Monday, September 09, 2002JOHO points to two of Dan Gilmor's columns.
Ten Decisions that Shaped the Net Dan G .... Ten Decisions that Shaped the Net
Dan Gillmor writes up the presentation Scott Bradner — one of the people who has shaped the Internet from the beginning — gave at the stealth conference I was at. Scott's presentation was brilliant and Dan synthesizes it perfectly. If you care about what really made the Internet into what it is, this is must reading.
Dan also points to some pretty durn funny UI humor. [JOHO the Blog]
- Posted by Richard Chlopan - 5:42:16 PM -
More goodness from Dan Gillmor. In a column about what we can do to make our homeland more secure, he says that broadband is central to securing our information infrastructure since it allows data to be distributed rather than clustered in cities. (He also comes up with some crackpot ideas about using renewable energy, conserving, etc. Those West Coasters are just so nutty! ) [JOHO the Blog]
- Posted by Richard Chlopan - 5:39:23 PM -
Good question.
Why is Newsday.com the only place I'm seeing this list (from A.P.) being published? [Steven's Weblog]
- Posted by Richard Chlopan - 5:37:22 PM -
Yin/Yang, Black/White, 0/1.
Nerdiest theology ever. Larry Wall, the inventor of Perl, is being interviewed on Slashdot. One of the questions from the peanut gallery asked him if he really believed in God, and how he reconciled faith and science. His answer is the nerdiest expression of theology I've ever encountered -- and I mean that in a good way.
You can't please God the way Enoch did without some faith, because those who come to God must (minimally) believe that:Link Discuss (Thanks, Pat!) [Boing Boing Blog]A) God exists, and
B) God is good to people who really look for him.That's it. The "good news" is so simple that a child can understand it, and so deep that a philosopher can't.
Now, it appears that you're willing to admit the possibility of bit A being a 1, so you're almost halfway there. Or maybe you're a quarter way there on average, if it's a qubit that's still flopping around like Shoedinger's Cat. You're the observer there, not me--unless of course you're dead. :-)
A lot of folks get hung up at point B for various reasons, some logical and some moral, but mostly because of Shroedinger again. People are almost afraid to observe the B qubit because they don't want the wave function to collapse either to a 0 or a 1, since both choices are deemed unpalatable. A lot of people who claim to be agnostics don't take the position so much because they don't know, but because they don't want to know, sometimes desperately so.
Because if it turns out to be a 0, then we really are the slaves of our selfish genes, and there's no basis for morality other than various forms of tribalism.
And because if it turns out to be a 1, then you have swallow a whole bunch of flim-flam that goes with it. Or do you?
- Posted by Richard Chlopan - 4:19:41 PM -
Sports Injury Clinic is a nice website wit good useful patienet-orieted info on sports injuries.
[Family Medicine Notes] - Posted by Richard Chlopan - 10:00:06 AM -
Amen!
posted by donkeyschlong September 8 5:33 PM | 46 comments. So it's come to this. I don't know about you, but in the midst of various orgies (911, West Nile and kindernappings, to name but a few), I've never hated our media more. [MetaFilter]
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