u srednjoj školi smo održali jedan zajednički sat etike i vjeronauka - inicijator je bio naš prof. etike, vjerojatno nas je nečemu htio naučiti - mislim da mu cilj nije bio učenje međusobne trpeljivosti, ali to je jedino što smo uspjeli izvući iz tog sata. Jer zaista je potrebno živaca i veliko srce da pustite jednom vjeroučitelju da vas uči o vašem ženskom tijelu i tome što smijete, a što ne smijete raditi. Moram priznati da mi je uspio zgaditi vlastito tijelo - ne znam, sve te njihove priče nekako se obrušavaju na žene kao one koje su grešnice i izvor svega zla, ali zato kad djecu treba rađati…
February 17, 2008
February 15, 2008
sites like reddit are inherently orders of magnitude more biased than the average mainstream news source. For every lying bastard distorting things one way in the media, there are 100 nutjobs on Reddit distorting things in every other direction…
February 12, 2008
Counterintuitively, books on paper are a singularly inefficient way to distribute knowledge. Most books are damned to a short shelf life and shockingly limited readership. If your book sells more than 10,000 copies, you are hugely lucky. If you can make a living writing books, consider yourself a genius.
The important part of “bookness” is language stored permanently. Language and permanence take different forms, but it always comes back to that.
We still retain an 18th Century bias towards linear thought. Non-linear thought — like online media consumption — is still typically characterized in the pejorative: scattered, unfocused, undisciplined
February 11, 2008
In a Google search for AP’s top stories of 2007, blogs beat the New York Times by 4-1.
February 10, 2008
Microsoft has shrunk by a Yahoo in the last eight days.
February 8, 2008
What separates the Google generation from postwar generations is the shift from largely image-based passive media to largely text-based interactive media. The ones who spent their childhood years engaged with computers and not zoning out in front of the TV - are the least violent, the most politically engaged and the most entrepreneurial since the dawn of the television era.
February 5, 2008
Have you compared Google’s offerings to the others? I have (I am a Hotmail user). Even though I am locked into Hotmail cause my email address is all over the Web I’d rather be on Gmail and Google’s offerings are better integrated and better designed.
February 4, 2008
If you need your kottke.org fix before that happens, I’ll be standing on the corner of Canal & Bowery in Manhattan handing out slips of paper with cool URLs on them.