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Dew
Lighthouse for sale: The nostalgia of obsolete public property - Heather Hansman, Reform
Mist
Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy - New York Times (mirror)
Fog
The new dotcom bubble is here: it's called online advertising - The Correspondent
From what I'm reading
- There is an “idea” boat that is an emotion, and because the emotion is so strong it is probable that no other tool is made with so much honesty as a boat. Bad boats are built, surely, but not many of them. It can be argued that a bad boat cannot survive tide and wave and hence is not worth building, but the same might be said of a bad automobile on a rough road. Apparently the builder of a boat acts under a compulsion greater than himself. Ribs are strong by definition and feeling. Keels are sound, planking truly chosen and set. A man builds the best of himself into a boat—builds many of the unconscious memories of his ancestors.
The Log from the Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck
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