If anyone’s interested, here are my notes from TWTRCON DC 09. I make no guarantees on their quality or thoroughness – I’m not particularly good at keeping meeting minutes, so I apologize in advance for their incoherence. But they’re there if you weren’t able to attend and want to check them out.
Categories: technology
Tagged: notes, socialmedia, twitter, twtrcon
This photo helps anchor Tristes Tropiques in reality for me. Hard to believe he’s nearing his 101st birthday. Thanks @kerim for this.
This beast of an intellectual is one of the few scholars who are responsible for blowing my mind all over the place with their theories of humanity. I still use his ideas on structural [...]
Categories: anthropology
Tagged: anthropology, levi-strauss
Some fantastic strangeness that made my day more interesting… Toynbee Tiles.
In 1992, a chap in Philadelphia by the name of Bill O’Neill starting noticing strange tiles randomly embedded in local roads. They were generally about the size of a license plate, and each had some variation of the same strange message: “TOYNBEE IDEA IN KUbricK’s [...]
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