• Trivia and Media

    Joi Ito on Meditation

    by  • April 13, 2007 • Trivia and Media • 0 Comments

    No idea he practiced. I’ve had tangential contact with Joi over the years. Went out for breakfast with him in Aspen with my ex-wife at one point (before she was my wife, never mind my ex-wife.) Really a funny, smart chap. I started talking about my technology at one point and he assumed he’d been [...]

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    First individuals, now companies with foreign policies (Google singling out Darfur)

    by  • April 11, 2007 • Hexayurt, Personal, Trivia and Media • 0 Comments

    Google singles out Darfur for special attention. There are a lot of other crises in the world. By singling out this one, Google is both contributing to helping solve it, and also throwing many other situations into the shadows. As I said before, “I am an individual with a foreign policy.” The new game of [...]

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    Crystal Meth, a user’s guide

    by  • April 9, 2007 • Trivia and Media • 0 Comments

    Demented. Reads very much like an advert for Shabu – 95% pure Chinese crystal meth. Much as I like honest reporting from the front line of the war on drugs (“can’t we declare a truce? how’s about armistice for at least the dope smokers?”) to have some integrity, this story really needed to follow these [...]

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    Baby duck feeds carp

    by  • April 5, 2007 • Trivia and Media • 1 Comment

    Yeah. I know. But you spend your days thinking about global poverty and starvation, digital identity management and how, if we screw up, we get digital/biometric totalitarianism, and how it’s up to individuals to act… And you need this from time to time <laughs>.

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