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Geek test

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There are 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don't

The Pirate Bay against the publishing industry

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Nobody is crying that people who used to go around selling ice to people do not have a job anymore because of the fridge --Peter Sunde, The Pirate Bay Now go think (while you download!)

Technology Review: A Smarter Web

One comment Blogosphere + Quotations + Web 2.0

Reading Technology Review magazine (yes paper edition and not web!) about Web 3.0 and semantic web, I came accross a quotationn by Mark Greaves, former IEO of DARPA, now Sr. Research Program Manager of Vulcan that goes: What we’re trying to do with the Semantic Web is build a digital Aristotle. Not ...

Rethink yourself

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"Who is in charge, you or your gadgets?" --Xavier Vergés (xdexavier.blogspot.com)

Peanuts philosophy

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"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia." --Charles Schultz

who’s the copycat

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"Which is really ironic is that MS copied Apple's OS, Apple copied Xerox's GUI and mouse, and Xerox, well Xerox just copies...." --posted by slide @ wired.com

the nature of public relations

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"Reality must take precedence over public relations, for Mother Nature cannot be fooled." —Richard P. Feynman

freedom of press?

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“Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.” —AJ Liebling

perception is reality

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This sounds as if taken from one of the meta-philosophical dialogs fom The Matrix but it’s not. Check out Desperate Housewives season 2 episode 16. “Perception is reality. If people perceive that I have a drinking problem then I’m an alcoholic” -Brie Van de Kamp. Desperate Housewives, season 2 episode 16.

warhol revisited

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Andy Warhol said everyone would be famous for 15 minutes. That was in the TV days. In the blogging era he would probably say: "everyone will be famous for 15 people". The quotation is actually from Momus, a successful blogger and a not so successful musician, first published in a Swedish fanzine ...

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