also, Foucault

Sonic hedgehog is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SHH ("sonic hedgehog") gene.[1] Both the gene and the protein may also be found notated alternatively as "Shh".

At least one of my friends reported that he had wireless synching of his phone disabled; Apple overrode his express preferences in order to add the album to his music collection.

Right now about 4% of container traffic to the US is inspected. There is a post Sept 11 fear of the Poor Man's ICBM law mandating that 100% of it will be scanned. The shipping industry has responded by serenely ignoring the law and continuing more or less as before. The US keeps extending the deadline but it's a farce. Inspections have been holding steady at about 4% for a decade.

Right now about 4% of container traffic to the US is inspected.

The markers must be developed to communicate with people whose culture may not be directly descended from our own. This possible cultural change is in addition to the changes in language that normally occur over time, even when societies are in continuous contact. Secondly, the period of regulatory concern (10,000 years) requires that the marker materials, construction techniques, and placement be able to withstand the forces of nature and the tendency of human beings to vandalize structures or to remove pieces. Thirdly, the markers must be able to convey complex information, not just about wastes hidden from view, but also about the hazards of radioactivity as a function of time.

We learn most about powr when we lose it and are left eating cereal on the front stoop.

everything that casts a light sees

They[lanterns] were attached to cables strung across the street so that they hung exactly in the middle of the steet, like small suns, representing the Sun King, on whos orders they had been put up... The lanterns showed who lit the streets and who ruled them.

"during the months of november, december, and january, a lantern is to be hungout under the level of the of the first floor windowsils before six o'clock every night. It is to be placed in such a prominent position that the street recives sufficient light." ... this decree aimed less to illuminate the street than to make individual houses recognisable by forcing them to display "navigation" lights, thus imposing structure and order on the city by night.

The smarts are on the network, where they should be.

We have no demography for machines- For three hundred years [demography] has gone on with people, nothing is on the books for demography of machines.

Tools are a fundamental feature of human culture, but capitalism converts tools into gear.

real world on the ground.