Archive for April, 2004

Collapsing Facets of Self-Expression

Summary: You shouldn’t post anything–on weblogs, in comments, on Usenet–that you’re not comfortable with the whole world knowing about. Be anonymous in other situations. Realize that the whole model of the Internet thwarts information control, and use that awareness to your advantage.

But the information consumers also have to play by these rules of the Panopticon.

Lateblooming

Lance Arthur says: “Try everything once.” It’s good advice. Also from him: Guide to Man Grooming.

Ghost Town

Ghost Town. A photoessay by a biker in Chernobyl.
It was the fact that she’s a female biker talking about “those couple of times when “experts” tried to invent an excuse to give me a shower” that first caught my attention, but it’s actually quite moving. And powerful.
I’d like to write something like that someday.
(via kottke.)
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