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Oh the humanity

March 20, 2001 by Michael Boyle

! When I saw this picture of horrible oversize flower print wallpaper from 1975’s BHG Decorating Book, it immediately flashed in my brain: I had seen it before.

I was in a room that featured that very wallpaper prominently (not that it could be featured subtly, of course) once upon a time. Evidently I haven’t been able to shake the memory. I would say more about whose place it was at, but, well, you never know who might be reading. [the link up there – you must visit – is from the awesome Interior Desecrators: Horrors from the Land of Shag, suggested as a worthy link by Boing Boing]

Kristen Philipkoski

February 19, 2001 by Michael Boyle

in Wired News: What Your Genes Do for You including Francis Collins’ “10 Most Surprising Things About the Human Genome”.

Oh the humanity

January 30, 2001 by Michael Boyle

! Look what Heather found: My Awful Web Site: Canada. There are reasons we Canadians (well, more precisely, Canadians from Southern/Eastern Ontario) of a certain age are the way we are. These are most of them. It’s downright spooky.

Famous dates in Marxian

November 16, 2000 by Michael Boyle

history, part I: On November 16 1842, Marx first met Engels at the offices of Rheinische Zeitung in Cologne, where Marx was an editor. They would become friends two years later when they met again in Paris, following which they became life long collaborators.

Marx, edited by Engels: […] “the human essence is no abstraction inherent in each single individual. In its reality it is the ensemble of the social relations.” (Theses on Feuerbach, 1845).

Feed’s Steven Johnson

November 15, 2000 by Michael Boyle

Feed‘s Steven Johnson in the New York Times (Reg. req’d): Go With Fuzzy Logic. “[…]The issue turns out to be whether perceptual and analytic skills of machines are better than those of humans – a strangely fitting theme for the first election of the 21st century.”