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Engineers on TLDs: Do You Want Me With Fries? on CircleID by Vittorio Bertola:

This is why engineering solutions are not carved in stone, and young engineers have always been eating up old engineers since gave engineering to the world. That’s not because the old solutions were better than the new ones, or the opposite, but because new needs and new expectations arose among the users of the technology.

One word: Lovely!

I was one of the 30-something engineers who ‘ask’ for (IDN) TLD.

While I can sense some consensus on stage and off-stage of the need of IDN TLDs, the response I get from 60-something engineers (whose status is close to been ‘God’ right now) revolves around trying to get things 100% right before proceeding.

Don’t get me wrong: I have great respects for elderly engineers who has contributed so much to make Internet what is today – and I always value their wisdoms and advises. But seeking perfect solution is no difference then say ‘no’ – at least to the one making the request.

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(Via James Seng’s Blog.)

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it might also be that 60 year old engineers are embedded in institutions and with that they take a representational role of their understanding of those institution’s interests…. if you make money off of fewer tld’s and your friends make money off fewer…. you might, subconsciously, make more stringent ‘engineering decisions’ than you would otherwise. this is a form of sub-political governance.

The Growth and Development of Humanities Computing – Martyn Jessop, Ubiquity: “The application of computing to research problems in the humanities is not new. One of the acknowledged pioneers in this area, Father Robert Busa, began his work on the Index Thomisticus (an index to the works of the medieval theologian Thomas Aquinas”

(Via Online Learning Update.)

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textual computing is more what this seems to focus on…. i think there is much much more. this admits more, but when you talk about projects…. they tend to center on texual or textualizing data….

The Dude Prophetizes: ”
New shit has come to light, man.
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(Via Dan Says.)

coincidence….. i think so… remember of course that sept11 is 911 and 911 means emergency in the u.s.

WorldNetDaily: Rumsfeld says 9-11 plane
’shot down’ in Pennsylvania: “During his surprise Christmas Eve trip to Iraq, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld referred to the flight being shot down – long a suspicion because of the danger the flight posed to Washington landmarks and population centers.”

(Via .)

sometimes the elderly forget what they aren’t supposed to say….

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Susan Sontag Dies at Age 71 at The Washington Post (reg. req’d) (Dec 28, 2004)

(Via .)

Death of Susan Sontag: “

Susan Sontag is dead from leukaemia; the New York Times has an obituary here.

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(Via Crooked Timber.)

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i’m probably the only one that will say this, but she was like Walter Benjamin with the insight of editors.

antonio sorrentinoy: “”

(Via .)

the chipmonks gone bad.

this is the one where small gifts count, tolerance, smiles, and the present of good naturedness is highly prized.

BreakingNews.ie: Police order cover up of naked gnome: “‘Using their discretion a police officer spoke to the owner who agreed a suitable course of action in dressing the gnomes more appropriately on the grounds of decency.’”

(Via .)

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gnome freedom!