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| Saturday, August 21, 2004 |
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Xtreme Online Camping 
| | We just looked for an ideal campsite for next weekend, then reserved it online (the only way, believe it or not) out here in South Nowhere, using the cell phone as a bluetooth bridge. Niiice. |
| | ... and now we're moving down the road (paused momentarily to type this up), listening to Rockabilly Radio, over a Belkin Bridge to the FM band. Cool. Now we're tuned in to Jambalaya Jam. Other than KPIG/KPYG (which we can sort of get here), there's nothing on the ordinary radio like this. |
| | This is so fucking cool and liberating I can't stand it. Pounding the steering wheel along with the music while I drive the old Subaru down the Santa Ynez Valley toward the sunset... |
Fighting words
Weak end conditions
| | As the summer drowses schoolward, a few links for your weekend, while I get ready to go off and have fun with the kid... |
| | Is this what you want to leave behind in the brains of your potential customers, management, or staff? Yet another twist on flaming logos? |
| | ...the longest stretch of time that I have experienced with a sub-28.8 dialup connection for nearly a decade. |
| | I just walked by a crowded Local 506 and heard "no fucking clapping, you assholes" from the stage. |
| | Chuck Digate: I may be inspired to be more prolific myself. Who would have thought? |
| | Want to really get a blawger on a roll? Writing a headline or story that superficially, inaccurately, or sensationalistically looks at a legal decision will do it every time. |
| | Information wants to be free in the same way that nature abhors a vacuum. It's not some moral view, it's the natural state of affairs. It¹s the path of least resistance. And with communication tools becoming more and widely available, information is finding it easier and easier to be in it¹s natural, free state. |
| | Don Marti says Information wants to be $6.95. (Although Apple and Real have recently discounted certain degraded forms of information to $.99 and $.49.) |
| | The difference is that between communication and commodity. When we inform somebody, we don't just "deliver" a fixed sum of "content." We literally change the other person. We cause them to know something they didn't know before. We literally form them. The respect we gain for this is the incalculable grace we call "authority." To be an authority is to have the right to form the thoughts and beliefs of other human beings. Not just to "brand" the hides of their minds with the name of some product. Nor to "deliver content" to their wide-open ears and eyes. |
| | We are all authors of each other. But that doesn't mean you have to sign your work. Or that any of it weighs any more than the pixels it's printed on. |
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