Public project structures are important, like cathedrals used to be – and I like this idea – the funding architecture as well as the physical architecture.
Month: November 2009
Road-Train – Now You’re Talking
I might be considered a bit of a luddite when it comes to automated sensors and navigational aids on private cars – I can never see the point of taking the human out of the loop – don’t believe the dumbing down can be net positive.
But this road-train idea I like. Totally guided – hands-off / brain-off freedom as in a train when linked to the lead vehicle, but private motoring when it’s the motoring flexibility and freedom you want. Can see the efficiency working if the cars themselves are hybrids – with performance when you want it.
Guess there must be a few failure modes to work out before this can go live ?
Chelsea Win
OK, so for all sorts of prejudiced social reasons, I don’t like Chelsea, but despite my view of the two significant refereeing decisions, I do believe they deserved to beat Man U yesterday, who despite Rooney’s hard work just didn’t have the strike power. And I don’t have any time for Sir Alex’s rantings about fouls awarded or not – the cases in point were debatable, matters of the referee’s perspective.
Booking Drogba ? 100% right. OK so he was fouled and he didn’t feign injury, and yes Fletch deserved a card more than once yesterday, but Drogba feigned imminent death in full view of referee and the rest of the world. A bookable offence. Referee correct.
Terry’s goal ? 100% wrong. Drogba was clearly interfering with play right in front of the keeper – in full view of the referee’s assistant. Van der Saar didn’t even dive till Drogba had failed to kick it, he was covering Drogba’s strike. 100% offside, no goal. Referee’s assistant wrong, referee correct.
The referee did nothing wrong.
[Note : Psybertron is primarily about right and wrong in action. Chelsea FC are just an interesting source of contentious decisions – a high-profile case-study of individual, social and authority based ethics. But, yes, I do care about football too.]
Some New Pirsig Links
A page discussing Pirsig at Reddit which I picked up from the del.ici.ous tag on Pirsig which grows all the time – must use del.ici.ous more myself.
Musicians’ Olympus
Is a 60/70/80’s mainly UK rock musicians reference site from the 90’s (pre-blogs and wikis) that has just had all its content at Geocities go offline. Good luck to Miguel Terol getting the content re-built in Blogger / BlogSpot form.
Pelosi in Tears
I’ve not been following the detail of what’s in, what’s out of the health reform bill, and it was a close margin with only one Republican crossing the house – but a momentous vote bringing tears to the eyes.