Listened Brat and It’s Completely Different but Also Still Brat by Contributors to Wikimedia projects from Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
I was really intrigued by Charli XCX’s remix album, especially with all the names included. Although these tracks clearly reference the original tracks, as Kieran Press-Reynolds touches on, it is almost a whole new project.

Unlike those remix albums that tack on five DJ flips of the same tune or specific genre edits of a handful of hits, Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat is pretty much a whole new project. The guts of most songs—lyrics, structures, beats, even the feelings—have been rewired, but without completely erasing the essence of the originals.

Source: 5 Takeaways From Charli XCX’s New BRAT Remix Album by Kieran Press-Reynolds

Along with listening to The Bleachers reworking of Strange Desires with A Stranger Desired, I wonder what place the original serves? If Brat and It’s Completely Different but Also Still Brat came out first, would it still have the same impact?

Bookmarked https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/03/climate/iowa-prairie-farming-environment.html (nytimes.com)

Soil erosion and surface runoff plummeted, as the prairie plants held soil in place and transpired water. Levels of nitrogen and phosphorus carried in surface runoff from adjacent cropland decreased by as much as 70 percent, absorbed instead by the prairie strips, resulting in less water contamination. The prairie strips created better conditions for helpful bacteria, resulting in dramatically lower levels of nitrous oxide, a powerful greenhouse gas generated by chemical fertilizer, compared to cropland without prairie strips. The strips also drew twice as many native grassland birds and three times as many beneficial insects, compared to fields that had not been rewilded.

Source: Hidden in Midwestern Cornfields, Tiny Edens Bloom by Cara Buckley

Cara Buckley explores the use of partial rewilding in midwestern confields. These spaces are call ‘prairie strips’. Buckley shares how even a partial rewilding can produce wider benefits.

This had me thinking again on my piece on ‘rewilding education‘ and the possible benefits gained from partial rewilding?

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Read Did I Ever Tell You This?: A Memoir, book by Sam Neill

In this unexpected memoir, written in a creative burst of just a few months in 2022, Sam Neill tells the story of how he became one of the world’s most celebrated actors, who has worked with everyone from Meryl Streep to Isabel Adjani, from Jeff Goldblum to Sean Connery, from Steven Spielberg to Jane Campion.By his own account, his career has been a series of unpredictable turns of fortune. Born in 1947 in Northern Ireland, he emigrated to New Zealand at the age of seven. His family settled in Dunedin on the South Island, but young Sam was sent away to boarding school in Christchurch, where he was hopeless at sports and discovered he enjoyed acting.But how did you become an actor in New Zealand in the 1960 and 1970s where there was no film industry? After university he made documentary films while also appearing in occasional amateur productions of Shakespeare. In 1977 he took the lead in Sleeping Dogs, the first feature made in New Zealand in more than a decade, a project that led to a major role in Gillian Armstrong’s celebrated My Brilliant Career. And after that Sam Neill found his way, sometimes by accident, into his own brilliant career. He has worked around the world, an actor who has moved effortlessly from blockbuster to art house to TV, from Dr Alan Grant in the Jurassic Park movies to The Piano and Peaky Blinders. Did I Ever Tell You This? is a joy to read, a marvellous and often very funny book, the work of a natural storyteller who is a superb observer of other people, and who writes with love and warmth about his family. It is also his account of his life outside film, especially in Central Otago where he established Two Paddocks, his vineyard famous for its pinot noir.

In this unexpected memoir, written in a creative burst of just a few months in 2022, Sam Neill tells the story of how he became one of the world’s most celebrated actors, who has worked with everyone from Meryl Streep to Isabel Adjani, from Jeff Goldblum to Sean Connery, from Steven Spielberg to Jane Campion.

By his own account, his career has been a series of unpredictable turns of fortune. Born in 1947 in Northern Ireland, he emigrated to New Zealand at the age of seven. His family settled in Dunedin on the South Island, but young Sam was sent away to boarding school in Christchurch, where he was hopeless at sports and discovered he enjoyed acting.

But how did you become an actor in New Zealand in the 1960 and 1970s where there was no film industry? After university he made documentary films while also appearing in occasional amateur productions of Shakespeare. In 1977 he took the lead in Sleeping Dogs, the first feature made in New Zealand in more than a decade, a project that led to a major role in Gillian Armstrong’s celebrated My Brilliant Career.

