Being boring
“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”
-Gustave Flaubert
Local domain name extensions
Counties should have there own domain name extensions e.g. .ox.uk for Oxfordshire and .dv.uk for Devon.
How we think of the world wide web
It’s interesting that we think of using the world wide web with concepts such as “visiting” and “surfing” which imply actively going on a journey to a particular location, when in actual fact we stay in one place and the website, etc. visits us. The experience of using the world wide web is much closer to watching TV but we think of it very differently.
Fully immersed in the creative life
“If you are fully immersed in your creative life and the crossroads has long left your rearview mirror, be affirmed. The friends, mothers, fathers, therapists, colleagues, ex-boyfriends, ex-girlfriends, ex-husbands, and ex-wives who said yo u were crazy and you work too hard and you will never make it and you need more balance were wrong, as are the ones who still do. “
– Kevin Ashton. How to fly a horse
Some tortoise jokes
Some tortoise jokes, just because you never know when you’ll need them.
Q. Where do you find a tortoise with no legs?
A. Where you left it!
Q: Why did the tortoise cross the road?
A: To get to the Shell station!
Q: What did the snail say on the tortoise’s back?
A: Weeeeeee!
Q. What’s a tortoise’s favourite leisure activity?
A. Terrapin Bowling!
nom.pa
nom.pa domain name is only $105 for two years…
Invention is an act of infinite and imperfect iteration
Invention is an act of infinite and imperfect iteration. New solutions beget new problems, which beget new solutions. This is the cycle of our species. We will always make things better. We will never make them best.
-Kevin Ashton. How to Fly a Horse: The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery
CoolPoints
CoolPoints for the father and son going to school on a tandem.