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Heavy weather
Not good for the computers. Also inconvenient for getting Everything done before I leave for Linux World Expo in New York next week. I'm on a plane at dawn tomorrow. Whoa Jesse! There's a new sherriff at ZDNet's Anchordesk (formerly Jesse Berst's Anchordesk), and he's as different form Jesse Berst as John Ashcroft is from Janet Reno. Jesse was a "Yes Sir, No Ma'am" kind of lawman, but David Coursey's got a ballsy strut and sharp spurs on his boots. Today he's talking about a political "Hacker Party" modeled on the European Greens, but driven by the get-it-done and do-it-right wing of the technology commuity. Aside from the fact that he fails to source any actual hackers, or to mention the Patent Issue (ironically recommending John Doerr, who loves patents, as a party leader), he's got some not-bad ideas in there. At the very least he's one of the few mainstream writers who doesn't equate hackers with criminals. So where's a picture of the title? Explodingdog.com is by a guy named sam who draws pictures of headlines. I think. Um... just go check it out. There was life from below after all Interesting to revisit John Perry Barlow's Death From Above after 50,000 years of Internet Time. I was overheard to have said... I just submitted a rather long piece to Kuro5hin. It's a fresh take on stuff I've written about in Linux Journal and elsewhere, about how the software industry is maturing into something much more like the construction industry from which it borrows so much of its vocabulary. The piece opens with a long digression into cognitive linguistics. I do that partly to make a case for my software=construction thesis, and partly because it's one of my missions in life to make cognitive linguistics comprehensible to The Rest of Us, along with myself. The subject matters. As George Lakoff says, Metaphors can kill. Of course bombs are more effective, but we wouldn't use so many of them if we weren't busy borrowing the language of war to talk about everything else.
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