Iran

Clerical Error

Abbas Milani for The New Republic

Khamenei had even commissioned a group of scholars three years ago to investigate the evolution of these "color revolutions."

It is difficult to imagine the IRGC quelling the current protests and then simply turning power over to the clergy. If a political compromise cannot be reached between the regime and the opposition, and the IRGC is used in suppressing the protests, its commanders would likely expect a bigger role in the government. It is even conceivable that faced with irresolution among the clergy, they will act on their own, and establish a military dictatorship that uses Islam as its ideological veneer--similar to Pakistan under Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq.

When the clerics act, it will be crucial

Ali Ansari for The Guardian

Neither Ayatollah Ali Khamenei nor Ahmadinejad are popular in Qom. The latter's unorthodox millenarian views are regarded with contempt by most senior clergy, while Khamenei has never been accepted as a scholar of note.

"Happiness is Love. Full Stop."

(From section of video entitled "Happiness Isn't About 'Me":)

As soon as the gardening becomes 'doing it for me,' then you get 3rd prize and the best garden club in town doesn't invite you, your life sucks.

What Makes Us Happy? - by Joshua Wolf Shenk - The Atlantic

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most of my content right now is going up to darushimo.tumblr.com right now. check it out when you get a chance. it's really visual, and i like that. i'm planning on bring all my internet stuff all together soon. but until then, most of my 'links' posts will go there. this site will be more narrative (using bunches of links) and updated sporadically.

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Andreessen and Charile Rose "Lay" "It" "All" "Out"

Charlie Rose:
Back to Ning. How many networks do I want to belong to? There is Linkedin, there is Facebook, there is — on and on and on and on.

Marc Andreessen:
I would say how many things do you care about in your life?

Charlie Rose:
Oh, man.

[...]

Marc Andreessen:
[...] there are phones actually that actually don’t have camcorder functions yet and so it actually stitches together a video stream out of individual frames, which is a neat trick by itself. And then now there are cell phones coming out — there are cell phones coming out now that have high def camcorders built in. And so you’re going to have in a couple years it’s going to be fairly common to have a little phone and it’s going to have high def camcorder and it’s going to be streaming high def video over either 3G or the new 4G networks straight onto the Web.

Charlie Rose:
And you know what they’re going to do? They’re going to be able to inject these little devices inside us you know a live stream what’s happening in our body so they’ll tell us exactly how everything is functioning.

Marc Andreessen:
I can’t wait.

Charlie Rose:
I can’t either. No, I’m serious.

Marc Andreessen is a member of the baord of directors at Facebook. He started Ning a social network creating site and is also on the board of directors at eBay. Check out the whole transcript of the Charlie Rose vid on Techcrunch.

Andreessen in Wikiland.

it's funny to think that the sorts of people who we might need to be learning from about social ettiquite are net-heads. This guy has an idea of how what he's saying will be blogged, probably better than a lot of us, and that's going to become a more and more important skill in the future, as relationships between people online become more "newsfeed" focused--as we have these abbreviated relationships.

commentary on the article by steve gillmor at techcrunch

bruce bickford

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZwgpcgHdDQ&NR=1

another reason i think we're heading towards vats of goo

a NYTimes article on how unsafe the internet is, currently, and how that's going to be remedied.  also mentioned in the article: the military, stanford (duh), pirates, probably something about super- something.

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