October 2009
“There are moments in life when it is all turned inside out — what is real...”
– Aleksander Hemon, The Lazarus Project (via ambivalence)
“Asking the Question” is the first step in a formal futures thinking project. At...”
– Jamais Cascio (via chrbutler) (via slantback)
The Suck Less philosophy for software →
mnmal:
Many (open source) hackers are proud if they achieve large amounts of code, because they believe the more lines of code they’ve written, the more progress they have made. The more progress they have made, the more skilled they are. This is simply a delusion.
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Code complexity is the mother of bloated, hard to use, and totally inconsistent software. With complex code, problems are solved...
i think felicia day just ruined absolution gap (a. reynolds) for me.
Greenest Place in the U.S.? It’s Not Where You...
Americans tend to think of dense cities as despoilers of the natural landscape, but they actually help to preserve it. If you spread all 8.2 million New York City residents across the countryside at the population density of Vermont, you would need a space equal to the land area of the six New England states plus New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia — and then, of course, you’d have to...
