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Today I crossed 3,000 followers! Pretty crazy, but I'm glad all of you are hanging out with me, SURFIN' DAT WEB.

“The Web is now old enough for us to know just how badly links rot over time. Much of the material from the early days of the Web is already gone. Facebook and Twitter actually make it nearly impossible for you to find older material, even stuff that you’ve contributed yourself. The more dynamic the Web gets and the more stuff we move into “the cloud,” the less confident we can be that information that once was public will remain available to the public. There are conferences on “digital preservation” these days because this is actually a serious and important problem. We need to solve it for the sake of future historians and for the sake of our descendants. We need, as Dave Winer puts it, to “future-safe” the culture we are creating together today. In other words: I’m a lot less worried about the Web that never forgets than I am about the Web that can’t remember.”

“This is followed by a sequence in which Mr. Burton suggests ways of having fun without spending much money. This includes such games as rag basketball, double-dutch rope jumping and the tossing of yogurtcup lids. This is obviously not a show for those kids who demand and get expensive bicycles or portable stereos.”

Does Language Influence Culture?

“Despite its kitchen table status today, the Monopoly board game can trace its roots to Lizzie Magie, who created the game in 1903 as an educational tool to help people understand that free market economies, absent rules to ensure otherwise, naturally move toward monopoly control as wealth is increasingly concentrated into the hands of the few. It takes public policies, from anti-monopoly rules to progressive tax systems, to protect free markets from this self-destructive tendency. The fact is: any economic system is effective only to the extent that its more extreme aspects are reined in. Our progressive tax system, including the estate tax, helped guide our economy and fuel the broadly shared prosperity our nation experienced during the post-war period. However, that progressive tax system came under a 30-year assault which began in the early 1980s. We’ve seen the consequences of this backsliding and the misguided tax cuts for the wealthy. Instead of the promised trickle-down, we got stagnant wages for most Americans and the widest disparity of income our nation has seen since 1928, just before the Great Depression. It’s time to recapture the core values that made our economy work, beginning with the preservation of a strong estate tax.”

“I do: Helles (lager) RT @jtimberman: #pdx is the beer capital of the USA says mayor Adams per CBS. Are you homebrewing your own yet? #oscon”

Facebook | David Rees Should Sharpen a Pencil on David Letterman

“Please no pornography or gore. We try to keep 4Chan a family-friendly website, so keep all the images to funny cat pictures!”

How to tell you are at an awesome restaurant:

Portland "4T" (Trail, Tram, Trolley and Train) hike (pdf)

“It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.”

“Capitalism is about one thing: aggregating the surplus productive value of the public for private interests. As we have said, it is about creating state sanctioned “investments” for the workers who produce the real wealth. Things like home “ownership” and mortgages, or stock investments and funds to absorb their retirement savings. That crushing 30-year mortgage with two refis is an investment. So is that 401K melting like a snow cone the beach. As the people’s wealth accumulates, it is steadily siphoned off by government and elite private forces. From time to time, it is openly plundered for their benefit by way of various bubbles, depressions or recessions and other forms of theft passed off as unavoidable acts of nature/god. These periodic raids and draw downs of the people’s wealth are attributed to “business cycles.” Past periodic raids and thefts are heralded as being proof of the rationale. “See folks, it comes and goes, so it’s a cycle!” Economic raids and busts become “market adjustments.” Public blackmail and plundering through bailouts become a “necessary rescue packages.” Giveaways to corporations under the guise of public works and creating employment become “stimulus.” The chief responsibility of economists is to name things in accordance with government and corporate interests. The function of the public is to acquire debt and maintain “consumer confidence.” When the public staggers to its feet again and manages to carry more debt, buy more poker chips on credit to play again, it’s called a recovery. They are back in the game. Dealer, hit me with two more cards,. I feel lucky.”

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“ARTISTIC RE-INVENTION! No revolution needed. Just grow your hair.”

“you should un-follow now if your not down with living every second of life like it’s your last! Because that is what this movement is about!”

4chan is currently trying to hack Adrian Chen's accounts. HAHA.

One of those nights...

Got my Belle & Sebastian tickets!! And they're pretty good seats! One of the only bands I actually care about seeing live (see also: Ween).

“Start by treating every girl like your future wife and see where that gets you.”

“Well, holy sh*t. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan ruled today that the FCC can no longer fine broadcasters for airing profanity that relates to “sex, sexual organs, or excretion” (presumably meaning the F and S words) as the policy was unconstitutional.”

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-God doesn’t exist.

-There’s no evidence that our pitiful technology is going to somehow invent God in the next ten or a hundred years.

-You will die like all other humans before you.

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“All Tarkovsky’s films now available free online http://www.openculture.com/2010/07/tarkovksy.html”

Ricky Van Veen's GET EXCITED: Rupert Murdoch, Neel Shah, and the Short Pants

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