I can’t decide whether or not I like Clay Shirky. He can be either inspiring or insane, but he is always an idealist. His most recent brain diarrhea is charmingly titled “Cognitive Surplus”, in which he muses that all the tens of millions of people watching TV right now represent a miraculous amount of untapped brainpower. It is an alluring concept, and people often use Wikipedia as an example of what this so-called Cognitive Surplus can accomplish. I dare to disagree.
Cognitive Surplus, or Clay Shirky’s desperate hunger for relevance (and book sales)
August 8th, 2010
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Affiliate whoring: T-Shirt Hell!
August 4th, 2010
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I’ve posted a handful of my favorite t-shirts from T-Shirt Hell. They are awesome, not unlike myself. I make a few bucks off every shirt sold so feel free to be a consumer whore and buy the whole damn store. I wear the fuck outta mine!
OCD Multitasking
July 24th, 2010
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It’s rant time and I just realized something: for a guy with a beefy PC and multiple displays, I spend a lot of time with just one window open. Billions of CPU cycles and memory cells are sitting idle. Only one of my LCDs is even powered on right now. Am I being wasteful, or merely efficient ?
Seth Godin says Goodbye to the office
July 5th, 2010
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I usually don’t pay too much attention to Seth Godin, he seems to live in a very different bubble than I, but for once I agree with him. The office is dead. In these constantly connected times, I don’t think there is much equity left in the tradition of commuting to the downtown core, to do the same work you could have done at home or anywhere else with internet access.
Why I support piracy
July 3rd, 2010
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I, Billco, am a strong supporter of piracy; I think it’s a great thing. I say this, despite being a software developer, amateur musician and huge music/movie buff. It doesn’t make any sense, right ?
Thoughts on religion
June 26th, 2010
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It’s no secret that I’m a bit of an asshole – not a mean guy, a nice guy but an asshole. I speak my mind, all the time, and those who don’t like it can go fuck a moose. One of my favourite scratching posts is religion. When people ask what my religion is, I say “science”. My view is quite simple: I’m a very firm agnostic, and I think any other stance is pure lunacy, theism and atheism alike.
SEO : Billco Style!
June 23rd, 2010
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A huge portion of the blogosphere out there is dedicated to SEO : Search Engine Optimization, aka tweaking your site to get better ranking on Google and friends. Well here’s the thing, most of them regurgigate the same half-truths, very few people really know what works and what doesn’t, and frankly the bulk of it is just common sense. The sad reality is that common sense ain’t so common, and most people on the internet are, by virtue of the bell curve, terminally stupid. Here’s my short and sweet take on SEO.
Fixing money
June 22nd, 2010
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Yesterday, my brotha’ from anotha’ planet BitBurn posted a link to “Money as Debt“, an informational film on the origins of fractional reserve banking. I had watched that video a while ago, and while I knew instinctively that the banking system was a fraud, that film fleshed out my suspicions and probably introduced me to the hobby of conspiracy theories. If you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend it and the content is quite accessible to just about anyone with a functioning brain.
I watched it again last night, and it stirred up the same old questions in my head: If the money system is so fundamentally broken, how do we go about fixing it ? The heart of the problem with modern banking consists of two “leaps of faith”: fractional reserve, which is the practice of lending out much more money than is actually in the vault, and interest paid on loans.
English, motherfucker, do you speak it ?
June 20th, 2010
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