Bursts aren’t contentless, nor do they denote the end of Attention Span. If attention span was dead, JK Rowling wouldn’t be selling paperbacks thick enough to choke a pig, and Neal Stephenson wouldn’t be making a living off books the size of the first bedsit I lived in.
— Burst Culture
Monthly Archives: October 2008
A quote from Warren Ellis
2008-10-24 – 00:07:15
ThiGMOO, by Eugene Byrne (Books 2008, 11)
2008-10-13 – 21:38:18
This is, in effect, a Singularity story, though a rather gentle, slightly comic one.
The AIs that gain self-awareness and seek to achieve independence and change the world, start out as part of an educational project called the Museum of the Mind. In this construct there are a number of simulations of figures from history [...]
Corporal punishment: not on my watch
2008-10-03 – 06:57:18
There was an arse on the Today programme this morning, calling for the return of corporal punishment to schools. One in five teachers, he says, want it ‘as an option’.
Two points, then: a) that means four in five don’t want it, and b) why do you think it’s all right to use violence against [...]