September 2009
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“Big Brother turns out to be Howdy Dowdy.”
– Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death.
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Jamie Zawinski: the netscape dorm. →
Excerpts from Jamie’s diary during the first few months of the existence of Netscape Communications, back when it was called Mosaic.
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“[…] So it is an artificial intelligence software for the missile defense...”
– Random conversation in Boston
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“We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but...”
– Henry David Thoreau
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Joel Spolsky: The Duct Tape Programmer →
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*** Cryptonomicon
Bobby Shaftoe: Enoch, why are you... here?
Enoch Root: Why has my spirit been incarnated into a physical body in this world generally? Or specifically, why am I here in a Swedish forest, standing on the wreck of a mysterious German rocket plane while a homosexual German sobs over the cremated remains of his Italian lover?
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“The reality we can’t bear to look at, however, isn’t hidden groups...”
– Esquire, May 2009