guy who’s born in “le wrong generation” but really wishes he could’ve been writing political economy in 1890-1920

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed bloggers can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has

a man who kills himself because it’s the only way to stop the USPS from delivering spam to his home—an intrusion whose obnoxiousness is deeply intertwined with its constancy

Someone in Palo Alto shapes our tools, and our tools in turn shape us.

a world with computers so small that computation, like asbestos, must be abated

freud claims that the universal aspect of the tale of oedipus is the subliminal incestuous desire. this is wrong. the universal aspect of oedipus is coming to an understanding of what one has wrought only after it reaches completion; gazing upon it for the first time, and gouging one's eyes out, unable to live or die.