Homage to Icarus

It’s been said before, but a person’s first foray into free cul­ture of any type is often to scratch an itch. For me, my first Wikipedia edit was undo­ing van­dal­ism on the Hernando de Soto Polar page con­flat­ing him with the con­quis­ta­dor of the same name  —  replac­ing his actual birth date with 1500-something, etc.
It’s some­what disappointing […]

Sunday night I freaked some peo­ple out explain­ing how close to a global WTF the econ­omy came, and this morn­ing Bloomberg was sound­ing the all-clear: some wanker was blath­er­ing about how the prob­lem was sim­ply fear in the mar­ket­place, and my gut feel­ing wasn’t the same manic “Are you HIGH!?” that I had when CNBC […]