Meta note for anyone still bored enough to glace at my blog. Instead of doing blog entries for interesting links, i've been using del.icio.us under an account name srparish. I'll keep on rambling here, but probably pretty infrequently.

I think we have to stop spending money that we don't have. We're overconsuming. We have to find things to do other than just buying things. Learning things would probably be a better past time. That's a hard thing for a culture to change. But i certainly find learning things and solving problems the most challenging thing. If we're going to compete in this thing that Tom Freeman calls a flat world we're going to have to get more interested in solving prolbems and being entrepreneurial and less into materialism that we've become, the consumer emphasis that we have in this country. --Bill Joy, Nerd TV