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Monthly Archives: June 2013
Why permaculture needs to expand systems thinking to handle natural disasters
The Essence of the Thing Elsewhere
The PiY Revolution. A World of Abundance.
Matrix of identities of minority rule
Contr’un: The Libertarian Labyrinth and the Antinomies of Anarchy
Re-Awakening Our Relationships: The Land Under Our Feet
Fuck Peer Review
Blog all dog-eared Unpages: Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet by Andrew Blum
I really enjoyed Andrew’s book. I thought I knew about the structure (and structures) of the Internet, but this is is a detailed, critical and fun illumination which quickly proved me mistaken. It’s also a travel book, about an unreal place that spans/permeates real places, lives, spaces. And a wonderful one at that. Highly recommended.
(My emboldening below)
Everything you do online travels through a tube. Inside those tubes (by and large) are glass fibers. Inside those fibers is light. Encoded in that light is, increasingly, us. [Location 94]
The Internet is everywhere; the Internet is nowhere. But indubitably, as invisible as the logical might seem, its physical counterpart is always there. [Location 276]
TeleGeography in Washington was asking a computer science department in Denmark to show how it was connected to a university in Poland. It was like a spotlight in Scandinavia shining on twenty-five hundred different places around…
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