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Occupy Wall Street, Botnets, and Thousand-Year Storms
Looks like traditional political thinkers are missing the mark altogether (the protests are ‘flailing without purpose’, ‘just rage’,’just jealous’ etc). A more useful analytic framework is to think of the protests as a form of a botnet. Why? Because the … Continue reading
Review: Iraq | Perspectives
Iraq | Perspectives (Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography) Not really sure how to review a photography collection, especially if it’s 6 years of a war photographer’s work. But I can tell you that it was a … Continue reading
Review: Domestic Violets
Domestic Violets: A Novel (P.S.) “How have you been, dear?” Helen asks. I decide not to tell her about the erectile dysfunction, the recent layoffs at my company, how my dad has taken to smoking pot in my extra bedroom, … Continue reading
“Quality,” Simonton writes, is “a probabilistic function of quantity.”
A genius is a genius, Simonton maintains, because he can put together such a staggering number of insights, ideas, theories, random observations, and unexpected connections that he almost inevitably ends up with something great. Source -Shlok Sign up for my … Continue reading
Review: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Ready Player One Started at 8, stayed up till midnight, had to have the book wrestled out of my hands, and up at 6 to finish it off by 9. Haven’t done that in a long while. The author tugs … Continue reading