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A lot of fascinating ideas in this collection of essays - not just his.

Single-page:

for i in `seq 1 17` ; do curl http://edge.org/q2011/q11_$i.html >> edge.html ; done

Nice. And on a mac without seq:

for i in `jot 17 1`; do curl http://edge.org/q2011/q11_$i.html >> edge.html; done

Thanks for the update. Didn't realize seq was just a GNU coreutils thing.

Sometimes I geek out on getting something like this all onto a single readable page which I save in my homedir, then make my default home/open page in my browser, for good offline reading.

So in this case I used wget to save as individual files, then did this to trim out the header and footer:

for i in `seq 1 17`; do grep -A999 'width="534"' q11_$i.html | grep -B9999 '<hr width="700" align="center" noshade size="1">' >> edge.html ; done

Now edge.html will be my homepage for a while. (I work offline most of the time.) Great stuff. Inspiring as hell.

Edge.org really is amazing. I've been consistently impressed with it for years.

After I finish figuring out some Twitter and Facebook API stuff I'm going to head offline too, and try this out as my homepage. Several months ago I went without a computer for 3 weeks, and the clarity/deepness of thought I experienced really surprised me. I'm curious to find out how much was due to avoiding computers, and how much to avoiding the internet.