disparate mischief: scrapbook
“ The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
Bertrand Russell
“ There’s nothing serious about a plan that claims to reduce the deficit by spending a trillion dollars on tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires. And I don’t think there’s anything courageous about asking for sacrifice from those who can least afford it and don’t have any clout on Capitol Hill.
Barack Obama
“ The light is the open web. The smoke monster is MS/IE, Jacob is the W3C, the Dharma initiative is Netscape, the Others are the Mozilla foundation, the survivors are the Webkit team.
@alittletooquiet’s description of how LOST is an allegory for the browser wars. Too good not to share.
“ We keep on making all these machines to do our work for us. We should be like “sweet, that means we can take a nap,” but instead it just means that some people are “unemployed”, and therefore people have to FEAR machines.
http://www.metafilter.com/96573/You-have-nothing-to-gain-but-free-time
- Mosey: I have to sign a condolences card for someone's dog
- Mosey: Talk about not in my wheelhouse
- joshjs: just write "I'm sorry for your loss"
- Mosey: someone took that one!
- joshjs: damn
“ If we took the loopiest, most moonbeam-addled Californian utopian internet bullshit, and held it up against the most cynical, realpolitik-inflected scepticism, the Californian bullshit would still be a better predictor of the future. Which is to say that, if in 1994 you’d wanted to understand what our lives would be like right now, you’d still be better off reading a single copy of Wired magazine published in that year than all of the sceptical literature published ever since.
Clay Shirky
Blind Designer
- Josh: communication is hard.
- Matt: sometimes I wish I was mute
- Matt: so I could have an excuse not to talk to people
- Josh: Maybe at my next job, I'll tell them I'm deaf.
- Josh: and mute
- Josh: and paraplegic. gotta work from home.
- Matt: I'm also blind
- Matt: blind designer
- Matt: "JOSH, WHAT COLOR IS THIS?"
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