And after that Sam Neill found his way, sometimes by accident, into his own brilliant career. He has worked around the world, an actor who has moved effortlessly from blockbuster to art house to TV, from Dr Alan Grant in the Jurassic Park movies to The Piano and Peaky Blinders.

Did I Ever Tell You This? is a joy to read, a marvellous and often very funny book, the work of a natural storyteller who is a superb observer of other people, and who writes with love and warmth about his family. It is also his account of his life outside film, especially in Central Otago where he established Two Paddocks, his vineyard famous for its pinot noir.

Source: Did I Ever Tell You This?: A Memoir by Sam Neill

Did I Ever Tell You? is Sam Neill’s accidental memoir, written as a distraction, while receiving treatment for cancer. I wrote a longer response here.

Marginalia

GIELGUD

‘Oh. Oh, Sam Neill,’ said Gielgud, turning to the unfortunate blushing assistant. ‘Sam Neill. I hear he’s fucked absolutely everyone in London.’ He paused. ‘Has he fucked you, Sebastian?’

HOW TO BE A GOOD ACTOR

Acting might look easy, but it’s actually very hard. In fact, if it looks like it’s easy, it means that the actor is doing something very hard very well. If it looks like ‘acting’, forget it.

 

I sometimes ask people if there’s something particular that they bring to every role that would be universal to their career. Meryl Streep had an interesting answer. She claimed that she makes a point of tripping at some stage in a film. I told her that I like to make sure that I do a 360-degree turn somewhere in the flick. I think I’ve forgotten to do that for a while. I should start again.

I once read something practical and useful that has stood me in good stead. When you go to leave, look at the door before you get up and depart. If you don’t do that (and people don’t necessarily do that in life), it strangely looks as if you’ve been more spontaneous than was called for. You might be leaving in a huff, for instance. No, looking at the door first indicates a whole bunch of things—you have another life, you have somewhere to go, you are thinking within the scene. The rule, of course, extrapolates to so many other things; the door is just one example.

We were talking about these little things on the Jurassic World Dominion set one day. Chris Pratt sat up and said that every time he leaves by a door he looks back into the room. I must always remember that whenever confronted by a door in the future. Again, it’s a simple thing that conveys a tremendous amount. I was very interested to see Chris at work. And here is the big difference between someone like him and me. He’s really thought about what it means to be an action hero. It’s a real job. I never did that on the Jurassic films. On the contrary, I thought I was playing an ordinary guy who finds himself in a heap of trouble and muddles his way to survival. Everyman, not hero. Pratt is absolutely fantastic as a hero.

 

There are actors I know who can articulate well what it is that we do. Bryan Brown is particularly succinct: ‘It’s simple. Just open your mouth and be real.’ If that’s helpful, you can use it. I rather like Alan Cumming’s definition: ‘Pretend to be someone else, but really, really, mean it.’ Yes, I agree, conviction is everything. I think that’s a pretty good mantra, and worth committing to memory. The mantra always used to be: learn your lines and hit your marks. But marks are now things of the past. Focus pullers and new technology have made them redundant. It remains a good idea to learn your lines.

Reviews

In Did I Ever Tell You This? Neill shares quite a bit more of himself. Indeed he has laid himself quite bare and, like most actors awaiting the reviews, he wants to know how he did. As memoirs go, it is very funny and extremely entertaining, but with a judicious touch of poignancy. No self-pity here. He is an enormously good raconteur and also deliciously indiscreet in some of his tale-telling (co-stars behaving badly, take note). But still, he is careful with his private life. Details of past relationships are either omitted, as in the case of his most recent relationship with the Canberra press gallery journalist Laura Tingle, or referred to fleetingly as with his marriages to actor Lisa Harrow and to film makeup artist Noriko Watanabe. His four children and eight grandchildren appear as careful references to his life’s joy and great love.

Source: Sam Neill on his new memoir and living with blood cancer: ‘I’m not afraid to die, but it would annoy me’ by Lucy Clark

If you’re looking for gossip, you’ll find plenty to enjoy. But this is hardly the scurrilous slander mongering and barbed brickbats of a Hedda Hopper skewering or an ‘article’ in the National Enquirer. In fact, most of the people Neill mentions he seems to rate pretty highly. But when he does come across a curmudgeon or someone who behaved less than favourably on set, he tells it as he sees it. Though, to be frank, there are few shocking revelations.

