Jeffrey Zeldman ponders the appeal of travel as a
reenactment of
childhood.
[Part of an unfinished memoir about Istanbul. Found via Ryan.]
Monthly Archives: November 2003
Coming of age
November 30, 2003 – 12:00 am
Memetic dreams
November 28, 2003 – 12:00 am
I presently have 178 feeds in NetNewsWire. About 80 of those are in a disorganized soup that I wade through only as time permits. That still leaves almost a hundred that have been deemed worthwhile and I aggregate for regular reading in subject groups that have evolved over time (Friends, St. Louis, Geek, […]
Iron Barley
November 28, 2003 – 12:00 am
Thanks to repeated praises on the StLouIST when it opened in June, we finally visited Tom Coghill’s Iron Barley tonight. All the reviews were accurate, this is the sort of neighborhood atmosphere and genuine cuisine that Applebee’s mocks. It’s great to experience a smokey restaurant where the smoke comes not from cigarettes but […]
Client servers communicating with server servers through clients
November 26, 2003 – 12:00 am
Adam Bosworth has been discussing his vision of a disconnected browser, a client of web services that enables offline operations and synchronizes with server applications when connected. His latest discussion brought to mind an application I wrote shortly after joining my present company in 1999.
This particular application was an SFA tool used by sales […]
Open minds
November 25, 2003 – 12:00 am
The provocative bigfoot ponders why being open minded might be an impediment to
learning. He’s clearly trying to provoke me, but I’m too weak to resist.
Human learning does include a good amount of filtering. The distinction he has missed, though, is that closing our mind to new ideas is not the right sort of […]
Is tolerance natural
November 24, 2003 – 12:00 am
Besides erecting up a straw man who believes in utopia, the pseudononymous Yeti asserts that tolerance is not natural. This is understandable: sociobiology, evolutionary psychology, selfish gene theory, and other attempts to understand human nature indicate this on the surface: it is only in our interest to permit the existence of others who are […]
worldKit
November 23, 2003 – 12:00 am
worldKit is a fascinating Flash app for the display of geographic information. I’ve been fiddling with using it to present photo libraries, but Mikel has already prototyped a killer app.
They are a menace-
November 23, 2003 – 12:00 am
They must be dangerous if they are not us. This little rant against tolerance rests on a cynical premise: any form of difference in belief or practice must involve a dominance relationship, involving the strong deciding whether to tolerate the weak. Tolerance is not reserved for the society that dominates the tolerated; rather, […]
Puppetry
November 23, 2003 – 12:00 am
Forget LoJack, just let Big Brother install a remote control, in case your vehicle ever becomes a threat
to homeland security. [via Qaddisin]
A maze of twisty passages, all alike-
November 20, 2003 – 12:00 am
Dallas/Fort Worth bills itself as “The Airport of Choice.” I can’t say I disagree. No other airport has ever faced me with so many choices, each with the sense that a wrong decision will lead to a path with no escape towards making your flight.
Selecting the right shuttle involves looking up your terminal […]