Nodes. No point.

• What does place mean to the connected? [via Chris]
• Jeff Lash: Soft Skills for the information architect [via Christina]
• Morlock’s lament:
  

  “Somewhere, somehow, we told people that everything about computers should be easy and intuitive. That you shouldn’t have to learn anything, or read manuals. That you should be able to grasp everything in ten or fifteen minutes. What nonsense. Some things just aren’t easy. Quantum mechanics. Tensor calculus. Navajo verbs forms. Old Norse. Getting rich.” – Mark Bernstein

  I dig those cartoony introduction to quantum mechanics and old norse books however. Via Victor.

• Punyhumans on Nokia’s 7600 and mankind inventing the tricorder 3 centuries early, except better than those Starfleet commies:
  

  Punyhuman#1: “what i’ve never been able to figure out is, how come the federation never figured out how to combine their ‘tricorder’ technology with their communicators? and, apparently, they develop something called a PADD around the TNG era. that’s three separate interfaces that we’ve been able to combine into one! what gives with that? star trek is my template for tech development, and it’s starting to piss me off — we’re surpassing them in usability! my illusions are like so totally shattered.”

  Punyhuman#2: “The Federation is run by Communists. Having a tricorder factory, a PADD factory, and a communicator factory lets them keep more proles on the dole. Of course, anyone who asks too many questions gets assigned to the Enterprise and issued a red shirt.”

• Tom on
  • enhanced extraterristrial reality
  • StrangerSpace
• Alex Wright on Macromedia Central, from March this year

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