“No won­der they shut down the inter­net. It’s more pow­er­ful than guns. Smart mobs with online capa­bil­i­ties are defeat­ing sta­tus quo orga­ni­za­tion ruled by hier­ar­chy and unfa­mil­iar with coor­di­nat­ing tech­nolo­gies. These mobile smart mobs can be built on the fly in a mat­ter of hours or days and they will con­tinue to get smarter. Reac­tion rates are get­ting much, much faster.”

Worth hear­ing, as a coun­ter­point to the stu­pid bull­shit that’s more often pro­mul­gated by busi­ness devel­op­ment and investors.

“…In my reflec­tive mood, I’m won­der– ing, was its advice cor­rect at the time, is it still rel­e­vant, and do Istill believe that met­rics are a must for any suc– cess­ful soft­ware devel­op­ment effort? My answers are no, no, and no.”

“A LaTeX tem­plate to eff­i­cently design pretty posters for sci­en­tific con­fer­ences. Posters are com­pos­ited of blocks with head­ings, which can be posi­tioned eas­ily on the page, using absolute or rel­a­tive posi­tion­ing. A num­ber of pre­de­fined styles can be com­posed to gen­er­ate new color schemes and ornaments.”

“An exquis­ite jQuery plu­gin for mag­i­cal layouts”

“… Edmund­son, sim­i­lar to some con­ser­v­a­tive or tra­di­tion­al­ist human­ists, believes in a com­mand model. The pub­lic only val­ued lit­er­a­ture because the crit­ics told them to. The pub­lic only under­stood lit­er­a­ture because the crit­ics told them what it meant. The pub­lic only read lit­er­a­ture because the crit­ics lead them through the read­ing of it. Once the com­mand­ment van­ished, so did the West­ern tra­di­tion itself, and with extra­or­di­nary rapidity.”

“On the bright side? Screen­cast­ing. From your Mac. To your Apple TV.”