Not Sustainable

Venkatesh Rao on the return of the Barbar Ian. (more)

A death march is a forced march of prisoners of war or other captives or deportees with the intent to kill, brutalize, weaken and/or demoralize as many of the captives as possible along the way. It is distinguished in this way from simple prisoner transport via foot march. Death marches usually feature harsh physical labor and abuse, neglect of prisoner injury and illness, deliberate starvation and dehydration, humiliation and torture, and execution of those unable to keep up the marching pace. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_march (more)

IDEO shows Video of 3 concepts of near-future EBook-s. (more)

WebApp I discovered Dec'2012. (more)

HTC Android Mobile I use as Aug'2012 (more)

Why might I want to use a Wiki for my PIM? So that everything can cross-reference via WikiWord-s. (more)

company that bought PC business from IBM (more)

see Auto-Complete

David Brin has a number of short stories on his website. I just read Stones Of Significance. But that began to change in the Atomic West, when several successive generations arrived that had no personal experience with hunger, no living memory of invasion or pillaging hordes. As fear gradually gave way to wealth and leisure, our more natural temperaments emerged. Especially a deeply human fascination toward the alien, the outsider. With each downward notching of personal anxiety, people assertively expanded the notion of Citizen-ry, swelling it outward. First to other humans - groups and individuals who had been oppressed. Then to manlike species - apes and cetaceans. Then whole living EcoSystem-s... Artificial Intelligence-s... and laudable works of art. All won protection against capricious power. All attained the ThreeBasicMaterialRights (Civil Rights) - continuity, Mutual Obligation, and the PursuitOfHappiness... Each separate version sat down and stared at its jewel of significance, glowing faintly at the one-percent level, for more than an hour of internal subjective time, moodily contemplating thoughts that ranged from irony to possible suicide... I did not want all the creativity in the cosmos to reduce to a vast, self-organizing stew, rapidly discovering every possibility within a single day. For one thing, what will we do with ourselves once we use it all up! What can come next, with real-time immortality stretching ahead of us like a curse? In effect, it will be a second Singularity - even steeper than the first one - after which nothing will ever be the same... Then I saw it by the entryway. A soft gleam, almost as faint as a pict, but in a color that seemed to stroke shivers in my spine. In my soul. Someone had left it there for me. As I bent to pick it up, I recognized the shape, the texture. A stone. It shone with a lambience of urgency. (not a glowing blue/green marble, as I usually remember) cf Digital Philosophy

Joel Monegro explores Deep Web Market-s, esp in terms of their anonymous Reputation Management. There’s a lot to learn from these platforms as we continue to think about how the Block Chain and other new technologies might impact traditional business models. For example, marketplaces with cost structures that command high take rates are vulnerable to Bitcoin-driven business models with very low or non-existent transaction fees. It could be that what drives adoption of unbundled services is competition by lowering costs. (more)

non-direct expenses, costs, Side Effect

Public Event Calendar site. (more)

I fear my MacBook Pro is Dying. In the middle of a Google Chrome session, the video went haywire, froze, then the Mac started a series of 3-beeps. (more)

Typically http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darknet_(file_sharing) though other varieties at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darknet and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friend-to-friend are work considering... (more)

having enough Wealth (Money) to have Freedom from other people's Game Rule-s (more)

author, investor (more)

roughly half of humanity (Men And Women) (more)

phrase I use in talking about a Wiki support Sense Making over time

Michael Mace and a team are working on a Zekira "ConText Engine", and are seeking Crowd Funding for it on Indie Gogo. It's currently running on Mac and PC, but really aims to run as a WebApp so that it's available on your Tablet/Mobile/etc. It smells like a cross between a Desktop Search Engine/PIM and a Life Streaming tool. (more)