“Toward the end of his life, the architect Frank Lloyd Wright often said that with 20 more years he could rebuild America, and give it an architecture that was organic, natural, and truly its own. Others called him arrogant for making these claims, but he would respond that a great nation should expect its great architects to build it great buildings. ... The... human race—the struggling journalists, the embattled authors of books, the makers of music, the normal folks who have been robbed of their individuality by today’s web—should expect its... world builders to build them beautiful, honest, nourishing worlds.”

“With the reworked, Habermasian Twitter programme, people are forced to reflect on their public image in a three-fold way. What *do* (or don't) I know that I'm prepared to form a cognitive reputation on? What *should* I do, that I'm prepared to form a moral reputation on? What *do* I like, that I'm prepared to form an aesthetic reputation on?”

so very worth the 45 minutes

Pseudo sent me a copy of Diablo II. Good times.

further coda, plus: “Teach a man to punch someone in the face and you get a boxer, but teach a man to punch anyone in the face and you get a weblogger.”

Omg. Anonymous well and truly delivers.

“The solution we're creating is simple: an open-source filter software that can detect rampant stupidity in written English.”

The author's friend is saved from a Munchausen-by-Internet-proxy by Harlan Ellison

"O brave new world that has such algorithms in it."