5 month ago
Linkorama : Relationships on the Internet - A relationship is the context within which we observe one another. Past history and even attitudes are not directly observable. This is imperfect—distant relationships are the basis for inaccuracies. More observations at a closer distance make for a mor
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11 month ago
deusx : Rands In Repose: The Nerd Handbook - "While I don’t know who you are or why in the world you chose a nerd for your companion, I do know that you are not a knowable system. I know that you are messy, just like your nerd. Being your own quirky self will be more than enough to present ne
Linkorama : The Nerd Handbook - A nerd needs a project because a nerd builds stuff. All the time. Those lulls in the conversation over dinner? That’s the nerd working on his project in his head.
Rod Begbie : Rands In Repose: The Nerd Handbook - Great Rands article. It's a bit hit-or-miss describing me, but the section "Nerds are fucking funny" sums me up perfectly. "Humor is an intellectual puzzle, "How can this particular set of esoteric trivia be constructed to maximize hilarity as quickly a #
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jimray : How to Tell When a Relationship is Over - "It's a gay thing"
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23 month ago
plasticbag : Apparently thinking of three good things that happened to you or you did before going to bed improves general happiness - This is an AP story, heavily syndicated all over the internets. I wonder about things like the AP. It drives me mad that this link probably won't work in a few weeks. At the moment it's on hundreds of sites. In a year? I don't know that it'll be on any. D
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26 month ago
jimray : A perfect pair, thinks you. - Made me smile
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26 month ago
deusx : ::HorsePigCow:: marketing uncommon: The Donut-Cheeseburger Moment - "I knew this was an omen, a sweet and greasy sign that things were over. There was no turning back to the time before the donut cheeseburger."
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27 month ago
Linkorama : Don’t Break the Web - an issue raised: if you’re going to make connections, then you have to honor those connections and keep the Web working.
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31 month ago
Linkorama : Business as Morality - You have to be generous in relationships.
WillPate : O'Reilly Radar > Doc Searls: Business as Morality - "Morality of generosity. We give. We are open. We love without expectation of reward, or even accounting."
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31 month ago
Linkorama : The Sobriety of Loss - To value the conversation as the people involved in the conversation - and not merely the posts. To take things slowly in order to learn from what people do and not just what they say. Most wisdom cannot be quoted. It's what we learn when people aren't
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31 month ago
Linkorama : A word or two on love - Oh and by the way if the above is too new age and namby pamby for you I reckon social computing is capable of talking 25% out of the running costs of most businesses - so there!
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32 month ago
WillPate : HOWTO Listen to Women: The One Thing Every Mangeek Should Know - Note to self: have the discipline to apply this advice consistently.
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33 month ago
gleuschk : The Science Creative Quarterly » A GAME THEORETIC APPROACH TO THE TOILET SEAT PROBLEM - this analysis should settle the toilet seat controversey for once and for all - if John and Marsha are mathematicians.
Rod Begbie : The Science Creative Quarterly » A GAME THEORETIC APPROACH TO THE TOILET SEAT PROBLEM - Hooray! I've been looking for this article for years, but couldn't remember its name. "I expect that this analysis should settle the toilet seat controversey for once and for all - if John and Marsha are mathematicians." [via] #
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plasticbag : How single people are facing financial meltdown... - It's way way way more expensive to live by yourself, or to buy a home buy yourself, than it is to do so with a partner to share the burden...
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38 month ago
plasticbag : Matt Biddulph talks "Using Wikipedia and the Yahoo API to give structure to flat lists" - We've been having enormous fun at work at the moment experimenting with semantic network effects at the level of services. Totally worth a read this. Tip of the ice-berg...
Paul Hammond : hackdiary: Using Wikipedia and the Yahoo API to give structure to flat lists - an impressive result that comes at zero cost
kellan : hackdiary: Using Wikipedia and the Yahoo API to give structure to flat lists - I think we're starting to reach a tipping point of sufficient semi-structured data on the web. #
philgyford : Hackdiary: Using Wikipedia and the Yahoo API to give structure to flat lists - Matt Biddulph doing clever stuff. Would be good to try this with some Pepys stuff I think.
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45 month ago
philgyford : Boing Boing: Romantic and sex relation structure of high school students - Juicy network diagrams.
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plasticbag : Open Brackets on Mike Leigh's "Secrets and Lies" and what it feels like to have been adopted - I wasn't adopted, but I had a similar reaction to Secrets and Lies. I haven't seen my father since I was two years old and have really mixed feelings about whether I should be looking for him or not.
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