did you know that we consume 200 billion hours a year of TV in this country?

and that all of wikipedia, in all its languages, and including all its edits/talk pages and so on, totals in human hours 100 million?

pretty mind-boggling. this discussion by clay shirky is well worth following all the way through.

the most conservative, which is to say the least fascist thing you could possibly ever do would be to go purchase this book: it's funny because it's funny, and it's funny because it's (not) true.

the poorman regularly delivers some of the best commentary on the web IMHO, so check it. they seem to be back to blogging.

NEW AND IMPROVED

you can now add my posts to del.icio.us or digg them. why would you, though?

no posting, vacation, see you all with lots of new stuff on monday the somethingth.

Chaubise

Nepalese dissident blog. the world is an amazing place, n'est-ce pas?

The Poor Man Institute � Beyond the infinite

see, this is a blog post about my own comment at another (reflexively meta) blog. the comment is about how republicans have taken post-modern post-derrida philosophy and turned it into will-for-power. now i'm blogging that comment.

see, republicans? THIS is how you do meta--pointless and inane navel gazing that comments on itself even as it empties itself of meaning in the process.

get it?