Berkeley, the first city to ban Styrofoam and wood-fired pizza ovens, could become the first to enact Aristotle's ancient law of logic -- that every entity is equal to itself.

In a philosophical effort to come up with a city law that no one could ever break, conceptual artist Jonathon Keats wants Berkeley to legally acknowledge Aristotle's law, commonly expressed as A=A.

3:28:01 PM    

Who links to you?. Gary asks whether we get upset when someone we don’t approve of links to our blogs. Can’t speak for nobloggy but myself, but I don’t mind. I had a chance to test that last week, in one of those odd... [Caveat Lector]

3:20:36 PM    

As for whether or not to read Small Pieces, I'll cut to the chase: if you think you're an architect of anything vaguely Internet-related, you should read this book.

Boxes & Arrows: Small Pieces, Big Thoughts. But as a departure from Cluetrain, the book is less focused on the practicalities of business, and is more a treatise on how the Internet and all massively shared internetworked environments (for the book, conflated to the common term "the Web") are changing us as social beings. [Tomalak's Realm]

3:14:09 PM    

Just What Is Programming?. Though I don't think I'm particularly great at it, I was pretty much brought up in "the old school" of programming - editor, complier, linker. I've often argued that "HTML isn't programming" and gotten annoyed when someone refers to "programming the computer" when all I was doing was using it (working with a spreadsheet, for example, or adding a program to a PC's autoexec.bat file). Dan Bricklin's Why Johnny can't program puts a whole different perspective on things, and helps me understand where these other folks are coming from. Good job. [Steven's Weblog]

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