Woe be to him who tries to isolate one department of knowledge from the rest. All science is one: language, literature and history, physics, mathematics and philosophy; subjects which seem the most remote from one another are in reality connected, or rather they all form a single system.

aaronwhite:

mattlanger:

obsessivecompulsive:

Power will soon belong to those who can master a variety of expressive human-machine interactions.

“As the century goes on, those who don’t program — who can’t bend their increasingly sophisticated computers, machines, cars, and homes to their wills and needs — will, I predict, be increasingly left behind. Parents and teachers often disrespect today’s young people for being less than literate in the old reading-and-writing sense. But in turn, these young citizens of the future have no respect for adults who can’t program a DVD player, a mobile phone, a computer, or anything else. Today’s kids already see their parents and teachers as the illiterate ones.”

Interesting, but on a theoretical level I find it deeply disturbing.

This posits a false (and dangerous) antinomy in attempting to situate modes of literacy in the language of parallax.

“Classical” and “twenty-first-century” literacy are not mutually exclusive. If that were the case we would have given up on art a long time ago.

I don’t think this is putting a value ordering on ‘modern’ vs ‘classical’ literacy, just highlighting the importance of technical literacy in and of itself, and capturing the very real feeling the techno-savvy have when observing those who are not.

Of course, I also believe that we can’t forge ahead without universally raising the usability-bar. If for nothing else, I’ve enjoyed web 2.0’s effect of having highlighted, for this generation, the importance of easy, understandable systems.

Your second point there says it all.

But seeing the mention of power and its purported “ownership” made me throw up a little bit in my mouth.

Seeing that mention framed in terms of potentially exclusive languages, literacies, and points of access made me throw up out of my mouth.

The entire architecture of the web has the spirit of multiplicities pulsing through all its tubes. The web is a club from which no one should be excluded.

Accessibility not exclusivity.

obsessivecompulsive:

Power will soon belong to those who can master a variety of expressive human-machine interactions.

“As the century goes on, those who don’t program — who can’t bend their increasingly sophisticated computers, machines, cars, and homes to their wills and needs — will, I predict, be increasingly left behind. Parents and teachers often disrespect today’s young people for being less than literate in the old reading-and-writing sense. But in turn, these young citizens of the future have no respect for adults who can’t program a DVD player, a mobile phone, a computer, or anything else. Today’s kids already see their parents and teachers as the illiterate ones.”

Interesting, but on a theoretical level I find it deeply disturbing.

This posits a false (and dangerous) antinomy in attempting to situate modes of literacy in the language of parallax.

“Classical” and “twenty-first-century” literacy are not mutually exclusive.  If that were the case we would have given up on art a long time ago.

Pavement — Same Way of Saying (Crooked Rain Crooked Rain outtake)

“Plugs without a socket, there’s no moon without a rocket…”

Thanks to Jamie’s very kind compliments a lot of people are seeing this blog and its theme for the first time today. So I wanted to upload this song since as far as I’m concerned the blog, its theme, and this song are inseparable.

Those lyrics inspire me because in 1962 someone thought we should go to the moon. Seven years later we did. All it took was building a rocket.

In a sense there wasn’t a moon until we built that rocket. Until we built the rocket. And there would have never been a rocket without a moon.

What united these two symbols into their intimate bond was an idea.

The 1969 moon landing is the paradigm for good ideas, and forty years later there are as many moons as there are ideas.

Our task is to build the rockets.

matt langer: OH MY GOD
matt langer: we must make the localized french version.
matt langer: it would be the ultimate irony
matt langer: with a url like http://fr.icantdeci.de
matt langer: our site would be sandwiched between france and germany
matt langer: just like alsace lorraine!
aaron white: hahahhahahaa
matt langer: which for two centuries
matt langer: no one could decide if it was france's or germany's!
matt langer: !%!@#!!@
aaron white: hahaha

New Girl Talk album

As quandaries go, they don’t get more unresolvable than this.

Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow.

Tumblr Poll: Which Pie Should I Make?

biteofpythias:

dazzlingdelta:

edatrix:

fareastmeetswildwest:

If you were going to a 4th of July BBQ in Connecticut, would you rather eat:

Berry Streusel Pie or S’more Pie?

why or? my answer to berry or s’more is Yes…

S’more Pie beating Berry Streusel 57-43…