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State of the World 2012

• #234: Ed Ward (captward) Sun 22 Jan 12 04:44
  And given that the German means world-pain, that makes more sense. [Read entire topic] […]
• #233: David Gans (tnf) Sat 21 Jan 12 23:19
  That's M-W's definition, really? I was taught that it had to do with feeling the pain of the world, not just being disappointed in it. [Read entire topic] […]
• #232: Jon Lebkowsky (jonl) Sat 21 Jan 12 11:29
  http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/weltschmerzWeltschmerz: mental depression or apathy caused by comparison of the actual state of the world with an ideal stateThanks and a tip o' the hat to Garry Golden for the pointer to this relevant definition. [Read entire topic] […]
• #231: Jon Lebkowsky (jonl) Fri 20 Jan 12 13:05
  I just wandered in from a very good talk at the University of Texas by Elizabeth Churchill of Yahoo Research (http://elizabethchurchill.com/). I was there with my pals Gregory Foster, Bill Anderson, and David Ryan, all Austin-based technologists. Another friend, tech entrepreneur Tristan Slominski, was across the room. The rest were mostly UT students.Church […]
• #230: Ted Newcomb (tcn) Fri 20 Jan 12 11:11
  Great as always, thanks to both of you for your time and thinking out loud. [Read entire topic] […]
• #229: Gail Williams (gail) Fri 20 Jan 12 10:57
  Wish I could share some "analog geolocative presence" and some nice older tequila. Instead, a digital gesture of a toast to you and to the future and to the beauty of the unfolding sky, from here in San Francisco. [Read entire topic] […]
• #228: Peter Meuleners (pjm) Fri 20 Jan 12 10:52
  "analog geolocative presence" is a great term. [Read entire topic] […]
• #227: Bruce Sterling (bruces) Fri 20 Jan 12 10:49
  Commonly I end these WELL things in some personal burst of visionary eloquence. Last year, I wrote a long culture-critic essay all about Cibelle. Cibelle, the London-Sao Paulo multi-artist. I just heard from Cibelle. Cibelle's still performing her music, in extravagant costume, with video, but she told me that she'd like to go to art school and get […]
• #226: those Andropovian bongs (rik) Fri 20 Jan 12 09:40
  Medicare has given me a sense of safety and freedom that I had been sadly lacking for the last 20 years due to a pre-existing condition from which I'd been cured 35 years ago. That didn't matter to the health insurance companies And when I had lost my job-related insurance 25 or so years ago, the woman on the phone at one of the companies I applied […]
• #225: Ted Newcomb (tcn) Fri 20 Jan 12 08:20
  We're going to have to have an honest and open conversation about health care and end of life, here in the U.S.Now that I've retired and am approaching my 65th birthday, this is my year for Medicare and some semblance of health insurance. Choosing Parts C and D are my big decisions for the year and the choices aren't all that great.I'm no […]