By Mike Langberg
Mercury News
In a few years, we’ll all own a fireproof black box containing a big hard drive. Tucked away in a closet, we’ll never think about the box once it’s installed.”
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Just too funny.
I just got done with my second English course. One of the things that stood out to me, when reading my fellow-students’ writing. Few of them knew how to use the spell-check, and most of them thought that the spelling “there” was the correct way to spell “their.”
“Since about ten years Theo Jansen is occupied with the making of a new nature. Not pollen or seeds but plastic yellow tubes are used as the basic matierial of this new nature. He makes skeletons which are able to walk on the wind. Eventualy he wants to put these animals out in herds on the beaches, so they will live their own lives.”
I don’t know about “living their own lives,” but those are some amazing automatons.
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Squashed Philosophers- Condensed Plato Aristotle Augustine Descartes Hume Marx Freud Copernicus Hobbes Sartre Ayer Sade Wittgenstein Einstein: “Glyn Hughes’
Squashed Philosophers
The books which defined the way The West thinks now
Condensed and abridged to keep the substance, the style and the quotes, but ditching all that irritating verbiage”