents of anti-eBook paranoia, from TeleRead.
- A useful suite of links from Son1 towards some useful reminders about social interaction among intellectuals. Of all stripes.
- On the future of editing. Everything. Each other.
- From ONLamp.com: “There Is No Open Source Community”
- Why “the Mainstream” is not ideal for us. [Thank you, Rana]
- A link to an excellent piece on the economics of a Ph.D., via 3quarksdaily.
- TeleRead on the Long Tail of the Backlist
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