randomly, it would seem

For us Java programmers, money is not an object. Yet.

a very xkcd like thing

on a (typically) unrelated note, an old saying
"Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things"

Put _that_ in your pipe and smoke it !!

interesting direction this - the cycling, I mean ... 'urban tribe' is a concept I like.

The critique of civillization faq guy talks about it too. The critique offers a very different and refreshing perspective and the links make interesting reading . And this guy keeps talking of the times when people spent days in leisure and talk and idleness. Something went very wrong with the world afterwards, I guess

One more reference to the leisurely (American)Indian way of life , and this time not from Uncle Ben. Uncle Ben was the one who said 'God helps those who help themselves' - been to many a buffet eh, we says.

Cross-reference with Jared Diamond's article , and a solution emerges...

A manual for the wannabees, then .
- how to disappear

of course, let's not leave Fight Club out of this ..
and neither what Chomsky says about Adam Smith, in the temptingly titled education is ignorance ...
and not Alvin Toffler's Third Wave, Sec II - Chapter 4 - Breaking the Code -
shall we forget

It would be amazing to live next to a gurgling river, Kennethe Grahame has around half a chapter on it, but I'd guess mosquitoes and evolution would probably give your grand-children skin the thickness of a rhino...

one with bad lighting - a scenario working out -cubicle revolution (nsfw)

quote : Henry Allen - It's better for a civillization to be going down the drain than coming up it



the manifesto sort of thing - from xkcd for the cube dwellers ..

Extreme concentrated focus brings about a feeling of well-being. And vice-versa.
Rearset mentions tunnel vision in a cerebral post. I'm thinking this is what makes me feel peaced out after a longish unbroken ride..