the way in was social engineering. some background.
Category: various
Boxing Lessons
One more from the opinionator, Gordon Marino on Boxing Lessons.
Fear is painful, but it can be faced, and in time a boxer learns not to panic about the blows that will be coming his way.
The Spoils of Happiness
The Spoils of Happiness by David Sosa for the opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com (cache: archive.org)
Happiness is more like knowledge than like belief.
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To live a happy life is to flourish.
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Happiness is harder to get. It’s enjoyed after you’ve worked for something, or in the presence of people you love, or upon experiencing a magnificent work of art or performance — the kind of state that requires us to engage in real activities of certain sorts, to confront real objects and respond to them.
An embodied knowledge situated in events and one’s immediate scene.
Update : 072021
old zuckerberg IMs
This is sort of related to the previous xkcd post.
ZUCK: i have over 4000 emails, pictures, addresses, sns
FRIEND: what!? how’d you manage that one?
ZUCK: people just submitted it
ZUCK: i don’t know why
ZUCK: they “trust me”
xkcd: Password Reuse
via xkcd: Password Reuse.
E-merce at Moca
Tom Cullen
He was the main technician working on the installation of Video: An Art, a History, 1965-2005, New Media Collection, Centre Pompidou, curated by Christine Van Assche, currently at MAC.
His site is brilliant. He openly offers ideas for professional audio/video installation.
various notes
There will be about nine art fairs in Miami, this December.
How should one buy a piano? I know we will for sure.
95 theses of Geek Activisism. (via)
- Violating a license agreement is not theft.
- All corporations are not on your side.
- Fair use is a good thing.
- Use multiple operating systems regularly so you truly understand interoperability.
- Read of Thoreau’s words on civil disobedience.
- Blog.