inertiacrept reflects on culture and stuff.

In a sense, I don't understand diversity at all ( Read more... )

I have heard it said that the definition of class is listening to the William Tell Overture and not thinking of the Lone Ranger. Of course, I always think of a Clockwork Orange, so maybe that's not entirely accurate. And it's probably a bit dated now ( Read more... )

3 vox invites. Need a name and e-mail address to send them. Name doesn't need to be real. First three comments.

ETA: name on Vox is Kiztent

resolute posted a link to something called ' continual partial attention'. I think it bears more thought, so that's all for now.

mlewys linked the 95 geek theses, which I haven't decided what I think about it yet.

An army study on asymmetric warfare. Key finding: when the war means everything to the small country and nothing (or little) to the small country, ( Read more... )

A while ago, theferrett would post periodic 'pimp my write' posts. Basically, everyone would post and link what they felt their best post in the last month was ( Read more... )

Recently, I had a college intern start working for me. One his first day, we went and had lunch together. We talked a bit, and he confessed he wasn't really sure about what he wanted to do with his life. In a sense, I can certainly sympathize with that, but on the other hand, I'm not sure I can really help with that either ( Read more... )

I was reading on the train to work this morning, and I ran across a few bit of prose in the book that disturbed me ( Read more... )

So, I was reading a linked story about opposition to the British Identity Card.

Meanwhile on Terra Nova, there's a discussion about the level of trust people display in public. I know when I was doing some field ersearch on what the hell emo is anyway, which took me over to myspace, I encountered people who would post their phone numbers in ( Read more... )

One of the neat things about famous quotes is that if you look around enough, you can find a quote that will support anything you can think of ( Read more... )