http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/12/18/how-to-build-internet-alternatives/ public domain playground. friendly entities welcome. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:04:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/12/18/how-to-build-internet-alternatives/comment-page-1/#comment-125283 A little bird told me (they tell me a lot of things) - [tmbchr]â„¢ Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:40:16 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/12/18/how-to-build-internet-alternatives/#comment-125283 [...] I like that part in The Hobbit where the one dude, it turns out, can understand the language of birds. I believe this happens in the legend of Sigurd as well, where he gets bathed in the dragonsblood and suddenly can understand the language of nature. Whether or not this points to some hidden esoteric truth (and it well may), it strikes me that thinking about this sort of thing provides an interesting backdrop against the subject of technology facilitating communication, and the restriction of same. [...] [...] I like that part in The Hobbit where the one dude, it turns out, can understand the language of birds. I believe this happens in the legend of Sigurd as well, where he gets bathed in the dragonsblood and suddenly can understand the language of nature. Whether or not this points to some hidden esoteric truth (and it well may), it strikes me that thinking about this sort of thing provides an interesting backdrop against the subject of technology facilitating communication, and the restriction of same. [...]

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