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	<description>a blog mostly about a book in progress</description>
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		<title>A lindy hop, skip and a jump</title>
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After hearing J’s talk of the fun to be had doing old-school American jive dances, and finding a series of lindy-hop instructional videos on YouTube, I figured it had to be worth trying some classes. I’ve felt conscious of being a lot – dancier? – all this year, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jrandomhacker.wordpress.com&blog=83878&post=16&subd=jrandomhacker&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://jrandomhacker.wordpress.com/2006/10/10/a-lindy-hop-skip-and-a-jump/</link>
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		<title>love in a hive mind</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Language programs our behaviour in such heavy ways; how we interrelate and decide one anothers&#8217; fate is hedged about with possessives.
I&#8217;ve recently been involved in a couple of different kinds of governance discussions. In one, a group of decision makers is assembled, some of whom are engaged in philosophical disputations, others are rigorously attepting to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jrandomhacker.wordpress.com&blog=83878&post=15&subd=jrandomhacker&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://jrandomhacker.wordpress.com/2006/08/22/love-in-a-hive-mind/</link>
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		<title>theosophical investigations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Where the remainder pile in that bookshop is concerned, i have no free will. Books often come in pairs, but today I couldn&#8217;t leave without a set of three; God&#8217;s Last Words, The Book of J, and The Devil in the Shape of a Woman.
Why am i reading about how the Bible has been read? [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jrandomhacker.wordpress.com&blog=83878&post=14&subd=jrandomhacker&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://jrandomhacker.wordpress.com/2006/06/30/theosophical-investigations/</link>
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		<title>On moving things from one place to another</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Work on the book which led me to start blogging as a &#39;yak-shaving&#39; activity, stalled halfway; I wasn&#39;t feeling connected to where I was writing it from. Essays tending to lack narrative constraint due to overambition, containing not quite enough and also too much. As i had a bit of poetry going on already, i [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jrandomhacker.wordpress.com&blog=83878&post=13&subd=jrandomhacker&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://jrandomhacker.wordpress.com/2006/05/07/on-moving-things-from-one-place-to-another/</link>
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		<title>A Short Letter to Henry David Thoreau</title>
		<description><![CDATA[P was so kind as to send me the collected poetry of W.H. Auden (less the few poems that he repudiated as being insincere, later in life) for a birthday present. I find it grippingly readable and sometimes very affecting, and bearing a lot of resemblance to the sort of thing i&#39;d like to be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jrandomhacker.wordpress.com&blog=83878&post=12&subd=jrandomhacker&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://jrandomhacker.wordpress.com/2006/04/27/a-short-letter-to-henry-david-thoreau/</link>
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		<title>skewed distribution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was lucky enough to spend time with RG recently, and i had a fun conversation with him about singularity related optimism, positivism. He talked of Information-carrying, information-sharing objects, simple replicators, a revolutionary potential therein, in the Bruce Sterling type narrative, to provide a basic level of material support to every person on the planet. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jrandomhacker.wordpress.com&blog=83878&post=10&subd=jrandomhacker&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://jrandomhacker.wordpress.com/2006/03/12/skewed-distribution/</link>
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		<title>a kind of kindness in kinds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have become used to thinking of what RC has been calling &#8220;datamancy&#8221; as something that one does only with abstract information networks. I remember that a network of interconnected information is something I used to find in words in the world, and still do now. I recall one summer when i read three books [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jrandomhacker.wordpress.com&blog=83878&post=9&subd=jrandomhacker&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://jrandomhacker.wordpress.com/2006/02/28/a-kind-of-kindness-in-kinds/</link>
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		<title>reflections on systems and subjects</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was offered a couple of reflections on recent writing that i wanted to note here.
KS offered a viable redemption of the word system, which i was starting to think just couldn&#8217;t be re-used, carrying too many implications within itself of one part of a system being governed and subsumed by another. K said:
the &#8220;operating [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jrandomhacker.wordpress.com&blog=83878&post=7&subd=jrandomhacker&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://jrandomhacker.wordpress.com/2006/02/03/reflections-on-systems-and-subjects/</link>
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		<title>co-operating systems</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wrote the following passage in a different document where, as it was kindly pointed out to me, it clearly didn&#8217;t belong. I liked it a lot when i wrote it, and wanted to figure out where it does belong in the complex of thoughts that surround it.
The words &#8220;operating system&#8221; are pretty ghastly when [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jrandomhacker.wordpress.com&blog=83878&post=5&subd=jrandomhacker&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://jrandomhacker.wordpress.com/2006/02/01/co-operating-systems/</link>
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		<title>what WePrime means to me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to use this space to start clarifying what i have meant when i have talked about WePrime, because a couple of people who have asked me about it, seem to think i meant something different and more direct than I intended, when i used the term.
The word WePrime started as a play on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jrandomhacker.wordpress.com&blog=83878&post=6&subd=jrandomhacker&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://jrandomhacker.wordpress.com/2006/01/30/what-weprime-means-to-me/</link>
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