Visiting Boston, Cambridge
To all those of you in the Boston area, I’m planning on stopping by sometime soon (tenatively April 23) to…
Rescued Data
I’ve finally rescued the data off one of my oldest machines, snicker-snack. One of the things I recovered was the…
Today’s Hack: display.cgi
I just whipped up display.cgi (source), a little CGI script to display some HTML that you type in. I’ve wanted…
Aaron Swartz Movies
Introducing: Aaron Swartz Movies, proving my insanity once again. Let me know what you think.…
Noam on Terrorism
Noam Chomsky: The New War Against Terrorism. Chomsky is the kind of person who is so eminently reasonable that you…
Evidence
Godfrey Reggio: Evidence: The pervasive nature of Technology. This looks very interesting, anyone know where I can get a copy?…
Instant Outliners
Dave Winer: Radio.Outliners.Com : How the OPML Coffee Mug works Awesome! This has always been Radio’s big strength for me:…
A New Kind of Society
The Atlantic: Seeing Around Corners by Rauch. From Artificial Societies to Zipf distributions, an interesting article on complexity theory, or…
More Vanity: All About Aaron
I’ve moved some of the boring lists off my homepage and onto About Aaron Swartz, a vanity page of the…
Other
Google: St. Patrick’s Day, Google News [via kottke] Question: Is there a Google Weblog? I want to know all the…
Other
Small pieces loosely joined, which don’t deserve their own weblog entries. Hack of the Day: Aaron’s Do The Right Thing.…
The Science of Rejection
New Scientist: Rejection from peer groups decreases IQ scores and increases agression. “These are very big effects - the biggest…
Interesting Conferences (and the interesting people attending them)
I put together a list of Interesting Conferences (with interest attendees in parentheses). Let me know if you’ve got additions…
Happy Pi Day
A very happy Pi day to you and yours. Too bad there’ll be no festivities at aD this year.…
Learning on the Road
Boston Globe: Road scholar finds home at MIT. A fascinating story about a boy who learned while traveling the country…
Aaron joins Creative Commons as RDF Advisor
SF Gate: All Hail Creative Commons: Stanford professor and author Lawrence Lessig plans a legal insurrection. Today I’ve been given…
Aaron’s Photo Albums
I’ve started putting up photos on my website in Aaron’s Photo Albums. I’ve got photos from my trip to the…
Goodbye, Brent.
Brent Simmons is leaving UserLand. Brent always had a provoking thought, a kind word and a helping hand. I wish…
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