From Bruce Sterling’s “Viridian Note 00459: Emerging Technology 2006” (The Viridian Design Movement: March 2006):
Here’s another contender from Julian Bleecker …
“Blogjects” – objects which emit data about their use.
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Posted on August 20th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Bruce Sterling’s “Viridian Note 00459: Emerging Technology 2006” (The Viridian Design Movement: March 2006):
Here we’ve got the canonical Tim O’Reilly definition of Web 2.0:
“Web 2.0 is the network as platform, spanning all connected devices; Web 2.0 applications are those that make the most of the intrinsic advantages of that platform: delivering software as a [...]
Posted on August 20th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Wikipedia’s “Creative destruction” (13 July 2006):
Creative destruction, introduced by the economist Joseph Schumpeter, describes the process of industrial transformation that accompanies radical innovation. In Schumpeter’s vision of capitalism, innovative entry by entrepreneurs was the force that sustained long-term economic growth, even as it destroyed the value of established companies that enjoyed some degree of [...]
Posted on August 2nd, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Tim Bray’s “On Search: Squirmy Words” (29 June 2003):
First of all, the words that have the most variation in meaning and the most collisions with other words are the common ones. In the Oxford English Dictionary, the three words with the longest entries (i.e. largest number of meanings) are “set,†“run,†and “get.â€Â
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Posted on July 31st, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Cait Murphy’s “Secrets of greatness: How I work” (Fortune: 16 March 2006):
Carlos Ghosn, CEO of Renault (France) and Nissan (Japan):
Stress builds up when you know there is a problem but you do not clearly see it, and you do not have a solution.
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Posted on July 11th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Tim Bray’s “On the Goodness of Unicode” (6 April 2003):
Unicode proper is a consortium of technology vendors that, many years ago in a flash of intelligence and public-spiritedness, decided to unify their work with that going on at the ISO. Thus, while there are officially two standards you should care about, Unicode and ISO [...]
Posted on July 6th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Wikipedia’s “Fascism” (5 July 2006):
Fascism is a radical totalitarian political philosophy that combines elements of corporatism, authoritarianism, extreme nationalism, militarism, anti-rationalism, anti-anarchism, anti-communism and anti-liberalism. …
A recent definition that has attracted much favorable comment is that by Robert O. Paxton:
“Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with [...]
Posted on July 5th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Ann Harrison’s Onion Routing Averts Prying Eyes (Wired News: 5 August 2004):
Computer programmers are modifying a communications system, originally developed by the U.S. Naval Research Lab, to help Internet users surf the Web anonymously and shield their online activities from corporate or government eyes.
The system is based on a concept called onion routing. It [...]
Posted on June 16th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Samuel T. King, Peter M. Chen, Yi-Min Wang, Chad Verbowski, Helen J. Wang, & Jacob R. Lorch’s “SubVirt: Implementing malware with virtual machines
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A virtual-machine monitor (VMM) manages the resources of the underlying hardware and provides an abstraction of one or more virtual machines [20]. Each virtual machine can run a complete [...]
Posted on June 13th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Andrés Duany’s “Classic Urbanism“:
From time to time there appears a concept of exceptional longevity. In architecture, the pre-eminent instance is the Vitruvian triad of Comoditas, Utilitas, e Venustas. This Roman epigram was propelled into immortality by Lord Burlington’s felicitous translation as Commodity, Firmness and Delight.
It has thus passed down the centuries and remains authoritative, [...]
Posted on June 11th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From “Good Architecture“:
This has a similarity to the ISO 9126 definition of software quality:
Portability
Efficiency
Reliability
Functionality
Usability
Maintainability
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Posted on June 11th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From “Good Architecture“:
In ‘building architecture’, for comparison, we have the 3 classic Vitruvian qualities to which ‘GoodArchitecture’ aspires:
‘Firmitas, Utilitas and Venustas’ (Marcus Vitruvius Pollio ‘The Ten Books of Architecture’ 1st C AD).
These qualities may be translated as: ‘Technology, Function and Form’ (C St J Wilson ‘ArchitecturalReflections?; Studies in the Philosophy and Practice of Architecture’ 1992 [...]
Posted on June 11th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Bruce Schneier’s “Phishing“:
Phishing, for those of you who have been away from the Internet for the past few years, is when an attacker sends you an e-mail falsely claiming to be a legitimate business in order to trick you into giving away your account info — passwords, mostly. When this is done by hacking [...]
Posted on April 28th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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lu·cu·bra·tion, n.
1. Laborious study or meditation.
2. Writing produced by laborious effort or study, especially pedantic or pretentious writing. Often used in the plural.
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Posted on April 18th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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Cunctative: Cunc’ta*tive, a. Slow; tardy; dilatory; causing delay.
Cunctator: Cunc*ta’tor, n. [L., lit., a delayer; -- applied as a surname to Q. Fabius Maximus.] One who delays or lingers.
From Wikipedia’s “Fabius Maximus“:
Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus (c. 275 BC-203 BC), called Cunctator (the Delayer), was a Roman politician and soldier, born in Rome around 275 BC and [...]
Posted on April 16th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Brian Hayes’ “The Post-OOP Paradigm“:
Christopher Alexander [a bricks-and-steel architect] is known for the enigmatic thesis that well-designed buildings and towns must have “the quality without a name.” He explains: “The fact that this quality cannot be named does not mean that it is vague or imprecise. It is impossible to name because it is [...]
Posted on April 4th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Brian Hayes’ “The Post-OOP Paradigm“:
The architects of the earliest computer systems gave little thought to software. (The very word was still a decade in the future.) Building the machine itself was the serious intellectual challenge; converting mathematical formulas into program statements looked like a routine clerical task. The awful truth came out soon [...]
Posted on April 4th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From “Relativity, Uncertainty, Incompleteness and Undecidability“:
In this article four fundamental principles are presented: relativity, uncertainty, incompleteness and undecidability. They were studied by, respectively, Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg, Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing. …
Relativity says that there is no privileged, “objective” viewpoint for certain observations. … Now, if things move relative to each other, then obviously [...]
Posted on March 29th, 2006 by Scott Granneman
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From Tim O’Reilly’s “Lessons from open source software development”, Communications of the ACM 41 (4): 33-7:
Open source is a term that has recently gained currency as a way to describe the tradition of open standards, shared source code, and collaborative development behind software such as the Linux and FreeBSD operating systems, the Apache Web server, [...]
Posted on November 29th, 2005 by Scott Granneman
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From Salon:
Robert O. Paxton, a former professor of social sciences at Columbia University and longtime historian of the political movement, sets out to formulate a working definition in his new book, The Anatomy of Fascism. … Only at the end does Paxton reveal what he’s settled on as an acceptable definition. Here it is:
“… a [...]
Posted on November 29th, 2005 by Scott Granneman
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