October 2008
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“It’s precisely because of the pain, precisely because we want to overcome...”
– Haruki Murakami discussing triathlons in What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, a memoir of sorts by the Japanese writer/runner. He gets at the core of what athletic activity can represent- a chance to fully channel experience through the body, letting all thoughts, save total awareness of the...
Honest Expression- Binary Star
Is this what the presidential campaign has been... →
Fear and Loathing in America, indeed.
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“Which is more important: to attain enlightenment, or to attain enlightenment...”
– DT Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind
Sound, Noise, Music — Grouch & Eligh
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Facebook's End Game?
Facebook, while indispensable as a social utility to a large portion of its 100 MM (and growing) monthly users, is still seen by many as overhyped. Sure, two of Web 2.0’s key developments— the News Feed and the application platform— came from Facebook, but still, at its core, isn’t Facebook Just Another Social Network? How can Zuckerberg & Co. possibly justify the $15...
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Not Another Ad Network!
I believe that we need to figure out a way to unlock the true potential of the web wrt causes for social change and benefit, especially to impact those in third world countries (if such potential even exists, and I believe it does).
The web is extremely powerful for being able to connect up millions of people with similar thoughts, ideas, or intentions, and to facilitate interactions between...
Moratorium on all politics posts
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“History’s third dimension is always fiction.”
– Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game
Editors of the New Yorker lay out the case for... →
What's she actually saying?? →
“ Talking at the debate about how she would “positively affect the impacts” of the climate change for which she’s loath to acknowledge human culpability, she did a dizzying verbal loop-de-loop: “With the impacts of climate change, what we can do about that, as governor, I was the first governor to form a climate change subcabinet to start dealing with the impacts.” “- Maureen Dowd on...
"Sarah Palin sounds like a goddamn intern"
Here’s a sampling of what people on Twitter had to say about the VP debate:
WordAlchemy The only reason Palin exceeded expectations is that the GOP made sure we HAD no expectations. All she had to was breathe and she ‘won’.
jjustin01 Palin seems to be doing nothing more than promoting Alaska as a state and not actually answering questions #current
redrabbit Sarah Palin sounds...
Puppets- Atmosphere
“As the world moves to modular stacks and applications built up from a...”
– Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz
good song to start the day with: Crime &...
The Expectations Game
In politics, sadly, it’s often the case that perception matters more than reality. And a key element of how we perceive a candidate is how they perform based on our expectations. Last week, Sen. Obama battled Sen. McCain to a draw (regardless of protests to the contrary from both sides) in the first presidential debate. However, foreign policy was supposed to McCain’s forte; he was expected...