Graham Hill: Less stuff, more happiness | Video on TED.com.
An intriguing talk. If I lived in a dense urban area I might consider the editing he talks about. My main problem is that I don’t want to put my books into digital format.The second problem is that you can’t fit two people into his space. That will need some extreme editing.
I wonder how he gets that coffee table to seat 10 for dining? I think I found the link. Its not a coffee table.
Transforming Tables: Convert Coffee to Dining Surfaces | Designs & Ideas on Dornob.
Some neat ideas here.
In my previous Post I remarked that I didn’t consider FDR’s Second Bill of Rights to be rights. Rather, I consider them to be responsibilities a society owes its members.
Just to clarify the matter, I believe Rights are what individuals holds within themselves. To say someone has a right to health care immediately implies that the health care giver is obligated and does not have the right to refuse. This violates the rights of the health care giver.The same may be said for housing, employment, education, etc.
But a Society does have the Responsibility to provide to its members health care access (even basic health care), basic housing, basic education, competitive opportunities in business, equal employment opportunities, and a social assurance to the elderly, disabled, unemployed and young. I think FDR’s Bill of Rights baselines a good deal of society’s responsibilities to its members.
I did find a copy of l(a in my copy of The Norton Introduction to Literature – Poetry – edited by J.Paul Hunter. My edition goes back to 1973. And the layout in this edition is different from the on-line layouts. The ‘ll’ line has a space between the line above and the line below.
Two spaces after a period: Why you should never, ever do it. – Slate Magazine.
The author makes a very good point that two spaces after a period is unnecessary in a proportional font world. Very useful in a in a mono-spaced world. I also thought the author spent too much time disparaging the double spacers of the world (probably needed to fill in all the space he had left).
One point for continuing the double space method is to make it easier to parse e-text by computer. Although with computing getting much more capable of figuring out what people intend, this may be a moot point.
And, of course, this does not apply to writers that are using the spaces on a page to complete their work.
I was trying to find a link, using E E Cummings as an example. I found l(a as a candidate and then went on to find at least three different versions on the web, laid out differently and spelled differently. And I don’t have a printed copy in hand to determine which version is closest to the author’s vision. But if you go to Collected Poems 1922-1938 you will see that a number of his poems depend on the actual layout of the letters and the empty spaces, as well as the content of the words.
This looks like an interesting desktop app… If only they had it for Linux
Well, we jumped off the deep end today and dropped our landline connection. We got the Ooma Telo a few weeks ago, tried it out and thought it worked and sounded OK. Then we requested to port our current phone number to Ooma. I figure that the Ooma will pay for itself in less than a year if we dropped Qwest. Today I went out to the box on the side of the house and disconnected from the phone network. I plugged Ooma into the house wiring and now all the phones in the house are running through Ooma.
After a lifetime wired into the network, it will be interesting to see what happens. We are on a MMDS broadband wireless connection to the internet so the only physical connection to the grid is the electricity. Ooma will redirect calls to our cell phone if the network connection is down so I am expecting a some redundant connectivity. Of course, if a power loss drops our MMDS tower, it may drop the cell phone tower as well, and then where would we be? And all the electricity in the phone lines will be laughing at us.
If you don’t hear anything more from me on this then everything is going so smoothly I have forgotten all about it.
Sen. Collins said the bill would not allow the President to deactivate the Internet in whole or in part during times of political unrest or protest – just during a “cyber emergency,” according to Wired.com.
“My legislation would provide a mechanism for the government to work with the private sector in the event of a true cyber emergency,” Collins said in an e-mailed response to Wired.com last week. “It would give our nation the best tools available to swiftly respond to a significant threat.”
via Internet ‘kill switch’ bill reintroduced as Egypt remains dark.
Any bets that a time of political unrest or protest won’t be labeled “cyber emergency”?
I think it would be more appropriate to up a domain where the folks afraid of cyber-terrorists can hide and if the cyber emergency happens then they can be unplugged, leaving the rest of us bereft of their presence.