May. 16th, 2007

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Limits of self-organization, by Paul Duguid.
Abstract:
People often implicitly ascribe the quality of peer–production projects such as Project Gutenberg or Wikipedia to what I call “laws” of quality. These are drawn from Open Source software development and it is not clear how applicable they are outside the realm of software. I look at examples from peer production projects to ask whether faith in these laws does not so much guarantee quality as hide the need for improvement.
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凧上げてゆるりとしたる小村哉
tako agete yururi to shitaru komura kana

a kite rises
slow and easy...
a little village


translated by David Lanoue


деревушка...
неспеша поднимается
воздушный змей

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Теперь я знаю, кто победил в Великой Отечественной войне - партия Единая Россия и ее дрессированные медведи.

http://molgvardia.kirov.ru/edinros/index.html

via [livejournal.com profile] nalymov
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Dutch researchers discovered new human sub-specie: Schlimazel Vulgaris:

...the studies recorded the mishaps suffered by 147,000 people, drawn from the general population in 15 countries.

Strikingly, it appears that there is a discrete group of people who suffer the most accidents: 1 in 29 people have a 50 per cent higher chance of having an accident than the rest of the population.
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теплый вечер -
не о чем говорить
даже с собакой

good night

May. 16th, 2007 10:16 pm
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I pass on. Fading gold sky. A mother watches from her doorway. She calls her children home in their dark language. High wall: beyond strings twanged. Night sky moon, violet, colour of Molly's new garters. Strings. Listen. A girl playing one of these instruments what do you call them: dulcimers. I pass.
James Joyce, Ulysses.

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