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This is an interesting video from the Network Neutrality movement, less for their rapidly developing martyr complex, than for their explanation of how previous media types (print, radio, etc.) have historically evolved from meshwork markets into hierarchic anti-markets. (I’m borrowing terminology from Manuel De Landa’s excellent A Thousand Years of Non-Linear History).
I finally managed to read through Wired’s New Atheism article. While I’ve learned to be more respectful of christians than i was in the first few years after leaving the church, that’s really only true of christians i know personally. Christianity as a whole isn’t deserving of any more respect than my own [...]
Pop Quiz!
for each of the following items, tell me whether they are art or design:
CSS House 2
CSS Zen Garden
Joshua Davis’ Work for the BMW Z4
Mies Van Der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion
Frank Ghery’s Jay Pritzker Pavilion
The distinction between art and design is semantic and objective. There is no aesthetic consideration in distinguishing one from the other. Design [...]
The internet is equalizing music. And erasing the lies that soundscan told us. but mocking music doesn’t get it. They’re still holding on to an idyllic world dependent on distribution channels that held music hostage for so long. This, despite statistics showing that musicians make better money elsewhere. Supporting [...]
9 - You feel insulted and “dehumanized” when scientists say that people evolved from other life forms, but you have no problem with the Biblical claim that we were created from dirt.
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