Adactio: Links
An excellent interview! From deleted government records to disappearing music, our digital culture can be erased overnight. The Internet Archive’s Mark Graham and Chris Freeland explain what it will take to save it. adactio.com/links/22660
Isaac Asimov
The last question was asked for the first time, half in jest, on May 21, 2061, at a time when humanity first stepped into the light. The question came about as a result of a five-dollar bet over highballs, and it happened this way: Alexander Adell and Bertram Lupov were two of the faithful...
Michael Crichton
Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often,...
Unknown
The man who is sitting on top of the popular music world is shown above, cooling his ascetic frame in the California canyon he calls home. He is Eden Ahbez, a bearded, barefoot student of yoga who has performed the most unlikely of all musical feats-writing America's No. 1 hit tune on his first...
John Steinbeck
Now let me give you the benefit of my experience in facing 400 pages of blank stock—the appalling stuff that must be filled. I know that no one really wants the benefit of anyone's experience which is probably why it is so freely offered. But the following are some of the things I have had to do...
Liraz Siri
They're heeeere … Friday, our Japanese participants discover that a computer on their company network has been cracked into, one very secure Linux box running only SSH and Apache 1.3.4. Now this would definitely send a chill up your spine if you knew just how fanatic our friends are when it comes...
Charles Bukowski
Your life is your lifedon't let it be clubbed into dank submission.Be on the watch.There are ways out.There is a light somewhere.It may not be much light but it beats the darkness.Be on the watch.The gods will offer you chances.Know them.Take them.You can't beat death but you can beat death in...