“Computers can control you or they can lighten your work — if you want to be in charge of your machines, you have to learn to write code.”
—Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
September 2008
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August 2008
22 posts
“It is difficult to imagine a more archetypal instance of the press informing the public of government operations through government records than Ostergren’s posting of public records to demonstrate the lack of care being taken by government to protect the private information of individuals”
—Judge lets privacy advocate keep Social Security numbers on Web site
“43 Folders is powered by Drupal, which rules. Our site was designed by a bearded fella from Wire and Twine and has been lovingly skinned for Drupal by the code ninjas at RoopleTheme.”
—43 Folders
“We need a special holiday to honor the countless kind souls with unsecured networks named ‘linksys’.”
—“Moving” -xkcd
“According to the book, US pet food companies spent more on R&D last year than US utilities did.”
—Thomas Friedman Calls for a Green Energy Revolution
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“if you’re a 30- or 40-something guy with a few more pounds and a few less hairs than you’d like, it’s hard to look anything but 25 in mangaland”
—The GeekDads Get Manga
“Please have your massive amounts of data and applied mathematics provide us with nuclear fusion by this weekend.”
—The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete
“We have in this country a major crisis of people listening to people they feel comfortable with (rather than) listening to a variety of groups and critically thinking through their messages”
—Are we science-savvy enough to make informed decisions?
“Don’t worry, Dad. A family of dorks will come along any minute.”
—The Case Against Crocs
“You’ve got these subatomic particles accelerated at great speeds for the sole purpose of being destroyed. No one thinks of the ethical implications of this”
—Group Protests Treament of Hadrons at CERN
