this week's bookmarks
June 4, 2006
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thedaniel
- DIGITAL MAOISM - jaron lanier --
The beauty of the Internet is that it connects people. The value is in the other people. If we start to believe the Internet itself is an entity that has something to say, we're devaluing those people and making ourselves into idiots. Tagged as: [culture future internet]
- Amar Sagoo - Tofu --
Tofu is a novel application to address the common problem that people don't like reading text on the screen. Tagged as: [ebook for:bkerr mac software]
- Beyond the Beyond --
"I, Gilberto Gil, as minister of culture of Brazil and as a musician, work every day with the impulse of the ethics of hackers," he said. Tagged as: [culture politics southamerica]
- SSRN-Fuck by Christopher Fairman --
This Article is as simple and provocative as its title suggests: it explores the legal implications of the word fuck. The intersection of the word fuck and the law is examined in four major areas: First Amendment, broadcast regulation, sexual harassment, Tagged as: [language law]
- SSRN-Why Tolerate Religion? by Brian Leiter --
There are, to be sure, principled arguments for why the state ought to tolerate a plethora of private choices, commitments, and practices of its citizenry, but none of these single out religion for anything like the special treatment it is accorded in, fo Tagged as: [christians religion]
- Slashdot | On Point On Slacking --
"This week the NPR show On Point has an excellent episode exploring slacking and the American work ethic. (note that it's audio) It touches on some issues that may be of interest to geeks such as outsourcing, the church of the subgenius and the eternal co Tagged as: [audio life npr slacking]
- MintyBoost! - Small battery-powered USB charger --
This project details a small & simple, but very powerful USB charger for your mp3 player, camera, cell phone, and any other gadget you can plug into a USB port to charge! The charger circuitry and 2 AA batteries fit into an Altoids gum tin, and will run Tagged as: [diy do.this electronics ipod]
- Web 2.0 Design Kit | Photoshop Lab --
Web 2.0 is a term coined by O'Reilly describing the new trends in design and development appearing across a flood of innovative websites. This tutorial will show you how to create some of the more popular "Web 2.0" design effects using Photoshop. Tagged as: [funny photoshop web20]