argh, done
finished the rolling-over process from the travelog to this blog. pain in the arse! 2850 entries at this point, now the hard work of adding several thousand images along with much more audio, and other...
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the radio aporee ::: maps project reached a downright Taoist level today with the uploading of the 10,000th global collaborative phonography sound sample. I was watching closely as the numbers crept...
View Articlethe predatory life/death: lex talionis
With the growth of industry comes the possibility of a predatory life; and if the groups of savages crowd one another in the struggle for subsistence, there is a provocation to hostilities, and a...
View Articlepassing note
500 grams of carbon dioxide per passenger-mile flying 250 grams of carbon dioxide per passenger-mile driving These are very approximate/average numbers and are affected by the type of plane/vehicle and...
View ArticleWednesday, 13 September, 1961
Read some more on Nelson B’s paper and the report by A. F. Smith on his 11 July trip to CAL to attend a PA Colloquium; I wish I could have gone to this! Cooler – overcast It cooled off last night,...
View Articlenaming
“What is it?” we ask, meaning what is its name? This odd quirk of the human mind: Unless we can name things, they remain for us only half-real. Or less than half-real: nonexistent. A man without a name...
View ArticleFull dissertation text: The Regime of Amplification
Well, I guess it’s about time to put the PhD dissertation text out there in .pdf form, so, here it is: The Regime of Amplification. Have at it, be polite, no grabbing, pushing, or shoving. Do not fold,...
View Articlequick transit
with a truckload of stuff, it’s too complicated to camp extensively. and, in retrospect, not much to say anyway. got to get back in Prescott to get organized for the ensuing departure.
View Articleroad :: amplifier / the difference?
The amplifier/road difference would sound something like this: I defined the amplifier as a concept which exists at many different scales and in both ‘natural’ and human-dominated systems (though that...
View Articlethe cost
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in...
View Articleconformity of protocol
The Press, too, in my opinion, is increasingly becoming a purveyor of orthodoxy than an expression of individual views. The State which in a variety of ways, ranging between subtle pressure and...
View Articlede-Facebooking
This space accreting, while the gradual shutting-down of FaceBook proceeds. After the Lightning trip from Yuma through Calexico on northward to the Bay Area and back 48 hours later with my original...
View Articledo, do not
In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are its worst. In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly, the...
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