The completeness of Iceland's National Register has eliminated the need for the country to conduct a regular census: population statistics can be obtained by simply querying the database.

Iceland are way ahead of the rest of us. (emphasis mine, source)

Fascinating — Konrad Lorenz compares cultural revolution with exoskeleton-clad Arthropods shedding their shells:

The act of demolishing carefully erected structures, though indispensable if better adapted ones are to arise, is always followed by a period of vulnerability.

#reading On Aggression

The more interwoven the relationship between the appearance and the manufacturing process is, the more honest the material.

Too right. I love the way @kevingoldman advocates the use of movement, state and microcopy for emotive design on the web.

(source) /via @alistapart #bookmark #web #design #flatland

[adding web actions support] took me five minutes and two lines of code.

This is what we like to hear! Nice one Laurent Eschenauer! (source)

P.S. 5 mins and 2 lines of declarative HTML! Beat that, web intents/activities

“…and Jake the Human, the fun will never end, it’s #adventuretime”

Brother: “The fun has to end because one of them will die” #killjoy

The single greatest thing about the social web is how it has forced people to overcome their technophobias in order to connect with other humans.

/by Chris Messina (source)

If content is important to you, keep it close. If your content is important to others, keep it close and well backed up.

by Drew McLellan (source) #indieweb

Empower yourself. Your friends. Your community. But push yourself to go further, because you can.

– Tantek Çelik (source)

pcntl_wait($status); //Protect against Zombie children

Every now and again the otherwise banal PHP docs make me laugh.

“I am not a number, I am my domain name” — Tantek Çelik eloquently summarises #indieweb thinking in On Silos vs an Open Social Web #bookmark

Here's some "proactive" "predictive policing" for you:

Cops will kill people. Might as well imprison all if them now.

/cc Jovian Salak by Shane Becker #policestate #politics

AOL converted him into an AOL-BOT to be used in chat-rooms. [citation needed]

Sounds ominous…

The jwentomologist reaction to a programme about bionics:

“They could use that to build a pantomime horse”

“We have to start the cow paths for the world. The paved paths are for the privileged.” (source) by inkpixelspaper

“The spirit of the law, not the letter of the law, should be your guide” About Face 2.0

School grades are a measure of how socially acceptable your level of remembering–ability was when you did the exams, relative to everyone else.

Therefore, their meaning and value deteriorate over time. The value and meaning of things you create and add to the world generally increase with time (become more well-known, better used, refined, etc.)

Just pushed a load of #taproot changes to auto-tagging which should make structured, tag–based querying of notes way easier.

This note should be tagged with mention, reply, quote and location as it contains all of that data.

Some Test Quote with a mention in

“Stop spending our money showing us the illusion of #democracy!” Me on politics in general and election campaigns in particular as quoted by joviansalak