Tag Archives: Web

I refute your central point, fuck face.

April 8, 2008 – 04:06 pm

From Paul Graham’s How to Disagree: “If we’re all going to be disagreeing more, we should be careful to do it well. What does it mean to disagree well? Most readers can tell the difference between mere name-calling and a carefully reasoned refutation, but I think it would help to put names on the intermediate [...]

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Why White People Like ‘Stuff White People Like’

March 18, 2008 – 11:49 am

From The New Republic’s Why White People Like ‘Stuff White People Like’: “Because if there’s one thing white people really like, it’s pretending to poke fun at themselves while actually being allowed to feel superior.”

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Virtual Housecleaning

March 9, 2008 – 05:45 pm

After several months of procrastination, I’ve finally gone through the entire site and cleaned up the wild mess of categories that we’ve accumulated over the last four years of blogging, deleting pretty much all but the categories that have an icon assigned to them, and reassigning our 1,558 posts to an appropriate category.
For example, until [...]

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Finding A Place For Neil

February 21, 2008 – 02:31 am

Last week I finished the thirty-second book of my Goddard career, a 588-page adventure-story cum inquest into the development of American spirituality entitled American Gods. I’m going to post my annotation of it probably tomorrow or next week, but I don’t want to talk about that now. What I want to talk about is that, [...]

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Best Links of 2007: February

December 2, 2007 – 08:52 pm

View the best links of January 2007.
February
From Counterpunch’s The Collapse of the American Empire: “All empires collapse eventually: Akkad, Sumeria, Babylonia, Ninevah, Assyria, Persia, Macedonia, Greece, Carthage, Rome, Mali, Songhai, Mongonl, Tokugawaw, Gupta, Khmer, Hapbsburg, Inca, Aztec, Spanish, Dutch, Ottoman, Austrian, French, British, Soviet, you name them, they all fell, and most within a few [...]

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Best Links of 2007: January

November 28, 2007 – 02:09 pm

As often as possible, I provide links and summations to the best of that day’s web. The links are filed them away in a little category called “Asides” and they get stuck in the sidebar on the homepage, in a box titled “Links of the Day.” Over the course of this year, I’ve linked to [...]

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Introducing ReCaptcha

August 24, 2007 – 11:24 am

First of all, hat tip to Julian’s Twitter message for this one.
Now, maybe you’ve noticed that the comments on FI have been a little slow lately (not to mention the posts themselves). At first, I was thinking that no one was commenting because, well, no one was really writing. But then I remembered, a few [...]

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The Coming Virtual Web

April 19, 2007 – 01:57 pm

From BusinessWeek’s The Coming Virtual Web: “Before long, the Internet of the future, and the vast wealth of information and services on it, will look different: slicker, more realistic, more interactive and social than anything we experience today through the Web browser.”

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goodreads

April 12, 2007 – 11:02 am

From goodreads: “Most book recommendation websites work by listing random people’s reviews. On Goodreads, when a person adds a book to the site, all their friends can see what they thought of it. It’s common sense. People are more likely to get excited about a book their friend recommends than a suggestion from a stranger.” [...]

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6 Startup Lessons For The Year 2007

February 8, 2007 – 01:36 pm

From 6 Startup Lessons For The Year 2007: “Startups have been multiplying like rabbits over the past three years. Due to the added competition, many startups are beginning to narrow their focus to a much smaller demographic. The year 2007 will mark the transition from startups aiming for the mainstream markets to specialists intensely focused [...]

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