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April 16, 2002
Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, revisited

Marc Rotenberg revisits Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451:

Fahrenheit 451 is not simply about book burning. This is a world where the culture of censorship has permeated the public and the where the culture of censorship has permeated the public and the private. There is no intellectual life. There is no political life. Interactive broadband technology provides endless entertainment through the full-screen images that appear on the walls of a parlor room. Words of meaning cannot be transmitted in any physical media. They must be memorized and passed on as they were before the printing press, before the written word.

This is one of my favorite books, it really kick starts thoughts of how valuable free flow of information actually is.

Via Doc Searls weblog

Posted by jarle at 05:01 PM | Comments (4)
Death Does Not Justify Death

Well written by Hanan Cohen about the situation in Israel and the west bank:
INFO.ORG.IL - Death does not justif Death

Posted by jarle at 04:39 PM
Not enought hours in the day?

Los Angeles Times writes:


What if you could take a pill and stretch your day--by skipping sleep?

That sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but a drug called Provigil could make it possible. Studies have shown that this new medication allows people to remain awake and attentive when their bodies normally crave shut-eye, without suffering the unpleasant side effects and risk of addiction associated with caffeine, amphetamines and other stimulants.

A Pill to Stretch Your Day

Posted by jarle at 04:34 PM