Source: Book review: Did I Ever Tell You This?, Sam Neill by Madeleine Swain

I finished this memoir feeling like I had been at a raucous dinner party, seated next to him of course, where tales are flung from one end of the earth to the other and the evening finishes with a lovely Two Paddocks pinot noir. And a relief that he is in remission.

Source: Did I Ever Tell You This? by Sam Neill by Chris Gordon

Read Men without Women

Men Without Women (Japanese: 女のいない男たち, Hepburn: Onna no inai otokotachi) is a 2014 collection of short stories by Japanese author Haruki Murakami, translated and published in English in 2017. The stories are about men who have lost women in their lives, usually to other men or death.[5]#citenote-NYT-5)[6]#citenote-PM-6) The collection shares its title with Ernest Hemingway’s second short story collection “Men Without Women (short story collection)”).

Source: Men Without Women (Murakami short story collection) – Wikipedia)

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Men Without Women is a collection of seven short stories from Haruki Murakami:

  • Drive My Car
  • Yesterday
  • An Independent Organ
  • Scheherazade
  • Kino
  • Samsa in Love
  • Men without Women

    There is something both familiar, yet strange about these stories. Each captures something human and ordinary, led by characters who are often unknowing. In the process of each of these reflective stories, we are taken somewhere further about what it means to be. Although it never feels like we get to a point where all the strings are tied off, the world seems different afterwards.

Continue reading “📚 Men Without Women (Haruki Murakami)”

Replied to Wow Us with your AI Generated Podcast… (cogdogblog.com)

In one sample listen, you might be wowed. But over a series, Biff and Buffy sound like a bunch of gushing sycophants, those office but kissers you want to kick in the pants.
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Beyond the point of showing that this can be done (reference the old saying about why a dog does something) – what is the use? Will people really use this as a mode to consume content?

Source: Wow Us with your AI Generated Podcast… by Alan Levine

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I agree with you Alan about the initial amazement about what is possible, I am not sure how purposeful it is. I listened to David Truss’ podcast he posted and was left thinking about my experience with David Truss’ writing. I imagine that such tools may provide a possible entry way into new content, but I am not sure what is really gained by putting this into an audio format? If as David has suggested (quoting Adam Grant), “The future belongs to those who connect dots.” Does an autogenerated podcast help with that? (On a side note, anytime someone talks about connecting dots, I am reminded of the wonderful work of Amy Burvall.) I wonder in this case if the focus on the product overlooks the learning gained through the process of highlighting the patterns and finding a trace through all the dots?

I personally listen to a lot of text using the phone’s accessibility features. I think that a text summary read in this manner is both sufficient and maintains the divide, whereas I feel that the artificial voices sit somewhere in the uncanny valley. However, the more I think about this, I wonder what is the uncanny valley anymore and whether we are “all already interpolated” within the system, especially after reading Jill Lepore’s dive into the world of the talking chatbot.

Liked Annotation by chrisaldrich@hypothes.is on Zettelkasten is the Solution (Hypothes.is)

Asking my own zettelkasten this question: (responses in no particular order as individual affordances are sure to vary in usefulness by user; some framed as problems while others are framed as affordances, the difference should hopefully be clear to most)

Source: Annotation by chrisaldrich@hypothes.is on Zettelkasten is the Solution by Chris Aldrich

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Liked Susan Wilson (openculture.com)

Take a suf­fi­cient­ly long road trip across Amer­i­ca, and you’re bound to encounter some­thing or some­one Lynchi­an. Whether or not that idea lay behind Inter­view Project, the under­tak­ing had the endorse­ment of David Lynch him­self. Not coin­ci­den­tal­ly, it was con­ceived by his son Austin, who along with film­mak­er Jason S. (known for the doc­u­men­tary David Lynch: The Art Life), drove 20,000 miles through the U.S. in search of what it’s tempt­ing to call the real Amer­i­ca, a nation pop­u­lat­ed by col­or­ful, some­times des­per­ate, often uncon­ven­tion­al­ly elo­quent char­ac­ters, 121 of whom Inter­view Project finds pass­ing the day in bars, work­ing at stores, or just sit­ting on the road­side.

