Ryan Sholin

Category: Ideas

  • Technology & Anthropology

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    UPDATED For those of you playing along with the home game, this Summer I’m taking two classes: Technology & Civilization History of California since 1900 , and Emerging Global Cultures. They’re both undergraduate classes in other departments and don’t count toward my degree, but who cares – I’m here to get an actual education. The…

  • Reading Rudy Rucker

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    My three posts this afternoon have all been strictly anti-establishment, so I thought I’d lighten the mood by sharing something I’ve only begun to discover… Rudy Rucker is a painter, a science-fiction author, a photographer, a cinematographer, a collector of gnarl, and a Professor in the Computer Science department at SJSU. He’s listed as “recently…

  • Chinese Democracy Continued…

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    Let me know when companies that sell newsprint start telling newspapers what they can call themselves.

  • Podcast Functionality In iTunes TODAY

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    Bad Apple lets you use iTunes (Windows only for now) to find, download, and listen to podcasts. The iTunes relase of a month from now, today! Still mucking around to see if there’s some sort of alerty subscriptiony thing here, which there doesn’t seem to be – but it’s still WAY quicker/more pleasant than using…

  • Jorge Cortell Redux

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    Interesting. Two days in a row, once on the old blog and once on the new, my post on the Jorge Cortell situation has attracted comments by individuals claiming that he has been discredited as some sort of fraud who faked his credentials. Of course, the comments have exactly the same text as their lead,…

  • Photography by Ryan

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    Notre Dame, Paris 2004 by Ryan Sholin I’ve added a little Photography page to the sidebar with links to my stuff on Photo.net and Flickr. I’m in the process of painstakingly copying all the stuff I have on the old Kodak ofoto site onto Flickr…because I lost all the scans when my hard drive died…

  • New Masthead, New Story

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    The masthead image is now White Sands, New Mexico. Check out the story on the sidebar.

  • Chinese Democracy

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    Sales pitch to China: Hey, have some Capitalism – yeah it’s good stuff, Free Market it up baby, yeah, you can be our most-favored trading partner, alright? How’s that sound? Great, terrific, maybe we can buy a few of your companies as soon as they get big enough to be useful to competitive with us,…

  • Thinking Out Loud About The Postindustrial Workforce

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    A bit of idealism about a postindustrial workforce: With the lack of jobs in conventional fields like manufacturing and agriculture, globalization and computerization have drawn us further into two polarized spaces: the paper-pushers of the world and the burger-flippers of the world – no, of America, really – that’s what I want to talk about…

  • How Politicians Should Treat The Press, and Vice Versa

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    There’s just one thing: all of this advice could (and should) easily be flipped on its head and delivered to the Press.