“One of the things the Web teaches us is that everything is connected (hyperlinks) and we all should work together (standards). Too often school teaches us that everything is separate (many different ‘subjects’) and that we should all work alone.” —Aaron Swartz, April 2001. So Aaron is gone. We were friends a decade ago, and […]
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The Persian for London is Tehran
IM-chatting with a friend in Iran about Eugène Ionesco I stumbled randomly on this quote that charmed me: I got the idea of making analogies between cities from Hofstadter, who quoted Ionesco’s remark The French for London is Paris. One of the growing frustrations of life online is that there isn’t yet truly one Web […]