Source: David Lynch Releases on YouTube Interview Project: 121 Stories of Real America Recorded on a 20,000-Mile Road Trip by Open Culture

Liked https://danmeyer.substack.com/p/teachers-hate-these-kinds-of-paperwork (danmeyer.substack.com)

Teachers Hate These Kinds of Paperwork

They described these categories:

  • Student forms. “We still collect all the beginning-of-year stuff on paper! Emergency, income, medical, photo day, etc.”
  • Tracking spreadsheets. “Everything from school-wide student of the month, entering every locker combination and who’s using it, tech and supply requests, student data at both the school and district level, parent communication, etc.”
  • Field trip and event forms. “I made an approximately 15-step Google checklist my team manages for each field trip. Add to that the communication with school and outside organizations.”
  • Endless administrative work around eighth-grade graduation. “Between caps and gowns, T-shirts, trips, ceremony prep, etc, it’s a Google Sheet with probably 50+ cells of to do’s.”
  • Emails.
  • Writing lesson plans. Creating presentation slide decks. Compiling practice sets. Handouts. Notes.
  • Writing substitute lesson plans and posting announcements on Google Classroom.
  • Writing pre-observation and post-observation forms that align with Charlotte Danielson Framework that connects to lesson plans and lessons to be observed. “This happens two to three times a year for most teachers in my district.”
  • Writing, recording videos and doing work for National Board Certification or maintaining certification.
  • Grading, writing meaningful feedback, and entering formative and summative assessments on a regular basis of 150+ students.
  • Keeping up with communication and assignments posted on Google Classroom with students and families.
  • Recording and documenting Behavior Incident Reports. “Anytime we communicate home we need to document this internally.”
  • Keeping a running list of professional development records to get evaluated by the end of the year.
  • Maintaining documentation and filling out surveys and forms for students with IEPs and 504s in addition to attending the meetings.
  • Updating syllabi, course materials, including a daily schedule calendar.
  • Creating and maintaining permission slips for field trips.
  • Filing paperwork to request classroom supplies.

My Questions

If you are excited about the power of AI in education, I have several questions for you:

  • Which of these categories of paperwork do you imagine those teachers could outsource to AI?
  • How will the AI access all the context necessary to complete the paperwork?
  • Will the work involved in making that context accessible to the AI offset any productivity gains?

Honest questions. I think I know the answers, but I would love to be surprised here.

Source: Teachers Hate These Kinds of Paperwork. Can AI Help? by Dan Meyer

Bookmarked https://blog.ayjay.org/rortys-bastard-children/ (blog.ayjay.org)

It is pointless to insist that Democrats have not in fact unleashed weather weapons on Florida and the Carolinas; even more pointless to argue that if Democrats had such weather weapons they would have used them when Donald Trump was President in order to discredit him. Whether it is factually true that Democrats have and deploy weather weapons could not be more irrelevant; what matters is that this is the kind of thing we say about Democrats — so if you want to be part of this “we,” you’d better say it too. 

Source: Rorty’s bastard children – The Homebound Symphony by Alan Jacobs

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Alan Jacobs argues that the current situation, where we no longer speak in declaritive statements, but rather in language that creates solidarity, represents the bastard of Richard Rorty’s ideas on pragmatism, where the focus was on “building a new, more just, more generous society.”

Bookmarked Sixteen Tools for Enhancing Your Google Search Experience — SearchTweaks by ResearchBuzzResearchBuzz (researchbuzz.me)

Give these Search Tweaks a try. This site has eighteen tools for enhancing Google search in four categories — Query Builders, News-Related Search, Time-Related Search, and Search Utilities. Some tools, like Back that Ask Up, make existing Google features easier to use. Others, like Marion’s Monocle, add search functionality. Hold your mouse over each menu button to see a popup explainer of what a tool does. If you like what you see, give the button a click.

Source: SearchTweaks — tools to make your Web search easier/better/more productive

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The Searchtweaks is a website that has a number of queries built-in to help with searching the web. Along with Joshua Hardwick’s long list of the operators and Daniel Gross talks about using query language to build better searches, this site is helpful in going beyond ‘just Googling it‘.

ᔥ “Clive Thompson” in Linkfest #25: The “Third Thumb”, Prairie Strips, and Science Proves People Love Spoilers • Buttondown ()

Liked HTML for People (htmlforpeople.com)

HTML isn’t only for people working in the tech field. It’s for anybody, the way documents are for anybody. HTML is just another type of document. A very special one—the one the web is built on.

