Just purged a bunch of people from my Facebook profile. I hadn’t talked to them in years and/or have no expectation of talking to them years from now. I did a smaller purge along the same lines on last.fm a couple months ago. If social networks only matter as much as the links that constitute them do, then said networks need pruning from time to time — the network needs to be able to correct its bad routes.

That said, if by chance you are a purgee and are reading this, it is nothing personal. We hadn’t talked and I didn’t see that changing. If you have a problem with that, your options are to deal with it, or begin the slow path to proving me wrong.

… the Tacoma Narrows bridge failure has given us invaluable information … It has shown [that] every new structure which projects into new fields of magnitude involves new problems for the solution of which neither theory nor practical experience furnish an adequate guide. It is then that we must rely largely on judgement and if, as a result, errors or failures occur, we must accept them as a price for human progress.

— Othmar Ammann, leading bridge designer and member of the Federal Works Agency Commission

Sorry, nothing else to post. I just thought that was a very insightful quote, and I’d rather not lose it, or at least enjoy it a bit.

Total aside, I have incorporeal.org still, and I have no idea what to do with it. I need a project…