“I’m a big believer in open source, which is an ancient African phrase meaning “no, I will not fix your Windows computer for you.” “
I think i’m going to start using it as my personal signature on the emails i send to friends and family…
Huntsman could bring us back together
“We need a president who can work within our poisonous political environment to solve our nation’s problems, not simply score partisan points. Someone who understands that negotiation is essential in a representative democracy, and that there are good ideas across the political spectrum. Someone who has a well-defined set of core values but is not so rigid that he ignores new information and new conditions. Someone who has shown himself to be honest and trustworthy. And competent. Someone whose positions are well-reasoned and based on the world as it is rather than as he pretends it to be. Someone with the temperament and judgment and experience to be taken seriously as the commander in chief and leader of the free world.
We think Mr. Romney could demonstrate those characteristics. Mr. Huntsman already does. And we are proud to endorse him for the Republican nomination for president of the United States.”
If i were an american citizen, i would definitely vote for Mr.Huntsman. Seems the only rational, convincing and principled candidate of the GOP primaries.
Should The Times Be a Truth Vigilante?
“I’m looking for reader input on whether and when New York Times news reporters should challenge “facts” that are asserted by newsmakers they write about.”
I don’t know what’s more troubling: That they are actually asking if they should be making real journalism or the fact that they haven’t done any for the last two decades.
Ilya Zhitomirskiy, 1989 – 2011
“This weekend we lost one of the brightest minds of the technology world, and one of our best friends. Ilya Zhitomirskiy was a crusader—or, as he called himself, a Dragonslayer—for freedom, privacy, and openness on the Internet. He believed in the power of technology to make the world a better place. And through the creation of Diaspora, he did.
His passions were infectious. His parties epic. He “dreamed a better, freer future, and threw himself completely into building what he dreamed.”[1] The thousands of tweets and hundreds of news articles reporting his passing are a testament to the influence of his words and the strength of Diaspora’s vision. “Every time I saw Ilya, he had a new plan to save the world. He was optimistic without irony.”[2] It pains us greatly that we will no longer be graced by the bright-eyed idealist in the American flag shirt making us all believe in the open web.
As Ilya himself said, “There’s something deeper than making money off stuff, being a part of creating stuff for the universe is awesome.”
While his life ended, his vision and passion live on. The world needed his voice. We’ll miss you Ilya.
There are memorials planned for Friday, Nov. 18 in San Francisco, and Sunday, Nov. 20 in Philadelphia. In life, Ilya brought people together. In death, he would have wanted the same thing. Everyone is welcome.
If you would like to speak, share a memory, or anything else, please email us at remembering_ilya@joindiaspora.com “
That Diaspora has lost one of its early founders when it needs so much more work while it shows so much promise, is saddening. But i must admit that what shocked me most was seeing that such potential, such promise faded away in a body that was born 9 years later than me. The guy was 22 years old. Tragic.
My condolences to his family and friends.
You can get more info on how to honor his memory on the Diaspora page created for the purpose.
The secret Library super-hero
We need a hero
In times of crisis, we need men like these.
RSS change
I’m trying out Feedburner to monitor the amount or RSS subscribers to this blog.
You should have no problem with the RSS feed from this site but in case you do, send me an email or comment to let me know.
Evolution and Intelligent Design (No, Not That Kind …)
“Everybody has a duty to participate in the quest to deeply understand more and to be better. It is our duty. When we are born, we sign a contract with our family, with our tribe, with our environment. We have to honour that contract.
Nobody is obliged to be a genius — Ptolemy, Hawkins, Einstein or even Steve Jobs[2]. But you must do the best you can with your own tools. A plumber who performs his best possible work is part of our grand race to be better.”
Yep. This.
The ethics of work. Not everybody gots to be a rocket scientist nor everyone has the physical body to do heavy physical work and build stuff. We need to play the hand we were dealt. But what we must do and we must try to be is one of the best at our work. No matter what it is. That no one can truthfully claim that we weren’t honest or truthful or one of the best. Now, that’s a goal.
Steve Jobs on Why He Wore Turtlenecks
“On a trip to Japan in the early 1980s, Jobs asked Sony’s chairman Akio Morita why everyone in the company’s factories wore uniforms. He told Jobs that after the war, no one had any clothes, and companies like Sony had to give their workers something to wear each day. Over the years, the uniforms developed their own signatures styles, especially at companies such as Sony, and it became a way of bonding workers to the company. “I decided that I wanted that type of bonding for Apple,” Jobs recalled.
Sony, with its appreciation for style, had gotten the famous designer Issey Miyake to create its uniform. It was a jacket made of rip-stop nylon with sleeves that could unzip to make it a vest. So Jobs called Issey Miyake and asked him to design a vest for Apple, Jobs recalled, “I came back with some samples and told everyone it would great if we would all wear these vests. Oh man, did I get booed off the stage. Everybody hated the idea.””
Excerpt from Jobs biography on Gawker.com
I would never had guessed this.
jerks
Appleinsider (and some other sites that tune to the same song) are trying really hard to get on my “i will never open this site again” list. (( also known as “add its web address to hosts file as localhost” ))
There’s an indescribable article about S.Jobs death certificate and cause of death there, first page and center.. Really. I won’t even provide you with the link as i find it a most definite proof of contempt, plain rudeness and simple lack of politeness. And please don’t go there looking for it.
The man’s dead. Leave him and his family alone. Fucking jerks.