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Friday, February 07 2003

Ben Rooney : PowerPoint of view

[O]utliners force us into a way of thinking that is actively inimical to creativity. They corral us down a linear pathway. They make us focus on what we just thought, rather than freeing us for what to think next. They are entirely left-brain tools and, while they may offer an illusion of rationality and control, what they largely do is prevent us thinking.

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Not to piss too hard on the revisionist parade surrounding GreyMatter today,

but the program sucked as many rocks back then as it still does now. I was pleased to see that Noah has released the code under a Creative Commons license because the initial terms were partly responsible for my not being very interested in submitting fixes and hacks. So, I downloaded the latest tarball and, lo, nothing much has changed. File and directories are both still world writable, passwords are passed around, clear-text in <hidden> fields and the CGI.pm wheel continues to be re-invented which is either the mark of folly, idiocy or both. And it's got to be some of the ugliest code you'll ever see in your life. see also : [Most] third-party weblog setups are fuct from the start (you'll have to scroll down a ways)

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Luke Andrews on the Canadian hinterland and Hogtown

see also : Peter Scowen on places where actual politics replaces yes/no/yes/no/yes/no; not be confused with a very funny song about U.I. whose chorus was yes, yes, yes, no, yes!

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