Mindblown: culture, urbanism, leadership, technology.
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I hate moving
…I hate having to peel the scabs of life just so that I get the privilege of breaking my back to load the U-haul, then drive the damn land barge across five states listening to country-western music and extremist Christian Neo-conservative fascist rhetorical diatribe and the call ins from the morons who think that morality…
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i hate air travel
I really hate getting around by air. I have a hard time finding something that seems more universally unenjoyable yet maintains such a unyielding grip on the average person. There has to be a better way. There has to be a way to be comfortable in airports, to be comfortable on airplanes, not feel dehumanized…
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security through absurdity
Will someone please explain to me how “unattended luggage may present a security threat” when that luggage has already been screened at the security checkpoint and when all access to the passenger terminals is controlled, monitored, and tallied so that no “untrusted persons” have the ability to circumvent the security checkpoint? Will someone please explain…
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still not sleeping
Decisions… Writing is all about making decisions and living with them down the page. So is life. We forget this, I think, too easily. We live in a world of artifice that is intentionally designed to offer everything, reducing the necessity to make profound decisions or live with their consequences. It is the consumer culture…
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technology and politics
Does technology – specifically highly-interconnected members of a democratic republic – offer a realistic means to wrest the control of the republic away from “They who have corrupted it”? To answer that requires that you accept the premise that the republic is corrupted in some way. That is a multifaceted argument of some passion that…
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flu shots in the smart-mob world
I know nothing about what it takes to create an influenza vaccine, but what ever it takes, it seems like there ought to be a way to decentralize production and leverage a globally connected resource-space to end the shortage. In essence, open-sourcing the process of creating influenza vaccination and the adjoining quality control processes would…
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sleepless…
I so love insomnia… that nocturnal waking that languishes in the darkness, fighting to be alive when so much of you wants it to die. We battle it and always lose. I wish I were smart. I wish that I had talent. I wish that I could do something that was useful. I am none…
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focus
The power of focus in our social life – the life we have amongst others – is all built upon certain mutually agreed upon tenants. These are things of political and social philosophy – the logos of the agora so to speak. …what do we do with being… Being is one of those pesky present…
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locks…
So, I got out of the shower the other day and made a cup of coffee and went and sat outside on my balcony – barefoot and wearing a pair of pajamas and a sweater. Everything was fine, right up to the point where I noticed a bug flying into my house, at which point…
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“Trust us we’re from the Corporation”
ok, so I logged onto Amazon today for the first time in maybe two years and the following list of products was recommended for me to buy: Now, what is odd about this, aside from the Paris Hilton jewelry is this – Amazon made this recommendation based on my having purchased one item from them,…