Yes, it’s a #chicken. I bake one like this for Ann almost every week. #stilltesting #food
Links For My ACA Friends
So that I could just put it all in one place… Little Green Boat – the poem I mentioned I wrote that describes how everybody in the neighborhood knew what was going on except us kids...
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Eulogy For Harvey Schatzkin
Arthur, Harvey and Paul ca. 1953. The kid on the right is the only one still living. Not shown: mother Ellen, sister Dorothy aka Dotsie _________________________________ September 30, 1958 Ellen has...
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Coming Soon: TBWIT – The Audiobook!
More than fifty years after I first heard of Philo T. Farnsworth (in the summer if 1973)… More than twenty years after The Boy Who Invented Television was first published… And a year...
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How’s This for Dark Thoughts?
Once again, on the subject of why we can’t have the keys to the Cosmic Ferrari… I am preparing a presentation for a conference in North Carolina in June. Consider this the...
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My Family Thinks I’m Crazy
As you all know by now, it has been my privilege to be interviewed on several podcasts over the past few months, finally fulfilling my lifelong delusion that someday, somebody might think I have...
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‘Tis The (new) Season (2)
Just a few days later… This morning, the Bradford Pears are fully bloomed. In fact, on some of the trees in the neighborhood, the blossoms had already fallen and been replaced by their green...
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Joe and Nick and… Me!
Thanks to Jesse Michels (@AlchemyAmerican) for my first “joint appearance” with @joerogan and @iamnickcook as we all speculate about the deployment of the Biefeld-Brown effect in the B2 Stealth...
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This is for the vast legion of subscribers to my e-mail list.
A couple of months ago, you started receiving an e-mail notification whenever I’ve posted something new to this blog/site – typically once a week.
Starting now, I intend to post a lot more to this site. Rather than giving all of my best stuff away on Facebook, etc., I’m going to post it here first, and then distribute to my social media networks.
So starting at about noon today – Wednesday January 22, 2014 – you’re going to be receiving one weekly missive from me with links to the seven or so best things I have posted in the previous week. Some of the items will be links and comments; hopefully there will be a weekly ~1200 word essay, you’ll get some photos, and maybe a link to some new music. Whatever strikes my fancy during the week and makes it through the Wednesday filter.
If you are unclear what you are subscribing to, read this.
Frigid #Sunset in West Bumfuque #Nashville
The answer to all your web-integration prayers #ifttt
LIstening to this excellent discussion of the issues around “Net Neutrality. It’s amusing to hear the guy from VerizonCast going through verbal gymnastics to make the case that more corporate control of the web is in the end-user’s interest. His organization is called “Free State Foundation.” A loving nod to Orwell…
http://ift.tt/1heemUM
The “level playing field” of the Internet, that is.
If you’ve been befuddled by the recent Appeals Court decision on the subject of “Net Neutrality,” Michael Wolff does a pretty good job of explaining what it could mean.
Power begets power and enables you to hold onto power. Owners of the pipes can charge what the market will bear. …Though Netflix will have to pay much more for distribution, it is large enough to be able to afford that bill. Its nascent and would-be competitors cannot. And without access to low-cost distribution
It’s not entirely clear that this loss of “neutrality” is a final ruling. It could yet go to the Supreme Court – though given that august body’s preferential treatment of corporate interests, it’s hard to fathom how the Appeals Court ruling could be reversed; Or the FCC could revisit its own mandate, and recast their original ruling under a different mandate.
The genesis of the recent ruling appears to be the jurisdiction under which the FCC originally ruled that ISPs like Comcast, AT&T an Verizon could not charge for access to their networks:
The court just invalidated the way the FCC tried to make Net Neutrality rules in a 2010 order. The judges rejected the legal framework used by the FCC and said the agency currently lacks the authority to implement and to enforce these rules…The silver lining is that there’s nothing in the court’s decision that prevents the FCC from reversing its earlier misguided decisions and treating broadband under the law as the “telecommunications service” it so obviously is.
So the fact of the matter is that nothing has been decided. We’re in limbo. The FCC could go back to the drawing board, in which case the whole thing would be up in the air again for years.
I can’t count the number of times over the past two decades I’ve heard the phrase “level playing field.” I always did think it was a bit of a mirage. If the FCC can’t find away to enforce the idea of the pipes as common carrier, even the mirage will probably vanish.
I just taught my word processor(s) to spell the word “eclecticist.”
That was just after adding the expression “exploring the adjacent possible” to my weekly vocabulary.
You really can’t appreciate how much you rely on the very tip of your primary-hand index finger until you nick it with the super-sharp blade of a brand-new food* processor, and can’t use it for a couple of days to swipe or type…
*the original version of this post had the word typed as “foot-processor.” See what I mean?
Shared from Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind (The 99U Book Series)
When you give yourself frequent permission to explore the “adjacent possible” with no restrictions on where it leads, you increase the likelihood of a creative breakthrough in all areas of your life and work.
This is a pretty even handed treatment of the Google/Nest acquisition, despite the seemingly inflammatory opening: “Let’s get it out of the way right at the top: Google is a creepy company that’s only getting creepier with its hideous camera glasses and driverless ghost cars… it’s a creepy exercise anytime you sit and think about all the data you just hand over to this face-cam-wearing company on a daily basis…. But once all the jokes on Twitter die down, this is a super smart move on Google’s part…”