{"id":1598,"date":"2009-11-13T01:00:26","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T08:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=1598"},"modified":"2009-11-13T01:00:26","modified_gmt":"2009-11-13T08:00:26","slug":"omni-meaning-lots-of-links-and-not-that-magazine-with-the-cool-covers-from-yesteryear-sadly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2009\/11\/13\/omni-meaning-lots-of-links-and-not-that-magazine-with-the-cool-covers-from-yesteryear-sadly\/","title":{"rendered":"Omni. Meaning lots of links and not that magazine with the cool covers from yesteryear. Sadly."},"content":{"rendered":"

The Browser<\/a> is my favorite site of the moment. The below excerpts are taken mostly from it. <\/p>\n

\t· \u201cI argue that dreaming is not a parallel state but that it is consciousness itself, in the absence of input from the senses…” \u2013\u00a0Dr. Rodolfo Llin\u00e1s as quoted in The New York Times<\/a>. Amazon reader reviews<\/a> of Llin\u00e1s’ book suggest the premise of his books is pretty interesting: that consciousness evolves from motor skills; that is, how we learn to move in space. Thus, consciousness is a gift shared by many, many other animals. <\/p>\n

\t· John Kay in the Financial Times argues<\/a>, dryly, that Wall Street has overstepped its bounds. For example: “Privatisation and the breaking up of statutory monopolies has reduced rent-seeking by organised groups of public employees. But the scale of corporate rent-seeking activities by business and personal rent-seeking by senior individuals in business and finance has increased sharply.”<\/p>\n

\t· Never mind the Great Firewall, here’s the Spinternet<\/a>: “The Russians outsource it to new media start-ups who then create ideological social networking and blogs that promote a pro-Kremlin ideology. The Chinese have created a decentralized, 280,000-person-strong contingent of what is known as the 50-cent party, members of which get paid 50 Chinese cents for each comment they leave online.” <\/p>\n

\t· Other people’s problems are always more interesting: a fascinating account<\/a> of Europe’s struggle to assimilate immigrants who invoke (or invent) a Muslim identity in their new home \u2013 inhospitable as it may feel. While I was reminded of the late Sam Huntington’s mad tirade against the Catholic hordes (Mexicans), that conflict feels quaint by comparison. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Browser is my favorite site of the moment. The below excerpts are taken mostly from it. · \u201cI argue that dreaming is not a parallel state but that it is consciousness itself, in the absence of input from the senses…” \u2013\u00a0Dr. Rodolfo Llin\u00e1s as quoted in The New York Times. Amazon reader reviews of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,5,15,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}