| taking a leave of absence from USC, working for the Google. hosting my own webspace now.
the new online home
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| In case anyone stumbles on this page,
my xanga is long gone stale.
hopefully you will find http://fairuz.isi.edu/blog much tastier and fresher.
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| Informing Ourselves to Death:
http://world.std.com/~jimf/informing.html
"Everything from telegraphy and
photography in the 19th century to the silicon chip in the twentieth
has amplified the din of information, until matters have reached such
proportions today that for the average person, information no longer
has any relation to the solution of problems."
"I believe you will have to concede that what ails us, what causes
us the most misery and pain -- at both cultural and personal levels --
has nothing to do with the sort of information made accessible by
computers. The computer and its information cannot answer any of the
fundamental questions we need to address to make our lives more
meaningful and humane. The computer cannot provide an organizing
moral framework. It cannot tell us what questions are worth asking. It
cannot provide a means of understanding why we are here or why we
fight each other or why decency eludes us so often, especially when we
need it the most. The computer is, in a sense, a magnificent toy that
distracts us from facing what we most needed to confront -- spiritual
emptiness, knowledge of ourselves, usable conceptions of the past and
future. Does one blame the computer for this? Of course not. It is,
after all, only a machine. But it is presented to us, with trumpets
blaring, as at this conference, as a technological messiah."
Wow. A must-read.
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| More nerd-world-vs-real-world combinations...
Hilarity ensues.
Dating Design Patterns
http://datingdesignpatterns.com/index.html
Amazon link...
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