My Annotated Interface Culture

"The Interface Culture by Neal Stephenson [Annotated]"

I’ve long appreciated Neal Stephenson’s brilliant essay on culture. It is part of a longer essay entitled In The Beginning Was The Command Line. That essay is aimed principally at computerists whereas I believe The Interface Culture section should have a much wider audience. But pointing people to the larger essay and then telling them to do a text search for a particular section is tedious. Some years ago for my own edification I outlined it.

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The Maine Lighthouse Corporation

Maine Lighthouse is working to establish a long-term residential treatment program, called a Therapeutic Community (TC), to treat addiction and provide ongoing support towards productive, law-abiding, drug and alcohol free lives.

The Maine Lighthouse Corporation
Google "Maine Lighthouse Corporation"

Another flickr test

del.icio.us test

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The Pirate Kingdom - New York Times - Pat Choate - 5/12/05 "The United States should bring an intellectual property case against China at the W.T.O. Then, if China still won't honor its intellectual property obligations, President Bush and Congress will need to reconsider this country's trade relations with China

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Invasion Of The Brain Snatchers A review of HOT PROPERTY - The Stealing of Ideas in an Age of Globalization By Pat Choate

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WNYC - Reading Room: Hot Property -The Stealing of Ideas in an Age of Globalization Hamilton’s message to potential immigrants was loud and clear: bring your nation’s industrial secrets to America, gain citizenship, get a patent, be honored, and become wealthy.

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Copyright Strikes Back | Linux Journal "So she publishes the document on her web site. After all, there's no other way, now that print media are no longer available. Within an hour, the document's gone--and so is her Web site. Why? The minute the company found out about the document's publicat

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The Huffington Post | The Blog - Hilary Rosen - Steve Jobs, Let my Music Go Shaun invents Napster. Hillary shuts it down. Steve comes up with a viable business odel based on selling devices. Hillary complains.... (The title reference to a spiritual in the public domain is a nice touch)

RSS

Shape and search and Google alerts are very much on my mind these days, what with Ursula Goodenough on Shape & Meaning. I'm seeing Goolge sitting there and pulling meme molecules off of the web that fit the receptor spots I've set up as alerts.

flickr test page

Volkswriter & Word

Let's try this again. My last attempt crashed.

Volkswriter was an early word processor for the PC. I may have used it. I do remember using a BASIC word proocessor published in (most likely) either PC Magazine or PC World. The blog/aggragator/personal publishing/social software is much like it was then only time ten or a hundred - enourmous creativity and lots of choices.

Will a Word arise out of this?

frassle has lots of things I like but for now it is so slow as to be unusable.

lord and sovereign

As of now, I am the only member of the Brookline i-neighborhood, and thus am, at last, lord and sovereign.

Brookline i-neighborhood

I was struck by how much this is religious language. It's from a non-religious person. But it makes me think of how much we anthropomorphize God. We make the ineffible something we know and understand. How much of this comes from and is justified by our being made "in God's image"?

A9

Here's an interesting search link:

http://a9.com/universal%20syntax%20xml

Usborne Computer Books

Easy Design on Your Computer: Using Only Microsoft Word 2000 or Microsoft Office 2000 (Software Guides)

Easy Design on Your Computer Word 97: Using Only Microsoft Word 97 or Microsoft Office 97 (Software Guides)