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Semaphore & Cairn

Semaphore & Cairn

—–message systems and citizenship—–

  • Semaphore Modern
  • Cairn Everlasting

Author: Ken Smith

These pieces were not written by the late British poet, Ken Smith (1938-2003), nor the other Ken Smiths who make bass guitars, study marine biology, sell cars, teach card counting, paint war scenes in oils, guide bear hunters in Idaho, teach forest management, study immunology, do war reporting, sell real estate, photograph nature, teach cryptology, provide legal counsel to the gay and lesbian community, realign the spines of athletes, listen for seismic faults in the Sierra Nevadas, operate a 4-axis milling machine, work for sustainable development in Alberta, play blackjack, or criticize Junk English. Nor were the pieces written by the Ken Smith who is “the Elvis Costello of Landscape Architecture” nor the one who serves in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives nor the one who hit a home run for the Atlanta Braves in 1983. I only wish.

Rent-seeking: “grabbing a bigger slice of the pie rather than making the pie bigger.”

http://www.economist.com/news/international/21599041-countries-where-politically-connected-businessmen-are-most-likely-prosper-planet?fsrc=scn/tw_ec/planet_plutocrat

Ken Smith Uncategorized October 2, 2014

“Tag everything you can,” writes @dsearls. In other words, make human judgments that machines can share with others.

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2014/10/01/want-influence-make-yourself-useful/

Ken Smith Uncategorized October 2, 2014

Took courses in the field but “the first time I had ever read about a female programmer was in a Batman comic book.”

Ken Smith Uncategorized October 2, 2014

“It’s no secret that people are often erased from the history of big-tech companies.” Women, for example.

Ken Smith Uncategorized October 2, 2014

Politics balanced “on a foundation of ignorance, in which the public has no idea what our society is really like.”

Ken Smith Uncategorized September 29, 2014September 29, 2014

An open letter to @FoxNews about stupid sexist remarks, signed by five dozen representatives of the US military.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/an-open-letter-to-fox-news

Ken Smith Uncategorized September 29, 2014

For people who do something truly great, maybe this is true: “His only death is in biography.”–William Fense Weaver

Ken Smith Uncategorized September 26, 2014September 26, 2014

A fifteen-word poem about seeing the world very differently than before. Text and .30 second audio. By yours truly.

https://witness.theguardian.com/search?q=private+club

Ken Smith Uncategorized September 23, 2014

Scientists must “be out there defending the science, explaining the science and its implications” for public policy.

http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/thepulse/item/72489-the-art-of-explaining-science-and-why-its-so-hard-to-do-

Ken Smith Uncategorized September 23, 2014

I’m a citizen, not a couch potato. I’m not watching.

http://10x14s.smallpict.com/2014/09/23/#a1411479168

Ken Smith Uncategorized September 23, 2014

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