Over at Neddie's, in the comments, no less, I come across this:

joel hanes said...

What most companies think of as branding,
we users think of as wasting our time
and maybe as insulting our intelligence.
David Weinberger
"Get Over It!"
_Darwin_Magazine_, March 2001

And I think to myself,...

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Over at the other place I've written about the history of European Union legislation on agricultural biodiversity and on a new draft that they think will put matters right. I don't think it will, and I'm saddened to be unable to find any reports of the discussions on the draft that were to have...

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Start: 95.4 Last week: 89.8 This week: 88.7
Tuesday 27 February: Thursday last I weighed 89.0. The following morning I was 90.6. Between the two I had eaten possibly the saltiest bowl of pasta I can recall. That gave me a new insight into the part water plays in short-term fluctuations. The more...

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You can’t keep up with everything. Never has the truth of this maxim been brought home to me more forcefully than this morning, when a colleague love-bombed the entire staff with a link to The case of the disappearing teaspoons: longitudinal cohort study of the displacement of teaspoons in an Austr...

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I think I may be in love. It's a long time since I've felt this way, since I've been eager to explore the further reaches of an infatuation. And an especially long time since a piece of software had this effect on me. I'm talking about Bookends, a piece of bibliographic magic for the Mac. But let's...

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