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 Sunday, May 19, 2002
Joe Carson summarizes what some long-time Windoze supporters are saying about OS X -- they like it. [via dive into mark] 9:16:21 AM 
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No surprise here: the British press has published a much more complete account of Dan Rather's recent BBC interview in which he condemned the U.S. media for it's abysmal performance since 9-11. It even made DayPop. A choice (and especially incisive) bit:
 The White House was to blame for its failure to provide adequate information about the war, Rather said. "There has never been an American war, small or large, in which access has been so limited as this one.
"Limiting access, limiting information to cover the backsides of those who are in charge of the war, is extremely dangerous and cannot and should not be accepted. And I am sorry to say that, up to and including the moment of this interview, that overwhelmingly it has been accepted by the American people. And the current administration revels in that, they relish that, and they take refuge in that." 
Closely related: The Guardian is maintaining what looks like a great page for coverage of Bush and Co. and post-9-11 events. 9:05:48 AM
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I'm wondering if we're seeing a new movement in social thought that emphasizes -- in sometimes radical ways -- the interconnectedness of everything in existence. Check out Linked, by Albert-László Barabási, the Emil T. Hofman Professor of Physics at the University of Notre Dame.
In Linked, Barabási, a physicist whose work has revolutionized the study of networks, traces the development of this rapidly unfolding science and introduces us to the scientists carrying out this pioneering work. These "new cartographers" are mapping networks in a wide range of scientific disciplines, proving that social networks, corporations, and cells are more similar than they are different, and providing important new insights into the interconnected world around us. This knowledge, says Barabási, can shed light on the robustness of the Internet, the spread of fads and viruses, even the future of democracy. Engaging and authoritative, Linked provides an exciting preview of the next century in science, guaranteed to be transformed by these amazing discoveries.
Although I haven't read it yet, this subject matter sounds very closely related to that of Small Pieces Loosely Joined. Both books seem to be taking the network millions of people have become familiar with as a network (the Internet) as a sort of metaphor for the way our lives work. In Weaving the Web, Tim Berners-Lee says he originally envisioned the Net as a way to connect anything with anything. That's a cool vision, but these books sound like they have an even better one: Everything already is connected -- the Web just helps us see the connections. 7:32:39 AM
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