Simon Griffee
Department of graphic design, art direction, and photography.

October 2016

Someone please make a browser-based wiki that works offline (HTML5 local storage) and can be used on any computer, including pocket ones like iPhones, and keeps our information synchronized between them.

The flow would be something like:

Download and install a wiki application to each computer we use, including pocket ones.
Editing the wiki on each computer saves to offline local storage.
An option to define a personal central server is available in settings. If this is activated and our login credentials are set each app auto-syncs with server automatically whenever wifi is available or a ‘sync’ button on the top-right of the viewport is activated. Furthermore, an open source example implementation of this server, perhaps powered by sandstorm.io and Google App Engine, is made available.

Basically an open source app on each owned computing device editable using WikiWords that automatically create /w/WikiWords pages, synchronized across devices. Bonus points for eventual options to publish a version of the wiki and make it editable by anyone, perhaps using Git.

I got this idea from the Manage Your Knowledge section of Andy Hunt’s Pragmatic Thinking and Learning, that I warmly recommend to anyone interested in learning.

A Basic Income for Every Human Being

I’ve recently been discussing the idea of a basic income for all human beings with a skeptical friend. I tell him that just because something hasn’t worked (or been tried) before doesn’t mean it can’t work. That’s how new ideas and paradigm shifts happen.

A few answers to some of the most frequently asked questions:

Upcoming Basic Income experiments in:

For more see BasicIncome.org and Scott Santen’s blog.

6th Avenue and 42nd Street, New York City, October 2015

Published 2016 October 25

Monsters #: Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.

— Primo Levi

Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.”

—Primo Levi

Jones Street, New York City, September 2015

Published 2016 October 16

Ur-Fascism #

Umberto Eco:

There is in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People.

Vote, please.

Bob Dylan, New York City, October 2016

Published 2016 October 13

They Not Busy Being Born Is Busy Dyin' #

Time Bandits #: …this separation between past, present, and future is only an illusion, if a stubborn one.

5th Avenue, New York City, May 2016

Published 2016 October 12

Snapdrop #: Need to transfer a file between your pocket, lap or desk computer? Bookmark SnapDrop.net, an open source HTML5 web app that is basically a clone of Apple’s Airdrop.