Come to the edge.
~ Christopher Logue
We might fall.
Come to the edge.
It’s too high!
COME TO THE EDGE!
And they came,
and he pushed,
and they flew.
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Come to the edge →
Knowledge workers as a political class? →
Other people are recognizing that we work in an important intersection of knowledge and responsibility, too. I came across a presentation from this year’s Chaos Communication Congress in Germany. It was a talk by Jacob Appelbaum and Julian Assange, who were introduced by Sarah Harrison. The name of the talk was SysAdmins of the World Unite.
~ Matt Simmons from, «http://www.standalone-sysadmin.com/blog/2013/12/knowledge-workers-as-a-political-class/»
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Southern Comfort →
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Don’t waste time →
Be a good person, but don’t waste time trying to prove it.
~ unknown
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The NSA behemoth →
The spate of new NSA disclosures substantially raises the stakes of this debate. We now know that the intelligence establishment systematically undermines oversight by lying to both Congress and the courts. We know that the NSA infiltrates internet standard-setting processes to security protocols that make surveillance harder. We know that the NSA uses persuasion, subterfuge, and legal coercion to distort software and hardware product design by commercial companies.
~ Yochai Benkler, from Time to tame the NSA behemoth trampling our rights
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Electricity usage continues to decline →
Because of more energy-efficient housing, appliances and gadgets, power usage is on track to decline in 2013 for the third year in a row, to its lowest point since 2001, even though our lives are more electrified.
~ Jonathan Fahey, from Home electricity use in US falling to 2001 levels
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Refining the Spirit of Parkour →
“Parkour is a movement discipline based on using only the body to interact with the environment and navigate one’s surroundings.”
It’s sort of long winded and it isn’t the kind of sentence that is going to sell parkour to an onlooker immediately, but I think that real philosophical grounding comes from strongly defined terms. Whether one’s style of parkour is efficient (fast), superfluous (flashy), direct (a to b), meandering (flow), applied (real situations), or supplemental (conditioning), I think that the above definition manages to cover the things that traceurs do.
~ Albert Kong, from «http://www.lethalbeef.com/blog/?p=193»
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USS Furse →
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Interstellar →
Our greatest accomplishments cannot be behind us, because our destiny lies above us.
~ Teaser Trailer for Nolan’s ‘Interstellar’ Starring Matthew McConaughey
Interstellar. November.
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