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I've just had a spam trying to persuade me that mobile/cellular phones are an invention of Satan and have all sorts of "666" number of the best connections. Oh well, at least it's funny, unlike the v1@gR@!!1c1al1s stuff. 2006-05-30T23:57:03Z
Stephen is trying out the MP3 Outliner. 2006-05-30T21:44:09Z
On the Valleywag vibe, check out these facial comparisons. Mike Arrington as John Rawls 2.0? You'll gasp in surprise at who Jason Calacanis is compared to... 2006-05-30T21:06:29Z
Jeff Attwood is asking whether developers still need to accommodate dial-up? Yes, because large chunks of the world still use it, and the leap to 3G/EVDO isn't going to be that smooth because of pricing - meaning that lots of folks like me are going to be GPRS users for a while. GPRS is really Dialup 2.0. 2006-05-30T21:02:13Z
I just got Valleywagged. Damn you Steve Jobs, for giving me the gift of Comic Life. 
2006-05-30T20:18:55Z
Cathy Young in Reason: "On the right or the left, reason-based and reality-based politics are increasingly hard to find." 2006-05-30T16:43:21Z
Yesterday, I put up a new cartoon called What are the Nerds Doing? It features a star-studded crowd: Mike Arrington, Bill Thompson, Adam Curry, Patricia Pye, Cory Doctorow, Steve Rubel, Steve Jobs, Jason Calacanis, Steve Gillmor and me. 2006-05-30T12:04:23Z
PR Week has an article on OPML (via Steve Rubel). Interesting, but I think - as I said in Steve's comments - that the marketing opportunities with OPML are not do well. Yes, OPML is used 99.9% of the time to move reading lists around. But it's the 0.1% of the time where the really interesting stuff is happening. 2006-05-30T12:02:08Z
Kent Newsome has some ideas on how to improve the blogosphere. 2006-05-30T11:52:10Z
We Feel Fine 2006-05-30T23:06:01Z
We Feel Fine is the most superb piece of flashy tech I've seen in a while (via digg).
It's seriously cool. It's serendipity for personal journal articles from Blogger and LJ.
pover has been climbing trees.
Keith wants to hang out with vampires and try to teach them logic or something.
The Jaikit is fired up by Mark Thomas and is ready to take on the world.
xplastikx is rambling but has a cool FFX icon.
All of these were found sort of randomly on WFF.
Lanier Is Wrong From The Get-Go 2006-05-30T23:21:24Z
Jaron Lanier has an article on Edge about Wikipedia where he makes the claim:
Reading a Wikipedia entry is like reading the bible closely. There are faint traces of the voices of various anonymous authors and editors, though it is impossible to be sure.
Only Wikipedia has diff functionality available to anyone willing to click "history".
I don't buy the idea that the Web is going to disappear and just become a metaverse. No, I think that the meta is the starting point for the individual relationship - we used to trust fate to bring people of shared interests together, but now we are codifying the process. This is something that Lanier picks up in his article.
It doesn't follow that something like Wikipedia - which is intended only as a ready reference - is a bad thing (real research - scientific or humanistic - still requires the analysis of old-fashioned sources written by real people, usually on slices of dead tree matter).
Here's an interesting idea. Take Wikipedia's content as of now and fork it. Put up a new Wikipedia which contains exactly the same content but lock it. Call it "Wikipedia Stable Edition". Turn off anonymous contributions and make it so that accounts must be started up with real names - and that someone phones up those real names to check who they are. The real names would be encouraged to put their qualifications up on their page, and someone would phone the universities and check them out.
I am a vegetarian, an atheist, like to code in Ruby and Scala (and Java, but let’s not talk about that), and noodle about with microformats and the Semantic Web.
I have an MA in philosophy from Heythrop College, University of London. My philosophical interests are in analytic metaphysics, ontology, modality, the work of Armstrong, Lewis, Kripke, Russell and Plato. I have a strange, unfulfilled interest in Gadamer’s hermeneutics. I’ve been influenced by Gadamer, by Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Rawls and Nozick.
Musically, I like jazz fusion, soul and P-Funk. My musical nirvana would be a mixture of Beethoven, Miles Davis and George Clinton topped with a side-serving of Erykah, Jill and Angie.
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