wow. there are currently 181 items in my amazon wishlist now. it’s too bad for them that their still at it w/ the whole patent thing. also, i think i’m onto their secret plan with their dual tab menu. they’re going to make the current design so ugly that we’ll be happy when they switch completely to that white / cerulean design that made people violently ill at the end of last year (and that they’ve been determinedly forcing in).

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When you compose an argument using hyperlinks, it’s unnatural to speak of on logical progressions from A to B to C. When your statements are linked not only to the statements of other people but also to all their ramifications, there is no way that you can insist on intellectual property rights. There’s only an intellectual process. And somewhere in that process, hierarchy loses its power.

i’ve been reading some more of ray kurzweil’s age of spiritual machines, which i started the end of last year but never got a chance to finish. i’m especially amused with his supplementary section on how to build and intelligent machine in three easy paradigms.

anyway, a good diversion from the market madness going on. like no one knew what was going to happen. some interesting conversations going on at /. right now (threshold 3).