Mon 18 Apr 2011, 1:53 pm
In a private post on FriendFeed, Dorothea Salo says: So, speaking as a provocateur: “Provocative” is not the same thing as “immune to objections.” You don’t get to hide behind it, PENN STATE. You don’t get to hide behind it, TAIGA. I’ve taken a fair amount of flak for my more provocative writing and speaking. [...]
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Wed 13 Apr 2011, 10:41 am
“Information wants to be free.” It’s such a commonplace as to be virtually meaningless. I wonder if that’s yet another possible reading of the phrase: information wants to be free of meaning. But I recently came across the accepted origin of the phrase, and the additional context has helped me find new life in the [...]
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Mon 4 Apr 2011, 9:27 am
My wife and my friends have raised a collective eyebrow at my latest obsession: mixed martial arts (MMA) fighting, such as the bouts promoted by the UFC. It seems kind of natural to me, growing out of my training in karate for the past year. But I guess when they think of me, they don’t [...]
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