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Police 2.0 ...
It has been fashionable in our culture to address undesirable behavior by enacting laws that call for the police to make the bad people that stop doing those bad things by arresting them. For the really, really bad things, like possessing a leaf from a plant which makes you happy if you consume it, we even [...]
Silver Hammer ...
When the pope dies, the cardinal chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the holy Roman Church (currently Eduardo Cardinal Martinez Somalo) ascertains the pope’s death, traditionally by calling the pope three times by his baptismal name without response. The ritual of striking the head with a silver hammer (which would later be used to break the Fisherman’s Ring and [...]
I usually refrain from copying viral blogsphere memes, but it took me a while to hunt down anything meaningful about this
one so I’m noting it here. The supposedly self-evident truth is that word recognition is not based on shape or sequence as usually assumed, but rather mere letter content and the first and last letters. [...]
Vintage Hans ...
The Internet Archive has a record of my first webpage, circa May 13th,
1997.
As previously blogged, my earliest Internet footprint was a Usenet post on April 9th, 1993. Far more entertaining, though, is a thread pondering the impact of an Internet with a VR interface, where a response included “I’ve heard sme very good things about WorldWeb from friends who’ve [...]
iPhone dreams ...