Nick Harkaway - The Gone-Away World
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Nick Harkaway - The Gone-Away World
THE PIRATES ARE OUT TO GET YOU! DOOM! DOOOOOOM!!! (Also, they sponsor prostitutes to advertise their wares, sell drugs on street corners and re-edit Bambi to include commercials for crack.) Yeah, so. That’s a FACT video from a few years ago. ...
Nick Harkaway - The Gone-Away World
Two things have happened this morning which are insanely annoying...
Larry
Larry
Not a single word, but perhaps "path dependence"? http://eh.net/encyclopedia/article/puffert.path.dependence
Mon at 7:59am
Nick Harkaway - The Gone-Away World
(film clip via boingboing) This is your brain on digital… A weird thing has just occurred to me, which is, in and of itself, not weird or even unusual.I was looking at this clip of colour footage of London from, like, a gajillion years ago – well, okay, 1927. To...
Nick Harkaway - The Gone-Away World
Facts are bad. Yes, yes, they are. It’s well known (though clearly not a fact) that all facts adduced in argument by people we do not agree with are evil. Facts undermine fiercely-held convictions with their wicked, scientific factiness. ...
Paul
Paul
In the words of Talking Heads (from their song Crosseyed and Painless):

Faccts are simple and facts are straight
Facts are lazy and facts are late
Facts all come with points of view... Read More
Facts don't do what I want them to
Facts just twist the truth around
Facts are living turned inside out
Facts are getting the best of them
Facts are nothing on the face of things
Facts don't stain the furniture
Facts go out and slam the door
Facts are written all over your face
Facts continue to change their shape
November 3 at 2:16pm
Nick Harkaway - The Gone-Away World
A few weeks ago I tweeted grouchily that this government appears to me to have an absolute contempt for the law and the truth. Let me explain. 1...
Justen Pritchett
Justen Pritchett
Wow, I live in the USA and we have all of these stupid problems too, also no health care.
November 2 at 4:44pm
Nick Harkaway - The Gone-Away World
Today is a day dear to my heart. No. No, no, no. I do not refer to this weird pumpkin fetish you all have, nor to the horde of under-10s currently engaged in learning the nuances of the protection racket in the streets of London. I refer to the fact that it is Mrs Harkaway’s birthday. ...
Nick Harkaway - The Gone-Away World
A million years ago, when the Internet was young, I was researching supertankers for a project I had in mind for a film. (It was one of the completely awesome ideas which got pissed on from a great height by the luminaries of our industry...
Nick Harkaway - The Gone-Away World
Nick Harkaway - The Gone-Away World
[image by Bernd Settnik under cc share alike 3.0 via Wikipedia] London, October 22nd...
Eduardo Chavez Colvialle
Eduardo Chavez Colvialle
Mr Muffin - That's an appropriate name.
October 29 at 8:18pm
Nick Harkaway - The Gone-Away World
Just so it doesn’t slip off your radar: the Google Books thing is still trundling along. Because it is, as I noted when I first started looking at it, basically very boring, it’s apt to drop off one’s to-do list. Howe...
Nick Harkaway - The Gone-Away World
More news I made up, but which is alas factually accurate. London, 16th October...
Justen Pritchett
Justen Pritchett
It is the governments right to use the English language as they see fit for our own good. They can change the meaning of any word at any time to fit their interests.
October 16 at 1:09pm
Nick Harkaway - The Gone-Away World
[Sledgehammers under CC Sharealike 3.0 by Shakespeare] Public announcement: I have today secured a gagging order through the good offices of Messrs Weezil, Crouke, and Fylthe, which binds not only the conventional media but also the entire internet not to talk about my recent disgraceful behaviour...
Nick Harkaway - The Gone-Away World
A few years ago now, I was sitting at my desk and feeling confused about my life. Not unusual. Not for anyone, and certainly, at that time, not for me. I noodled around, hated my latest script (I honestly have no idea what it was) and couldn’t get to grips with it. ...
Nick Harkaway - The Gone-Away World
Musing on books and AI… (because of the piece I just did for the Guardian Books blog, which isn’t up yet but when it is I’ll put a link right here.) When the Singularity occurs, and we mammals are herded into reservations so that robot children covered in sweets and robot parents with harri...
Rayma
Rayma
I think I've already met Mr. Cantaloupe 6... it wasn't a terribly pleasant experience so I do hope you are wrong about this future...
September 25 at 11:16am
Nick Harkaway - The Gone-Away World
Everyone knows about Six Degrees by now, right? In case the answer is no: it’s the social mathematical phenomenon which connects everyone in six steps or fewer. ...