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Why I’m Glad Player Piano is a Work of Fiction

July 18, 2008

A while back, I read Kurt Vonnegut’s Player Piano, and had honestly meant to write a critique/review of the novel. Time passed, and the draft got lost along the way somewhere. The idea was revived when I was thinking last night about how all of our productivity is wasted.
My first impression was that Piano is [...]

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…orange

June 24, 2008

From the backyard

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What is an “Earthship”?

February 19, 2008

Last night I watched an episode of Invention Nation, a show I’d kind of been meaning to watch for some time. I’m glad I tuned, because the episode was about Earthships, which are basically these quasi-futuristic, quasi-primitive houses which are designed to be self-sustainable. They’re built out of old tires and bottles and stuff, which [...]

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Monday Quickies

January 2, 2008

With a tip o’ the hat to Andrew Sullivan, I came across a Wired article discussing new data suggesting the people of the United States are among the most surveilled by their government the world over, joining notable Big Brother States China, Russia:
In terms of statutory protections and privacy enforcement, the US is the [...]

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