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devinjon | 2 years ago | on: Brutalist Websites

Tech minimalists and hipsters. The website itself is shockingly heavy, though, with hi res images resized down to thumbnails. Yuck.

devinjon | 2 years ago | on: Internet Sacred Text Archive

Okay, Heraclitus might be a stretch, I'll give you that. But I do recommend giving the Tao Te Ching a read with Whitehead in mind. :)

devinjon | 2 years ago | on: Internet Sacred Text Archive

Well, the new-age has swallowed quantum woo whole. It is a kind of religion or attempt at modern myth making, I suppose. More respectably, a number of eminent physicists have fallen hard for philosophical Hinduism and or certain strands of Buddhism. Bohr, Schrodinger, Heisenberg, and Bohm among them.

devinjon | 2 years ago | on: Rethinking the Luddites

At times, the destruction was also quite utilitarian. For example, if you destroyed a piece of agricultural equipment, and it took three months to get another one up from London, you and your chums had work for the season. That's an entirely rational course of action (though not necessarily the most effective or moral one).

devinjon | 2 years ago | on: Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website

One of my favourites so far.

https://ashidakim.com/

The art of ninja as expounded upon by a master ninja. I mean, my brain says it's a joke, but it's so extensive and has books for sale.

The site is filled with gems, like this piece of advice on tailoring your training: "If I were in the Ring ... I'd have to regulate my diet and do a lot of running for stamina. When I'm a bouncer, I practice drinking and smoking."

Sound.

devinjon | 2 years ago | on: DiaryLand is still going?

Maybe my typo in the header? Regardless, it's fun to see people still plugging away at their little journals.

devinjon | 2 years ago | on: I Am Leaving

Sure. The point was more about the many small frictions that may or may not exist in any given friendship, with a lack of messaging capacity being no more egregious than any other.

Demanding all your friends switch or kill their messaging apps is quite another matter, and an eccentric one at that.

devinjon | 2 years ago | on: I Am Leaving

Probably true. Still, perceptions change over time. Not too long ago vegetarianism (never mind veganism!) was widely seen as an irrational fringe position.

Similarly, I live sans messaging for the simple reason that I never upgraded to a smartphone. In the 2000s this solicited reactions of amazed befuddlement and surprise, occasionally mirth. Nowadays, in my experience, most people intuitively understand the decision.

devinjon | 2 years ago | on: I Am Leaving

In my view, and as someone who's never used instant messaging, it should be a small accommodation to make for a friendship. In the same way that I would be happy to provide a vegetarian option at a dinner.

devinjon | 2 years ago | on: Review of the original Whole Earth Catalog [video]

Yeah, if memory serves, the reviewer in this case was 'housing' editor at Whole Earth. At the time he was into geodesic domes and Buckminster Fuller, a worldview and technology he would shortly disavow.

The reviewer's blog is worth a look if you're up for a bit of architectural hippydom. [1]

As for Gen X. Well, My Morning Jack apparently did an album inspired by the Whole Earth Catalog. [2]

[1] https://www.lloydkahn.com/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Distortion

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