If you wait for me
I will eat you whole
Call my name, I’ll lend my hand
to push you to the wall
My lust for you is longer
than a tornado is tall
You will rise and I will fall
we’ll rise and fall
rise and fall
Don’t make another noise until I say so
You are my choice you will obey so
now make [...]
Author Archives: sbenthall
Roman Empire
January 9, 2012 – 1:02 am
The Summit
December 15, 2011 – 3:21 am
When we look at the other
we think we understand each other
eye to eye we clearly see
the words are not just words but meanings
we play a game of mysteries
but we both know the rules are written
in a script that’s chiseled
at the bottom of the rock pools whence we’ve sprung
and where we’ll bleed
when we fall from dancing [...]
some thoughts on Internet privacy and identity (city vs. village)
November 13, 2011 – 8:37 pm
One of the things at stake–in the debate about internet privacy, say–is whether or not people will be able to be whole people, real people, on the Internet.
This is related to the question of whether or not people can be whole people, real people, in public.
A difference between living in a city and living in [...]
to a coin
October 31, 2011 – 12:04 am
You are brilliant. You are foolish. Your nature cycles like the sunlight.
Which are you, in any moment, in particular? How could you tell?
Can you reach behind yourself to pull your own puppet strings? Can you reach in front of you, lift your own palm to your face–’stop’?
Eyes will only see only [...]
Apotheosis of Crowds
October 29, 2011 – 5:30 pm
Oh, ye of little faith, why don’t you just put the broader problem out
on the internets and hope for an emergent self-organization? – Yuri Takhteyev
Today, the crowd is wise, participatory, and united. As the success of Wikipedia and existence of Mechanical Turk prove, ‘crowdsourcing’ techniques, which harness voluntary human activity to produce knowledge [...]
