September 2011
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Sep 30th
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The Ihnatko Corollary
I hereby dub this the Ihnatko Corollary of Internet Security. A personal VPN won’t save you from the Internet, but it doesn’t hurt - Chicago Sun-Times: Always assume that you know nothing, and that anything you do on the Internet will inevitably end in tears. Because that’s probably closest to the truth. (Via his own column at the Chicago Sun-Times) In other news, Andy and Dan Benjamin...
Sep 26th
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Theo Jansen's Strandbeest
This video showing off Jansen’s “kinetic sculptures” is from Wallace & Gromit’s World of Invention Episode 1 Preview on BBC One. Very cool. People are smart.
Sep 25th
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Walden - Chapter 2
Watching Dead Poets Society for the 1,336,865,623th time. Thanks Dish. Walden - Chapter 2: I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise...
Sep 25th
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Sep 25th
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