Owens L'ill Slice of the Web

I’m just going to go be a good McCitizen now.
~Verteiron

“I like Christmas, it’s a time to be with the family..
but it has it’s good side too.”
- Ozzy Osbourne

“When I fought to protect my land and my home, I was called a savage.
When I neither understood nor welcomed this way of life, I was called lazy.
When I tried to rule my people, I was stripped of my authority.”
Chief Dan George in his ‘Lament for Confederation‘.

..according to some
But the /. discussion on this produced an excellent response:
“If ‘Games Should Be Like Female Orgasms,’ why are the most popular games first person shooters?“

While reading the article linked in the previous posting, I saw a nice quote:

“My religion is better than yours.. Because I don’t have one.”

Must remember that, it could be useful.

“And what unbiased source are you going to use to tell you whether or not your sources are unbiased?

eh?

What you are asking for is bias that is too hard for you too see.

If thats all you need, just close your eyes and everything will be ok, eh?”

Sam

is currently getting a lot of attention.
I like this piece in the Guardian about it, here’s a choice quote..

“If you look back over the history of technology, one thing stands out above all others, namely that the inventors of radical technologies rarely foresee the applications that people will find for their inventions.

Marconi conceived of radio as a point-to-point communications technology rather than broadcast (one to many) technology. Henry Ford thought he had invented a way of making motor cars, whereas in fact he invented a way of manufacturing products in huge volumes at low marginal cost.

And the geniuses who conceived the internet thought they were inventing a way of enabling folks to log in remotely to mainframe computers, whereas in fact they designed a technology for enabling us to send email, spin the World Wide Web, girdle the earth with a zillion lines of personal communication – and, yes, share music and video files.”

“Consider the usenet as a kind of asynchronous network. Consider the participants as nodes that connect and disconnect at random. Now consider the result. The value has *NOT* increased along with the number of nodes. Instead, the SNR became very small, and my belief is that the current SNR is negative, at least on average. There is still some good information to be found in pockets, but there is plenty of misinformation, too, and *LOTS* of noise.
I think the decisive factor is that the fanatical propagators of misinformation must be aware (at some level) that they are fighting against reality–but their response is to shout louder and more frequently, simply repeating their misinformation. Are they hoping that lies repeated enough times will somehow become true? Or they just hope to bury the truth they hate?”
Very interesting.. From Slashdot, a post by ‘Shanen’

An informative article on MSNBC:
“There is this weird sense that the Internet is broken because it lets people make easy copies. . . . The Internet is a machine for making copies, and artists need to come to grips with that,” Cory Doctorow

America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization. — John O’Hara

Farewell then, Hunter S Thompson
“I wouldn’t recommend sex, drugs, or insanity for everyone, but they’ve always worked for me.”
Says it all really

on the subject of Afghan and Iraqi elections:
“Create a new elite, give it funds and weaponry to build a new army and let them make the country safe for the corporations.”