— Kanan Makiya, What was the moral alternative to removing Saddam Hussein? - By Kanan Makiya - Slate Magazine ¶“I know that I got many things wrong in the run-up to the 2003 war, but, in spite of everything, I still do not know how to regret wanting to knock down the walls of the great concentration camp that was Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.”
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— Larry McMurtry, Leaving Cheyenne ¶“A woman’s love is like the morning dew. It’s as apt to land on a horse turd as it is a rose.”
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— Steve Yegge, Stevey's Blog Rants: Portrait of a N00b ¶“Haskell, OCaml and their ilk are part of a 45-year-old static-typing movement within academia to try to force people to model everything. Programmers hate that. These languages will never, ever enjoy any substantial commercial success, for the exact same reason the Semantic Web is a failure. You can’t force people to provide metadata for everything they do. They’ll hate you.”
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— Paul Smith, About our maps / The EveryBlock Blog ¶“With Google Maps or any other web-based mapping service, we’d be limited to the color palette, typeface, and other design elements that service’s designers chose. While those maps can be handsome products, their choices aren’t our choices, and don’t mesh well with our site’s aesthetics. Additionally, maps are fundamentally layered — eg., a parks layer sits on top of a streets layer, which sits on top of a cities layer, and on down. Maps can be composed of many such layers, up to a dozen or more. The maps from Google Maps, however, don’t let us choose which layers we receive. They are “collapsed” down into a single image, one that is well-designed for general purpose, but one that includes layers we’re not interested in displaying. Map aesthetics are no small thing. With all the Google Maps mashups out there, we used our own platform to stand apart, for visual distinction.”
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— Monkshovel, World Freedom Atlas - StumbleUpon ¶“A “Euro-centric socialist”( from greenchair’s review ) statement if you look at it closely. It is obviously written and programed by liberal minded euro-trash…and as always pointedly anti-American in some shape or form!”
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— Golan Levin, et. al., THE SECRET LIVES OF NUMBERS ¶“Macintosh-based visitors may experience problems running the applet in Netscape Navigator. We recommend that you download the latest version of the Macintosh Runtime for Java (MRJ), which is available here for MacOS 7/8/9, or here for MacOS X. We also recommend that you run the applet from Internet Explorer 5, or (better yet) from an iCab or Omniview browser. The Macintosh Java implementation still lags behind that of the PC as of this writing; expect slower performance.”
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— Hendrik Hertzberg, Higher Standards: Comment: The New Yorker ¶“But there is a glaring discontinuity between the lived experience of Americans and the drug policies of their governments. Nearly a hundred million of us—forty per cent of the adult population, including pillars of the nation’s political, financial, academic, and media élites—have smoked (and, therefore, possessed) marijuana at some point, thereby committing an offense that, with a bit of bad luck, could have resulted in humiliation, the loss of benefits such as college loans and scholarships, or worse. More than forty thousand people are in jail for marijuana offenses, and some seven hundred thousand are arrested annually merely for possession.”
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— BIKESNOBNYC, Bike Snob NYC: Haulin' Ass (and some furniture): Moving by Bike ¶“That’s right, Fascist war machine: the forces of gentrification no longer need your fossil fuels to power their relentless march across Brooklyn. When this woman was priced out of her Fort Greene aparment and decided to price someone else out of an apartment in neighboring Crown Heights, she didn’t just gas up a U-Haul. Instead, she assembled some friends who also wanted attention and did the whole thing by bike.”
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— William F. Buckley Jr., William F. Buckley Jr. on Marijuana on National Review Online ¶“The laws aren’t exactly indefensible, because practically nothing is, and the thunderers who tell us to stay the course can always find one man or woman who, having taken marijuana, moved on to severe mental disorder. But that argument, to quote myself, is on the order of saying that every rapist began by masturbating. General rules based on individual victims are unwise. And although there is a perfectly respectable case against using marijuana, the penalties imposed on those who reject that case, or who give way to weakness of resolution, are very difficult to defend. If all our laws were paradigmatic, imagine what we would do to anyone caught lighting a cigarette, or drinking a beer. Or — exulting in life in the paradigm — committing adultery. Send them all to Guantanamo? ”
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— William "Wild Bill" Bunge, indiemaps.com/blog | the notebook of cartographer zachary forest johnson. 100. ¶“To the children, from their geographers”
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— Arthur Robinson, indiemaps.com | the web site of cartographer zachary forest johnson ¶“The act of mapping was as profound as the invention of a number system. The use of a reduced, substitute space for that of reality, even when both can be seen, is an impressive act in itself; but the really awesome event was the similar representation of distant, out of sight, features. The combination of the reduction of reality and the construction of an analogical space is an attainment in abstract thinking of a very high order indeed, for it enables one to discover structures that would remain unknown if not mapped.”