Posts from — February 2003

Why everything goes wrong. Joel Spolsky offers an insightful sermon that explains why everything goes wrong at once. [Mark Bernstein]

how many times, over the history of man, does it have to be too late….

Fray Cafe 3 at SXSW [bOing bOing]

I won Declan and SXSW's free interactive festival pass (free is good when you are a low paid academic), so I'm going to be in Austin for this and hope I'll see others there.

William Gibson's blog is becoming, day by day, an astonishingly rich trove of insight and ideas. Check out this essay titled “IN THE VISEGRIPS OF DR. SATAN (WITH VANNEVAR BUSH),” then read on to find out what Gibson thought about “The Matrix” when he finally watched it. [Scott Rosenberg's Links & Comment]

whether he wants to be or not, Gibson is part of the cultural zeitgeist of the internet, he enables its mythos as much as J.P. Barlow.

2nd Shuttle gone.

CNN: “The space shuttle Columbia, carrying a crew of seven, broke up Saturday morning 200,000 feet above Texas.” [Scripting News] [Ross Mayfield's Weblog] An image is worth a 200,000 words.

[Marc's Voice] [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]

a tragedy…. sometimes complex systems fail…