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The singularity is past. We're already living in a collective consciousness with behaviors exceeding the capacity of any human or machine to understand, because that collective has intelligence exceeding our own by definition....
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Continue readingOn September 22nd, 2007, I got together with several of my friends Eve Phillips, Jocelyn Joy Berl, Travis Kalanick, Nathan Schmidt, and Alan Keefer and with the inspiration of my brother Chris Weekly1 we tasted a number of beers and rated them, along...
Continue readingHelp. My identity has been spread too thin....
Continue readingIn this talk for STIRR1 FounderHacks, I emphasize that founders should have their product do the simplest thing possible and let their users guide but not design! their product....
Continue reading> Landmark is a popular and profitable program in the US that claims to teach people how to better master themselves and their perceptions of the world. A number of my friends have attended or have considered attending at one point or another. I expl...
Continue readingEvery person and every animal has built in a desire to survive and to better themselves. Upon this self-centric axiom systems such as Objectivism1 are built. Such systems lack something central to the human experience &8211; desire for the direct bet...
Continue reading> Much of the "blogosphere" seems to be an echo chamber, with its own terminology including the word "blogosphere", cult leaders, conferences, and memes. Why? Is this healthy?\...
Continue readingI am rather appalled by the continuing aftermath of the publication of a few single-frame cartoon images of Muhammad in a Danish newspaper nearly half a year ago. A natural question has gone unasked: how many, if any, of those protesting have actuall...
Continue readingAbout half a year ago, I decided to go sign up for a Vonage account. This was mainly because I found myself needing to send faxes quite a bit, and it didn't seem too expensive. So I signed up....
Continue readinga very rambling and awfully incoherent saturday writing, done without the benefit of breakfast, or even lunch....
Continue readingI had a weird experience today chatting with a hacker on ICQ who had taken over my friend's account. The conversation's too weird to have made up:...
Continue readingSome of you may have noticed that david.weekly.org was down last week for several days. Email to me bounced and there was general havoc in my online life. What happened? Did I get slashdotted? No....
Continue readingThis article describes modern ad-blocking technique, their effectiveness, and how advertisers are likely to work around them....
Continue readingThe PS3 will be significant for Blu-Ray. And vice versa....
Continue readingI'm still a business newbie, I'll admit it. I haven't made a million dollars yet and I haven't been on the cover of a magazine in a while. Although I was the subject of a Fortune cover article back in the day. But it's been m...
Continue readingThis article explains why thin form-factor servers like blades may not be a good idea....
Continue readingThis article describes a system for making useful transcripts of Voice over IP VoIP chats....
Continue readingThe Intellectual Property Wage Slave or Why You Should Quit Your Job A study of the productivity of software programmers shows the most talented coders to be over 100 times more efficient than the meanest. It is clear, however, that there is nowhe...
Continue readingA few days ago, it occured to me that it would be useful if my alarm clock knew to awake me an hour before my first appointment of the day, as automatically pulled down from my Yahoo! Calendar. All the alarm clock would really need to do is to have a...
Continue readingA number of friends have asked me of late what my take is on podcasting. It's certainly a hot new buzzword; but is it really the "next step for blogging"? It doesn't seem obvious to me....
Continue readingThe cell phone market bugs me. It seems to have been taken over by marketers utterly out of touch with the reality of what people are looking for in a phone, their singular focus instead on a cheap game of one-upmanship with the competition. In recen...
Continue readingSo here we are, post-election, and George Bush has won. A lot of people, Bush supporters and otherwise, are dumbfounded by the numbers. The Republican party...
Continue readingYour blog can and will be used against you in a court of law....
Continue readingSo I'm back from Ghana, safe and sound minus a nasty cold I picked up on some continent. I never get sick! The camp was a resounding success; sorry for not posting more here earlier, but it's been a total zoo. I got back last night at 2pm a...
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