I love all paradoxes. The only paradox I hate is the fact that I love all paradoxes. (har har.) Anyway, I've been thinking about them because I stumbled across Berry's Paradox: "'The least integer not nameable in fewer than nineteen syllables." Really makes you stop thinking.
ZDNet: Ego Finds A New Outlet In 'Blogs': "As we get more mobile, it will be easier and easier to put spontaneous thoughts out there," Merholz says. "The increasing omnipresence of the Internet will allow for the publishing of thought pretty much as it occurs."
reminds me of blogs: "It is not entrails that we try to interpret these days, nor even hearts or facial expressions; it is, quite simply, the brain. We want to expose to view its billions of connections and watch it operating like a video game...All that fascinates us is the spectacle of the brain and its workings. What we are wanting here is to see our thoughs unfolding before us – and this itself is a superstition." - John Baudrillard from America.
crazy. (everything is still on here. but for how long?)
why do I always leave stuff at home? today I forgot my headphones. Last week it was a network card. Often it's the network card dongle. On particularly bad days, I've forgotten my laptop altogether. (but that hasn't happened since I stopped putting my backpack in my trunk. Out of sight, out of mind. Out of sight, might not be there.)
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just when the weather turns nice, my health turns bad. ugh. In other news, the latest issue of Brill's Content (I'm now forgiving them for past pissing-me-offs [I realize this makes me sound like a grudge-holding cranky old man {eg. "60 minutes? Shut that off! I've been mad at them since Andy Roony blasted the mail delivery service back in '56. The mail gets here just fine, dammit!"}]...and I still subscribe) has a great article by Ralph Nader about the past election. It also has a scathing indictment of the TV news folks and their combined (probably illegal) election results service. And now, back to feeling sick. And it wasn't caused by this election info. I think.
more IT related news: A revolutionary new wheelchair. (this was one of Kamen's earlier (related?) inventions.)
oh yeah, and the power crisis continues. Rolling blackouts start at 4pm. If you're in California and reading this today, go shut off a light somewhere. You're taxing the grid, man. (Diablo Canyon 1, why can't you be more like Diablo Canyon 2?)
this storm is some of the worst weather I've seen since I moved to CA. As I drove to San Francisco this morning, my windshield wipers couldn't keep up with the horizontal rain the wind was throwing around. The palm trees along the Embarcadero were shivering. If you stand outside for two minutes your clothes get completely soaked, and the wind simply eats umbrellas. So yeah, the rain sucks. But the sound of the rain on the roof is calming.
Have you heard about IT? this must be IT. [via the clever boingboing] (this device is hated by the knights who say ni!)