I’m Blake Watson. I’ve been building websites since the early 2000s. Though I work professionally in the field, I feel strongly that anyone should be able to make a website with HTML if they want. This book will teach you how to do just that. It doesn’t require any previous experience making websites or coding. I will cover everything you need to know to get started in an approachable and friendly way.

Ready? Let’s do it!

Source: HTML for People by Blake Watson

ᔥ “Jeremy Keith” in Adactio: Links—HTML for People ()

Bookmarked Ribbonfarm is Retiring by Venkatesh RaoVenkatesh Rao (ribbonfarm.com)

After several years of keeping it going in semi-retired, keep-the-lights-on (KTLO) mode, I’ve decided to officially fully retire this blog. The ribbonfarm.com domain and all links will remain active, but there will be no new content after November 13th, 2024, which happens to be my 50th birthday. There will be one final roundup post before then, and perhaps a shortish epitaph post. And the main page will switch to a static landing page. But after that date, this will effectively be a museum site.

Source: Ribbonfarm is Retiring by Venkatesh Rao

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Ribbonfarm is retiring. In reflecting upon experiences on the site, Venkatesh Rao doubles down on comments made regarding the convivial web when Musk took over Twitter, arguing that we are seeing the end of blogging. Although aspects of blogging may remain, such as RSS, the new media will have its own identity.

I don’t think there is any single heir to the blog, or to the public social media landscape it dominated, anymore than there was a single heir to the Roman empire when it collapsed. And this is as things should be. Emerging media should emerge into their own identities, not attempt to perpetuate the legacies of sundowning media, or fight over baggage. And of course, many architectural elements of the blog will live on in newer media, just as many patterns we live with today originated in the Roman empire. Chronological feeds, and RSS-like protocols are part of our collective technological vocabulary. So at least in a technological sense, nothing is dying per se. But in a cultural sense, we are definitely witnessing the end of an era.

Source: Ribbonfarm is Retiring by Venkatesh Rao

For Rao, much of this change is captured by the idea of the ‘cozyweb‘.

I like the way Rao describes the move from blogging to Substack as akin to getting a shaving and putting on a suit.

The blogosphere didn’t so much move to Substack as get gentrified by it, much as they’d like you to believe it did. And many of us transplanted bloggers got a shave and haircut, put on a suit, and went to work there, shoulder-to-shoulder with the old media types we once maintained ritual rivalries with, but are now increasingly indistinguishable from.

Source: Ribbonfarm is Retiring by Venkatesh Rao

I feel like I missed (or refused) the invite and seemingly retreated to my secluded shack in the hills.

Liked Doug Levin (@douglevin@infosec.exchange) (Infosec Exchange)

How the f*ck is it possible that an average user can manage this stuff? Why is Win such a trash fire? Can’t MSFT make a default config for non-technical home users that is locked down by default? She has literally ZERO chance against threat actors on the modern web.

We in tech have totally lost the plot…

I am NOT looking for advice (just use Linux or w/e). I am venting about shit UI, shit tech co’s pushing the next new crap tech for no other reason than $, and the state of the modern web.

Source: Oct 08, 2024, 12:31 AM by Doug Levin

Bookmarked YourBeatsWithAi: Mashups and Covers Made Easy with AI (yourbeatswithai.com)

Discover the power of AI with our easy-to-use music tools. Effortlessly extract stems from your favorite tracks, create AI covers using one of the many AI voices available on the web, generate unique songs from text, and mix them all together for exciting mashups. Make music your way with cutting-edge AI technology!

Source: YourBeatsWithAi: Mashups and Covers Made Easy with AI by

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YourBeatsWithAi allows you to use YouTube songs to change the vocals or split a track into stems using artificial intelligence. I think like all of these sorts of things, sometimes it can be interesting, while other times it can just sound weird.

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Replied to Crunch Time: Insects Are Not Going to Save Us by Jeremy CherfasJeremy Cherfas (eatthispodcast.com)

”Insect farming mostly adds an inefficient and expensive layer to the food system we already have.”

There’s just one fly in the ointment, so to speak. Most of the food that insects are fed isn’t waste at all, and after absorbing large amounts of investor cash, some of the biggest companies have gone bust. Dustin Crummett, executive director of the Insect Institute, shared his many reasons for saying that eating insects will not save the planet.

