January 2011
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Weeknotes 42
The weeks seem to be crawling by incredibly slowly. It’s just three weeks since my last *notes, and yet it feels as if it was months ago. Can I thank a moment of clarity for this? Am I in The Zone? Is it possible that I am trapped in some sort of quantum bubble that Vonnegut would be proud of?
Unlikely.
However, this treacly experience of time is not actually a bad thing. It means...
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An idea for digital books
When I bought my first MP3 player many years ago, it was a blank slate. Digital download services didn’t really exist then (at least legal ones) and even if they did, my internet connection was pretty slow. That didn’t stop me from using the player itself, however, since I could build a collection of music on it that largely consisted of the music I already owned.
Ripping my CDs gave...
Yearnotes
What can I say about the last 12 months?
2010 ended up being the really shitty hat that 2009 wore to the party.
To be honest, it’s hard to separate the two, as far as things go. Between them, both 2010 and its predecessor were depressing and dispiriting and about as melancholic and subdued as can be.
The job I had became precarious a long time ago, but it wasn’t until 2010...
8 Smears and Misconceptions About WikiLeaks Spread... →
The corporate media’s tendency to blare misinformation and outright fabrications has been particularly egregious in coverage of WikiLeaks. As Glenn Greenwald has argued, mainstream news outlets are parroting smears and falsehoods about the whistleblower site and its founder Julian Assange, helping to perpetuate a number of “zombie lies” — misconceptions that refuse to die no matter how...