A shot of JD

May 20

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We must concede that though we can maintain the paths of URIs over the lifetime of a service, most domain names are inevitably ephemeral. A two year registration to host a joke, a fifteen year registration to build a company. All will be resold.

What to do? We need to not fight the fragility. We need to look at the very heart of the web, the directory that connects the names of our services to the servers they run on, and we need to apply the concept of the Wayback Machine to it. We need temporal DNS, maintainable by librarians to keep the domains of the past connected to their archived futures. Your DNS provider as Time Lord*; rather than searching for what Geocities was like, picking a date at the DNS level could route all of your internet traffic through 1998.

” Building the Great Libraries of the Internet with a DNS time machine · Ben Ward (via iamdanw)

(via iamdanw)

May 19

“An article that appeared in the New York Times on December 26, 2011, ‘Navigating Love and Autism’ by Amy Harmon, described how a young woman with Asperger syndrome used My Little Pony characters to relieve stress. She visualized the character Twilight Sparkle whenever she ‘found herself in a bad-mood rut’. The story misidentified Twilight Sparkle as Fluttershy on initial publication and the paper issued a correction, which some journalists have jokingly considered as ‘the best New York Times correction ever’, though others saw it as a sign of the journalistic integrity of the Times.” Wikipedia

May 14

(via Boing Boing)

“Ozone depletion over the South Pole would have been detected years earlier except for the fact that the satellite data recording the low ozone readings had outlier-rejection code that automatically screened out the “outliers” (that is, the low ozone readings) before the analysis was conducted. Such inadvertent (and incorrect) purging went on for years. It was not until ground-based South Pole readings started detecting low ozone readings that someone decided to double-check as to why the satellite had not picked up this fact—it had, but it had gotten thrown out!” Histogram Interpretation

May 13

Who Is Better At Ruining A Music Documentary, David Fricke Or Thurston Moore?

May 10

“How would those who work in all those other Co-op businesses feel about any profits they generate being poured into the bank, thus limiting the ability of their operations to expand?” BBC News - What does Moody’s downgrade of Co-op bank mean?

Apr 5

“Regressives sincerely believe the rich will work harder if they have even more, and the poor will work harder if they have even less. I debated a conservative economist yesterday who said unemployment insurance reduced the incentive of the unemployed to look for jobs (even now when three people are out of work for every job that’s available) and that the House Republican budget cuts in programs for the poor would motivate them to get out of poverty. But he was equally adamant that the wealthy would work harder if their taxes were reduced, and that even the rather small tax increase enacted in January on the very rich would reduce their motivation. When I pointed out the inconsistency of his positions, he shifted ground, and began fulminating about how the jobless and poor don’t ‘deserve handouts’ and the wealthy should be able to ‘keep their own money’. This is a typical regressive ploy. They start with behavioral and psychological arguments about incentives — the poor need fear, the rich need greed — but then, when confronted with the contradiction, shift to their moral views about who ‘deserves’ what. Sometimes when I debate regressives I feel as though I’m wrestling greased pigs.” Robert Reich (via azspot)

(via azspot)

Apr 2

“America’s youth has never been more overstimulated, and some think that the medical community is responding to what’s essentially a social condition with a pharmaceutical solution — and a very profitable one at that.” Adderall Is Spreading Fast (via azspot)

(via azspot)

Mar 31

Scientology and psychiatry

Mar 25

Blogging is hard...let's go podcasting.

I’ve long maintained lists of things I’d like to research more, think on a bit, and maybe even blog about. The problem is, I’m rubbish at finding the time and energy to write these things up with any sort of regularity.

My awesome friend Francis is better than me at writing up his ideas and experiences, but still has lots of topics he’s yet to get around to blogging. He’s experimented with using Audioboo as a quick and easy way to get his thoughts out into the world, but more often than not we simply end up talking about them in Liverpool’s coffee shops.

So why not record these conversations and stick ‘em online? Named after one of my lists, Crazy theories.txt is a lo-fi podcast which I pretentiously hope will capture some of the value of our weekend cognitive surplus ;-)

Here’s the Feedburner page where you can subscribe and read show notes, or you can download an MP3 of the first episode.

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Blogging is hard...let's go podcasting.