Crunch Time: Insects Are Not Going to Save Us – Eat This Podcast by Jeremy Cherfas

Many years ago, I remember eating a bag of crickets cooked in oil and garlic in Phnom Penh. I have always wondered about the prospect of insects ever since. This is clearly not the case.

The discussion of feed used to develop insects reminded me about Johann Hari’s discussion of processed food in his book Magic Pill:

Thirty years ago, it took twelve weeks for a factory-farmed chicken to reach its slaughter weight, but now it only takes five to six weeks. Broiler chickens are three times higher in fat today than they were when I was born, and the standard factory-farmed turkey now has such an obese chest that it can barely stand up.

So how did they do it? It turns out it was partly by restricting the animals’ movement—lots of them can’t even turn around in their cages. But even more importantly, they totally transformed their diets. If you feed a cow the whole food it evolved to eat—grass—it will take a year longer to reach its slaughter weight than if you feed it something different: a newly invented kind of ultra-processed feed, made up of grains, chemicals, hormones, and antibiotics. Because the animals don’t like the taste of this fake food, the agricultural corporations often add artificial sweetness to it—Jell-O powder is popular, especially with a strawberry-banana flavoring. When you mix a sweet-tasting formula like this into their processed food, lambs will rapidly add 30 percent to their body weight.

If you deliberately want to make an animal fat, you take away what its ancestors ate and give it an ultra-processed and artificially sweetened replica instead. In other words—Big Agriculture does to animals precisely what the processed food industry is doing to us and our children every day.

Source: Magic Pill by Johann Hari

Bookmarked Someone Put Facial Recognition Tech onto Meta's Smart Glasses to Instantly Dox Strangers by Joseph CoxJoseph Cox (404 Media)

A pair of students at Harvard have built what big tech companies refused to release publicly due to the overwhelming risks and danger involved: smart glasses with facial recognition technology that automatically looks up someone’s face and identifies them. The students have gone a step further too. Their customized glasses also pull other information about their subject from around the web, including their home address, phone number, and family members.

Source: Someone Put Facial Recognition Tech onto Meta’s Smart Glasses to Instantly Dox Strangers by Joseph Cox

Joseph Cox shares a project developed by AnhPhu Nguyen and Caine Ardayfio called I-XRAY.

Initially started as a side project, I-XRAY quickly highlighted significant privacy concerns. The purpose of building this tool is not for misuse, and we are not releasing it. Our goal is to demonstrate the current capabilities of smart glasses, face search engines, LLMs, and public databases, raising awareness that extracting someone’s home address and other personal details from just their face on the street is possible today.

Source: I-XRAY

The project uses a pair of Meta’s commercially available Ray Ban smart glasses to scan faces and then use Pimeyes to lookup the user.

Bookmarked The blogosphere is in full bloom. The rest of the internet has wilted by John Naughton (The Guardian)

So Dave was present at the creation of some cool stuff, but it was blogging that brought him to a wider public. “Some people were born to play country music,” he wrote at one stage. “I was born to blog. At the beginning of blogging I thought everyone would be a blogger. I was wrong. Most people don’t have the impulse to say what they think.” Dave was the exact opposite. He was (and remains) articulate and forthright. His formidable record as a tech innovator meant that he couldn’t be written off as a crank. The fact that he was financially secure meant that he didn’t have to suck up to anyone: he could speak his mind. And he did. So from the moment he launched Scripting News in October 1994 he was a distinctive presence on the web.

Source: The blogosphere is in full bloom. The rest of the internet has wilted by John Naughton

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I am left reflecting about the idea that Winer is ‘financially secure’ and the impact that has on his voice.

Liked A month lost in the North Cascades without food or shelter: Hiker details improbable rescue by Julia TellmanJulia Tellman (cascadiadaily.com)

Robert Schock, a 39-year-old wanderer without a permanent address, set off for a day run in the North Cascades at the end of July with minimal supplies and his dog — and never returned to the trailhead.

Family members and first responders were alerted to his disappearance in early August. After extensive searches of the remote, mountainous area, including by helicopter, most believed he would likely not be found alive. 

But on Aug. 30, young crew members of the Pacific Northwest Trail Association discovered Schock, dangerously emaciated and unable to move but still alive, lying on the rocky bank of the Chilliwack River. His rescue has been called improbable, amazing and heroic. 

Source: A month lost in the North Cascades without food or shelter: Hiker details improbable rescue | Cascadia Daily News by CascadiaDaily

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