yeeeeehaaaaaw! i
ran 8 miles today
.
is there a marathon in my future? perhaps.
please tell me that this is a case of lies, damn lies and statistics. please tell me that a recent poll which determined that
forty-four percent of Americans believe that most or some of the hijackers were iraqi
is just a result of questionnaire bias.
i know it's fashionable to remark on the general dumbness of the american public, but we can't really be that collectively dumb, can we? [ via
steven berlin johnson
]
sometimes life is unspeakably cruel.
after attempting to have children for some time, including a miscarriage, a couple that kris and i know gave birth to a severely disabled baby girl last night.
today they learned that she will likely not live to see her first birthday.
i really don't have the capacity to come close to understanding what they must be going through. in one of life's horrendous ironies, the couple has dedicated their lives to serving the disabled and their families.
my heart goes out to them in what will undoubtably be the most difficult and trying year that any parent should endure.
adina levin expands on the etiquette of friendship declaration and makes a simple, but powerful observation regarding digital insecurity and group-forming :
"Kellan, Snowdeal, deus_x, and raster write about digital insecurity -- the anxiety you feel about asking a colleague to be your "friend" or "contact" on Ryze and similar systems.
The reason is that there is no context for asking. The question doesn't correspond to a social form in real life."
i also agree with her that rules for formalizing types of relationships aren't going to help the problem:
"I don't think we need better FOAF metadata descriptions of the nuances of relationship. "I have now moved Bob from the category of FriendlyAquaintance to ModeratelyGoodFriend". Instead, we need better groupforming mechanisms, so people can become friends naturally."
i think that in a small way, this is precisely what mark pilgrim has done by simple offering an open invitation to be his foaf friend:
"If you have a FOAF file (or this post inspires you to make a FOAF file, using the FOAF-a-matic), please email me at f8dy@diveintomark.org so I can add you to my FOAF profile. Any friend of FOAF is a friend of mine."
"when ibooks attack!" sounds depressingly familiar:
"As some of you may know I've had somed issues with my previous ibook. Well during the huge icestorm that left us without power, cable (internet), and telephone I and one of the folks staying with us to keep warm decided to take a peek inside the old ibook.
*Before going into a rage please note that this thing has had the motherboard/logicboard replaced twice and blew a third time prior to being replaced outright. It does not work reliably at all! "
great. at least there's hope that i can get a replacement rather than just sending it in every month.
the ibook is back in the shop. again.
congratulations, apple. you now have the dubious distinction of producing the most unreliable piece of hardware i've ever owned. ever. you should be proud. this is not meant to be an unfounded flame. it's an objective fact.
i've owned loads and loads of hardware and yours is the worst. and i will note for the record that two friends have also returned and replaced their ibooks due to a variety of problems, so it's not like i'm a freakish anomaly.
xml::rss v1.01 is out. changes:
"this is the last major release in this track. we are going to completely rewrite XML::RSS as something more extendable."
onepotmeal on how the more things change the more they stay the same :
"I, too, think that web relationships replicate meatworld relationships far more than they dismantle them. Like bloggers link like bloggers, and largely ignore unlike bloggers; it follows then that if you blog like prominent bloggers, or blog from a similar position/situation/set of interests/etc., you're more likely to be of interest to and linked by those prominent bloggers."
while some would say the "a-list-as-a-blogging-topic" is only interesting in how predictibly periodicly it appears to rear it's head, i do think it's a good time to reflect on clay shirky's communities, audiences, and scale.
neat. ben trott's, xml::foaf makes it super easy to parse foaf files. if i can remember where i put pixie i bet i could whip up a jabber bot that can return info based on your foaf file. me wonders where pixie is
update:i found her, but she's on a new server. if you have a jabber client subscribe to pixie@im.snowdeal.org and type "hello". i'll get the foaf query running shortly. hopefully.
so, i guess the scenario should be something along the lines of querying for friends based on nicknames and, after you select a friend, you should be able to select other info, like who their friends are etc.
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“The stranger has been a fundamental touchstone of cultures at least since Abraham and Sarah invited weary road travelers into their tent only to find out that they were angels in disguise. The Odyssey, too, is a meditation on strangers and hospitality: Odysseus experiences different ways of being a stranger on his way home while the suitors abuse every rule of hospitality in his own house. It's easy to see why strangers are so important: a culture's attitude towards them expresses its understanding of its position in the world of social groups. In our culture, we're suspicious of strangers. They're a threat. They lurk in shadows. On the Web, however, strangers are the source of everything worthwhile. Strangers and their utterances are the stuff of the Web.”
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