Singularity - In another 100 years (sans major wars, famines, or diseases) computers will be unimaginably smarter than humans and other advances in sciences like biotech and nanotech will have made our physical bodies irrelevant. This seems like common sense to me. In fact, I don’t argue with the people who say it […]
Real Honkers do Real Things - “The manifesto of Honker maintains the reunification of the motherland! Guards the national sovereignty! Outside consistent resistance shame! Attack anti-Chinese arrogance!”. Is it just me, or doesn’t this just blow away “All Your Base are Belong to Us”? All your base was a fun meme; but these […]
Polarization? - Craig Burton is usually cool about checking his facts before posting things, but his latest commentary on open source has me questioning some things. Mostly I take issue with the presuppositions supposited liberally throughout the article. For those who are not familiar with the rude device known as presupposition, consider the […]
Stick to Journalism - Thomas C. Greene does what cDc wants and passes on the news of the upcoming PeekABooty tool. It is slightly newsworthy that someone is working on “yet another anonymous browsing tool”. The fact that cDc has some people like dilldog who are actually capable of shipping good software means […]
Conversations - Doc Searls is having a conversation about open source vs. shared source (or was it “scared source”). One interesting quote: “I’d add that the argument would be a lot easier to watch — and a lot more useful — if the credit -takers were not also discredit-givers.” And you have to […]