…that this is starting to look like systematic discrimination. …[the St. Anthony city council] originally approved the opening of his store but now are seeking to close it. St. Anthony City Council rejects Islamic center plan.
Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
Open Loop #2 – What am I Editing Anyway?
Beer: Arrogant Bastard & Oaked Arrogant Bastard Garrick’s Top 9 Nouns for a Group of Animals, Wikipedia’s List of Animal names SemanticMediaWiki, WikiData Making durable web content, spreading copies into the wind. Jamie’s MediaWiki Backup Slow Web Reflections on working at CoCo
Throwing Away Just Enough to Catch
Open Loop #1 – Big Fuzzy Dead Cat
Notes & Links: The space between 0 and 1 beer for this episode: Garrick’s Sour Rye, Olvalde’s Brynhildr’s Gift Road Sign Math John Cleese on Creativity Doxie Go & Eye-fi Co-ops for news? Planet Kubb Pitch
US Leading World in CO2 Cuts
“Here is the biggest shocker of all: the average American’s CO2 emissions are down to levels not seen since 1964 — over half a century ago.” – Barry Saxifrage
“How long before Twitter carries exclusive content.”
Dave Winer asks “…how long before the money jumps the gap and Twitter buys a struggling news organization.” If we say Facebook needs to buy Sony for the entertainment capture, promotion, and distribution synergies. Then who’s a likely acquisition target for Twitter? How about a small and medium market newspaper company like Media General? Makes …
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Rejected on Grounds of Perceived Uselesness
“Yes, that’s right, we were rejected on the grounds that unVerse is “not very useful”. Hmm. Strangely, an app that plays a sound of an airplane appears to have more use than our generative music system. Anyway.” – Yann Seznec From an essay I wrote in 1999: “Generative music allows the musician to compose like …
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Blockhead
“Why isn’t a block out after it’s knocked down? Because kubb is a silly, silly game, that’s why.”
Taken
“The best solution is not to need money. The less you need investor money, (a) the more investors like you, in all markets, and (b) the less you’re harmed by bad markets” – Paul Graham
So, Keep the Hard, Expensive Part?
“The newspaper’s value is in explaining a story in detail, rather than the bare headline, and putting it in a context. It’s also in choosing what to report and write about. By only including what they believe is important and worth knowing about, they make it manageable for readers to comprehend the totality of a …