Lucky enough to have our conversation here joined by none other than renowned cognitive scientist, Marvin Minksy* {MIT page, Google directory, Wikipedia.}
*(Or someone posing as him, I suppose!)

thats partly why you need identity management systems (see also: show me the tokens)

See Kevin’s post about Google obviously censoring real search terms from his site. How can a site owner gauge whether or not this is happening to their website and what methods can be used to circumvent it?
What alternate (technical) explanations could exist for this, as opposed to outright censorship?
Two mission critical items:

Begin backing up […]

It occurs to me that we sometimes use the depth of our pain or sadness as proof of our love.
“If I didn’t care, then it wouldn’t hurt,” does not therefore mean that suffering is a reliable barometer of Love’s presence.

trying to learn how to live with caritas and no illusions about romantic love

An Indian website is offering the equivalent of what I was describing as Tim Boucher Dollars.
Social Money program is an innovation by Indyarocks where the members will be rewarded for their day to day interaction with friends and family and it is also a way to reward user generated content (UGC).
As a member of […]

Innovative yet retarded:
The Creditz Digital Currency System is a new alternative currency that transforms reward points, frequent flyer miles, loyalty points and other non-cash currencies into a digital currency, which will be used the same as cash at participating national retailers, merchants, vendors and manufacturers.
Consumers will earn Creditz currency when they buy products wherever […]

Amy and I are in the process of scheduling a phone meeting to talk about community currencies. Here is her blog and a great article by her on local currency. Choice quotes from that:
Revolutions happen when a group of people decide that the system they operate within no longer shares the same values they do […]

Reason #567 why Wikipedia is better than Google:
Wikipedia itself is highly politicized around the control of its content, but that process is mostly transparent: you get to see when it was changed, sometimes who changed it, and talk about why.
Whereas you don’t know who or what is behind information being presented to you from Google. […]

Have you ever been out with a group of friends discussing a particular subject matter and then called someone who was not present in order to retrieve some bit of trivia? I don’t have a cell phone anymore, but I see people do this all the time.
I like it because it’s a totally natural […]

When you go to someone else’s house to visit, bring a gift. Then, when they come visit you, they’ll bring a gift. Creating this spirit of “habitual giving” is a surefire remedy for the scarcity blues. Scarcity is just one way of thinking about your possessions. Abundance is another way of thinking - which happens […]

From an interview with Minksy:
Pleasure, like pain, is thought of as being a sort of simple, absolute, innate, basic thing, but as far as I can see, pleasure is a piece of machinery for turning off various parts of the brain. It’s like sleep. I suspect that pleasure is mainly used to turn off parts […]

Google’s brand is entering a potentially lethal tailspin stage. Why? Because people are waking up to the fact that they are no longer a search company. They are an advertising company.
They do not bring you the best results. They bring you the best results which do not conflict with their advertising plans.
Therefore their […]

Why did this word fall out of common usage in American English? It’s beautiful and to me explains what “state” (of mind) a government should rightfully be operating within.
The English noun commonwealth dates originally from the fifteenth century. The original phrase “common wealth” or “the common weal” comes from the old meaning of “wealth” […]

Organized religion is nothing more than the organization of people together into a common cause on behalf of something they believe to be greater than them.
{See also: commonwealth, Right to Free Assembly.}

that word commonwealth is awesome!

“The initials ‘K-Y‘ are not known to represent any words — they were described by their originator as “arbitrary letters” — but are retained for their brand-identity.”

she dont use jelly

Alarms at doors in stores induce a feeling of remorseless guilt in the hearts of the empty-handed. Bandits just walk on through.

bandits just do what you and i say we dont want to

Old friends together again. {see tags}

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