When I joined the army, the sarge at base camp tol us 'say hi to your new girlfriend. for the next three year you'll be sleeping with her.' and so we did.

Wendy - any comment on Calyton's suggestion that you borrowed his style?

(Boing Boing, I can see why you don't trackback the web, but maybe consider it for your own posts)

phew, and with bender's resignation (http://www.olpcnews.com/people/leadership/walter_bender_resignation.html) the low cost scene is becoming the best show in town.

Open source is about freedom of choice and ownership. If people are free to choose, they are also free to make bad choices - such as running windows on their nice little low cost laptop.

The other side of the equation is, of course, they should be free to run the copy of OS they bought on any hardware they choose. To be honest, I'm not worried: a) I doubt it will hold in court. b) even if it will, it won't hold in real life. Vendors will simply make it easy to upgrade machines after purchase. The only snag is the touch screen.

Yesterday on Hampstead Heath I saw some notice about the Met's plans to install CCTV cameras there. On the Heath. Coming soon - two way TV in your bedroom.

http://bp2.blogger.com/_CegfFEMOEVo/Rw4evXbBh6I/AAAAAAAAATU/BYtmWuq7ucQ/s1600-h/CCTV.jpg

or could it be that the coppers need a new glossary of pre-teen netspeak, where words like pimping, stalking and friending have an accurate contemporary definition?

a few samples here:
http://www.mdf.ru/english/exhibitions/moscow/biennale2008/jakrlova/

a few samples here:
http://www.mdf.ru/english/exhibitions/moscow/biennale2008/jakrlova/

The power of a campaign is proportional to the mount of human effort that goes into it. Internet petitions are pointless, because everyone knows each signature is worth 15 man/seconds. This, on the other hand, makes it possible for dedicated individuals to have a targeted impact. It does not replace human effort, it just focuses it like a laser beam. ingenious.

real men use vi. (I use whatever I find on the computer in front of me)

The things that puzzles / fascinates me is, how do you get the word out to exactly the 400 people who don't have anything better to do on that Sunday afternoon, and have the right mix exhibitionism, herd instinct, non-conformism and anti-bourgeois urge.

Who said (and I misquote, as usual) understand twitter, and you understand humanity.

unicorn!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/momo0214/2196686309/

@48 KENNRIC, this is the internet. qed. however, some people haven't even read Cory's summary - as illustrated by the contribution of links to Clay's Harvard talk.

I find it poetic that comments on Clay's blog are broken (http://www.herecomeseverybody.org/2008/04/comments-broken.html) and its really no big deal. Pub bell rung? take the conversation on to the next one down the street.

@50 Stefan Jones: mea culpa. and I didn't even know I was quoting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Sturgeon#Sturgeon.27s_Law

See, stick around and you learn something. Wouldn't get that on Archie.

knifie_sp00nie et al, the universal law of everything hasn't changed:

95% of everything is crap.

The difference is that we've changed, from passive consumers of 95% crap and 5% quality, to producers of the same. Which has several effects:
a) there's much more of everything, crap as well as quality.
b) both crap and quality are more diverse
c) ownership is distributed.

consequently, the half-life of crap is rapidly converging to 0, and the access we all have to quality is constantly growing.

Hey, Antinous - don't knock the cats:
http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2008/03/08/the-cute-cat-theory-talk-at-etech/

Apropos Clay's title, couldn't help thinking of Hogarth:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gin_Lane

Beer Street and Gin Lane are two prints issued in 1751 by English artist William Hogarth in support of what would become the Gin Act. Designed to be viewed alongside each other, they depict the evils of the consumption of gin as a contrast to the merits of drinking beer.

Gives a whole new dimension to "free as in beer"

(full text: http://yishaym.wordpress.com/2008/04/26/blog-street-and-tv-lane/)

and MP3 of Clay's talk @ the RSA (London)
http://www.rsa.org.uk/audio/lecture180308a.mp3

pure beauty. this thing is crying: API, API, API!

and http://www.writetothem.com/ has a simple interface for writing to them (made by the same good people of http://mysociety.org)

and here's the MP3 from Clay's recent London gig at the RSA:
http://www.thersa.org/audio/lecture180308a.mp3

(from http://www.thersa.org/audio/index.asp)

see you when she's 5.

thanks! heard him at the RSA in London last week. Clay is one of those rare people who has deep and original ideas, can express them in writing so that my mother would understand them yet I would not be bored, and can give a damn good stage performance. I never saw anyone handle questions so well.

I thought crisis was a temporary state.

I wanted to say: "yes, and let's not forget who's providing the filtering tools". But then I realized you're the one who's said that first:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/09/opinion/09jardin.html?

(found on http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2008/03/12/companies-enabling-censorship/)

with all the calls for boycotting china, shouldn't we take consumer action against these companies?

some of these just beg to be recreated as robots.
(p.s. direct link to the full archive http://ningyodo.library.pref.osaka.jp/)

ok, I want to see who can translate the whole thing in real time. no peeping. no google or urban dictionary. go!

And here's a contemporary variation (though US focused)

thanks!

I saw it here last night and thought something's wrong about these stairs. Are you supposed to walk on the books?

Now I realize what sleep deprivation and skewed photography angles can do to your brain.

very fine news indeed. a big Mazel Tov to the three of you. London's a great place to raise kids. Free museums, good, healthy multi-cultural state schools. One thing I remember about newborns: the first month is the hardest. Just hang in there until you get that first smile, then its happy sailing.

p.s.

FoetusNail - "home where mommies and babies belong!" are you sure you meant that like it sounds? I take serious offence here, and say dads! stand up for your rights!

thanks. I always said everyone passes through London, now there's hard data to back that.

Idiots. Why don't they learn from civilized nations? If you fear some miserable third world collapsing economy is on the brink of developing some technology that will tip the balance:

• fabricate evidence.


• bomb it to stone age


• occupy it for 5-15 years


• appologise for fabricating evidence, but by now - who cares?


• start looking for an exit stratagy

I'm no fan of Israeli policy, but please enlighten me: isn't this a report about a defensive system? And please, spare me your knee-jerk reactions. I'm too tired to care.

all your jokes are belong to us.