January 2012
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“Never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by ignorance.”
– Oscar Wilde
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An update to my "unintended consequences" post...
Fuck.
It looks like I might’ve been right.
At least if this twitter feed chronicling “OMFG WIKIPEDIA IS DOWN” tweets is any indicator…
If you’re wondering which post I’m talking about, clickest thou hither. Bring a lunch… it’s a long read.
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SOPA Blackouts & The Law of Unintended...
I’m going to make a bold prediction.
I’m going to predict that these SOPA blackouts that are slated to begin in 3(ish) hours backfire.
I don’t know… maybe I’ve just become jaded in my old age, but something in the pit of my stomach tells me that there are going to be unintended consequences attached to this event. There are two potential disaster scenarios that I...
December 2011
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Food for Thought, NYE Edition
Greetings associates.
Just a quick reminder… if you get totally piss drunk tonight, please don’t drive.
I just drove past three motorcycles piled atop one another at the intersection of Flamingo and Rainbow here in lovely Las Vegas. I don’t know if alcohol was involved there, and I wasn’t about to pull over and ask Metro (it looked like they had enough to deal with), but...
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A (mostly) true story...
A conversation between a father and his son…
Son: “Daddy, who was president when you were born?”
Father: “Jimmy Carter” Son: “Was Jimmy Carter a good president?” Father: “No, he wasn’t a very good president at all.”
Son: “So he was kinda like Obama, right?”
“I count religion but a childish toy, And hold there is no sin but ignorance.”
– Machiavel, The Jew of Malta, “Prologue” Written by Christopher Marlowe
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September 2011
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“An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.”
– Voltaire