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from http://twitpic.com/54k4 (twitter from Golden Phoenix) Smari said, on sight, “Hahahahaha New Headquarters?”

I can’t put it into words, but something happened today, stepped over some kind of threshold, hit critical mass. Now it goes boom, this thing we’ve been building - a perspective, a view on life, a housing technology, a science of infrastructure… a plan to fix the world, which is not broken. If you never read it, [...]

As I look at all these rocket scientists struggling to navigate the horrific waters of patent law and worst practices, I’m wondering… why has the Sacred Oath gone out of fashion? Like, really, what this comes down to is three principles which really ought to be sworn in blood by anybody doing this kind of work. 1> [...]

Dr. Horrible is a really, really perfectly nerdy web TV show by the brains behind Buffy and Firefly/Serenity. For reasons that I’m foolishly going to try to explain, it hit me like a bag of hammers. Here’s Dr. Horrible’s problem. He wants the world to be a better place, and he’s willing to kill people to [...]

“you will live and die on this farm, and you will never go hungry. but your kids are going to the stars.”