Lafayette Street in NYC Two-Color Patinated Bronze Chess Set by Pierre Cardin
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Tim O’Reilly:
One of the points I’ve made repeatedly about Web 2.0 is that it is the design of systems that get better the more people use them, and that over time, such systems have a natural tendency towards monopoly.
And so we’ve grown used to a world with one dominant search engine, one dominant online encyclopedia, one dominant online retailer, one dominant auction site, one dominant online classified site, and we’ve been readying ourselves for one dominant social network.
But what happens when a company with one of these natural monopolies uses it to gain dominance in other, adjacent areas?
This is truly scary, and it’s one reason why I’m inherently skeptical of Google and other extremely large web companies.
I’m less skeptical than I am excited to see the opportunities this creates. A single dominant anything in our capitalist society has not stood alone for long. And exeptions to this still lead to something better, eventually.
In recent years, I’ve become increasingly concerned about my scatterbrained-ness. I find it hard to focus on a single task for a prolonged period of time: for example, I find it takes me far longer to get through a book, or even read a short passage of text, than it ever used to. I don’t listen to the other person when I’m having a conversation – or rather, I try to listen, but the information somehow always seems to pass through my brain without being stored anywhere. I’m not really present in the moment. My brain gets distracted very easily.
Concerta, Adderall, the world’s most intelligent & understanding “Type A” wife, and the responsibilities & infinite rewards of parenthood. Take together, in prescribed dosages. And never, never, never give up.
“ I am a big believer in technology and I’m a big believer in openness when it comes to the flow of information. I think that the more freely information flows, the stronger the society becomes, because then citizens of countries around the world can hold their own governments accountable. They can begin to think for themselves. That generates new ideas. It encourages creativity. And so I’ve always been a strong supporter of open Internet use. I’m a big supporter of non-censorship. This is part of the tradition of the United States that I discussed before, and I recognize that different countries have different traditions. I can tell you that in the United States, the fact that we have free Internet — or unrestricted Internet access — is a source of strength, and I think should be encouraged.’ ”
It’s been bothering me for years that I didn’t know of an unobtrusive character that’ll do the job, so I finally took a few minutes to suss it out.
It’s⌥0. (That’s Option+Zero.)
So I’m gonna let my geek flag fly for a moment here: The alternatives (Ω, , and even π) have always been too conspicuous for me. And I feel like I just won ten bucks on a Powerball ticket.
Though chickens have been around for thousands of years, dinosaurs were laying eggs millions of years prior. So technically, eggs were around well before chickens.
Asked by reality-uncheck.
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Really nice set of GUI icons built into a font. Easy to customize and put the pieces together to make your own variations.
