Freedom from choice

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Freedom of Choice is What you Got Freedom from Choice is What you Want --Devo, Freedom of Choice

as quoted by the Catfish in the memepool in a very interesting piece on a postmodern pattern in web frameworks, mostly explained in terms of swiss army knifes, base- and football facilities and RubyOnRails.

Brian loves to use lyrics to make his points.

And makes me think a bit on kicks we might still need to put or pull in helma2.

"On the Road" might be a better concept than "On Rails", but then on the road there is more death than on rails. In the air the rails are invisible, but they are there. So what is it then? Come on it's only weak examples. But still, roads won out over rails as a transport infrastructure. Everybody can go on them with nearly no checks at all. They have lots of disadvantages. Still they can go where no rails ever went. And bicycles go even further, nowadays.

Dptmt: stuff I kinda missed 2005 Laptops for Kids with no Power "The $100 laptop is a really cool idea. But the real technology bottleneck is getting an affordable internet connection to the outside world," said Vota. The $100 laptop needs no el from no plug but what SW will it be running? Let Seymour see to it. If Negroponte and Papert succeed in this, I will reverse all of my long harboured prejudices against both of them. And for the sake of peace I will include Marvin Minsky and Nathan Myrvhold.

yahoo.at is the nicest yahoo of all.

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