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the mobile society

Sean Gabb’s “Free Life Commentary” has moved.

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second-hand bleat

Lileks: Down the street was Cheapo Records, located now in the old Best Buy store. Cheapo sells used CDs as well as new, and dumps every day’s purchases in big bins marked with the date they came in. Most of … Continue reading

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naming is hard

My new title [“before i forget”] was suggested by Dori Smith’s Backup Brain (mentioned at Worldcon). I thought of “The Harp of —–” after Dunsany’s “The Cave of Kai”; but sadly that harper is unnamed.

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do as I suggest, not as I am constrained

Steven den Beste, in “An act of faith”, puts words in the mouth of an anonymous blogger: . . . I, myself, do not admit to holding those opinions to those around me because I’m afraid of the consequences. But I believe … Continue reading

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they just fade away

Raphael Carter’s Honeyguide is one of the granddaddies of weblogs. Why hasn’t it been updated since April?

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consumer sovereignty

If Susanna Cornett hadn’t changed hosts, I might never have read Meryl Yourish’s rant on web design: The first standard of web publishing I learned was: The reader is in control, not you. You shouldn’t care if your readers want … Continue reading

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drinking from a fire hose

Changed my mind: I won’t ask to have my blog rated at HotOrNot, since I’m unwilling to give a numeric rating to those I see there. How do you quantify a subjective impression? But I’ll keep it bookmarked, for days … Continue reading

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