Daily Archives: 08-12-20

Organic intellectual

By m3t00 | Published: 08-12-20
If obfuscation were an Olympic sport Shirky would pwn it: What the Web does is that it does what all amateur increases do, which is it decreases the average quality of what’s available. He continues: It is exactly, precisely, the complaint made about the printing press. Exactly, precisely the same—just six hundred years earlier. See [...]
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Camelots for all

By m3t00 | Published: 08-12-20
David Post on Caroline Kennedy: December 16, 2008 Jerry MacArthur Hultin President, Polytechnic Institute of New York Dear Pres. Hultin: I am writing to inform you that I have decided to offer myself for consideration for the Chaired Professorship in Physics and Chemistry at your distinguished institution. As you are no doubt aware, my father, [...]
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Markets in bears, not in bulls

By m3t00 | Published: 08-12-20
A curious detail in the NYT’s survey of the Madoff malware (“Madoff Scheme Kept Rippling Outward, Across Borders,” 19 Dec ’08): The only thing that struck the Swiss banker as odd was the bull memorabilia strewn about his office. “It seemed strange for a guy to have all these bulls, little sculptures, paintings of bulls,” [...]
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