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• 27-Oct-2024

  
  Misc: Links and videos and commentary which may compel thee I had not seen this repost of Mother Earth Mother Board, an article by Neal Stephenson from Eric Meyer and I’m glad to see it now. It reminds me I put up a repost of Stephenson’s In the Beginning Was The Command Line in 1999 and it’s still up. The notes from this past week’s...

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• 10-Apr-2024

  
  Roach Motels and Floppy Idioms If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe – Carl Sagan Yesterday in the hallways of chat of the IndieWeb people were comparing an upcoming Facebook API pondering a “data roach motel.” The history of companies providing an easy to use and free API as they roll...

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• 23-Mar-2010

  
  Which American Accent Do You Have? “Or maybe you just moved around a lot growing up.” That sounds right. In Islands in the Net I think Sterling refers to the homogenization of American accents as the result of the flattening aspects of “the net.” Net English, I think it how he describes it. Consuming a lot of media–television–I’m sure has had...

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