Links for 2007-03-07
- Matt Webb in early 2005 was trying to work out what to do next with his life, and I'm guessing in retrospect feels good about his decision... I wonder whether I'll be the same.
- Stop bitching. Make it better... Something I wrote in 2003 that I still agree with. Nick Carr please take note.
- Whatever happened to Jenny Everywhere, open source superhero? The Barbelith crew were partly behind Jenny Everywhere, and there seemed to be all kinds of activity around her before eventually it all fell apart and disappeared. Quite disappointing...
- What is the origin of the phrase, "Carving nature by its joints"? If anyone knows the answer, I'd really like to know it...
- The BBC's religion site includes a section on the religion of 'atheism'... The best response I've seen was featured on cloudsoup.com, "If atheism is a religion then not collecting stamps is a hobby..."
Comments
Please stay on-topic, informative and polite. I reserve the right to remove comments for whatever vague capricious reasons seem reasonable at the time.
I think the atheism analogy works quite well, actually.
"How about you? Have you got a hobby?"
"Oh, I do this and that. But let me make one thing absolutely clear, I don't collect stamps. I never have collected stamps, I hope I never do collect stamps and, before you ask, I don't feel my life has a stamp-shaped hole in it."
This is why people who don't care much about their ungodliness ungodly like the word 'agnostic' (and also why people who do care don't).
→ Posted by: Phil at March 7, 2007 9:48 AM
Oh, and what's Nick Carr done now?
→ Posted by: Phil at March 7, 2007 9:52 AM
Wow, I just brought up Jenny Everywhere at the Northern Voice conference, during a session nominally about collaborative creativity, but which was really an ad-talk for a closed-source, copyright-enforced, for-profit (but user contributed) comic book.
They had never heard of Jenny Everywhere, and seemed slightly disturbed that I would bring up an open-source comic during their pitch.
→ Posted by: Dethe Elza at March 7, 2007 3:17 PM
As for the Plato quote, you got your answer in the MF thread. Maybe to add that this is in Benjamin Jowett's 19th century translation (and reformulated into a conciser version of Socrates' metaphor). Other translators might have used different terms.
→ Posted by: chris at March 11, 2007 2:21 PM