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Does the Baby Bust = a Sustainability Boom?

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:04:24 -0500

Does the Baby Bust = a Sustainability Boom?:

I knew that more economic development tends to mean smaller families, and I knew that people were having fewer children in many developing countries. But I hadn’t grasped how quickly that shift was…

The 20 Best Books of the Decade (2000-2009)

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:35:17 -0500

The 20 Best Books of the Decade (2000-2009):

Amidst a turbulent environment, a slew of memorable texts emerged in the 2000s: some fiction, some non-fiction, all worth reading and cherishing.

Finnishing What the Finns Started: EU Adopts a “Right” to Broadband

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:50:41 -0500

Finnishing What the Finns Started: EU Adopts a “Right” to Broadband:

IDG News reports that the European Parliament has negotiated a telecom bill that “now contains a new Internet freedom provision that states that access to the Internet is a human right of every…

Transparency, choice and control — now complete with a Dashboard!

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:16:27 -0500

Transparency, choice and control — now complete with a Dashboard!:

Today, we are excited to announce the launch of Google Dashboard. Have you ever wondered what data is stored with your Google Account? The Google Dashboard offers a simple view into the data…

Three Paradoxes of the Internet Age - Part Two

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:16:27 -0500

Three Paradoxes of the Internet Age - Part Two:

Individual perception of increased choice can occur while the overall choice pool is getting smaller

This gem from Whimsley makes the point - with extensive statistical modeling supporting the…

Congress locks radio stations, record labels into boardroom

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:45:36 -0500

Congress locks radio stations, record labels into boardroom:

Radio broadcasters and music labels are at each other’s throats over the question of whether radio ought to pay “performance rights” to rightsholders when it plays their music on the air…

Audio

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:34:45 -0500

"There are moments when one feels free from one’s own identification with human limitations and..."

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:52:51 -0400

“There are moments when one feels free from one’s own identification with human limitations and inadequacies. At such moments one imagines that one stands on some spot of a small planet, gazing in amazement at the cold yet profoundly moving beauty of the eternal, the unfathomable; life and death flow into one, and there is neither evolution nor destiny; only Being.”

- Einstein

David Hockney's iPhone paintings

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:01:28 -0400

David Hockney's iPhone paintings

Happy Monday! dha ka dhin na dha ke dha dha ka DHIN na dha ke...

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:07:38 -0400

Happy Monday!

dha ka dhin na dha ke dha

dha ka DHIN na dha ke dha

ta ka ta ke ta

Kevin Kelly on the New Socialism

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:43:51 -0400

Instead of gathering on collective farms, we gather in collective worlds. Instead of state factories, we have desktop factories connected to virtual co-ops. Instead of sharing drill bits, picks, and shovels, we share apps, scripts, and APIs. Instead of faceless politburos, we have faceless meritocracies, where the only thing that matters is getting things done. Instead of national production, we have peer production. Instead of government rations and subsidies, we have a bounty of free goods.

link.

Big Ideas panel in Brighton next Saturday: "The future of collaboration"

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 01:21:07 -0400

Big Ideas panel in Brighton next Saturday: "The future of collaboration"

Synthetic biology and evolution : The New Yorker

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:27:48 -0400

Synthetic biology and evolution : The New Yorker

RSS never blocks you or goes down: why social networks need to be decentralized

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 02:46:46 -0400

RSS never blocks you or goes down: why social networks need to be decentralized

Charles Bukowski's hatred of Mickey Mouse

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 02:46:45 -0400

Charles Bukowski's hatred of Mickey Mouse

RSS never blocks you or goes down: why social networks need to be decentralized

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:29:11 -0400

RSS never blocks you or goes down: why social networks need to be decentralized

Harper's Weekly

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:49:34 -0400

FOX News host Glenn Beck wrote that he had deciphered the secret code of the Obama Administration: “OLIGARHY,” he wrote on a chalkboard, pronouncing it “oligarchy.” Encouraged by Beck and fearful of socialist indoctrination, conservative parents planned to keep their children at home on Tuesday, when President Obama will encourage the nation’s students to do their homework. The U.S. unemployment rate rose to 9.7 percent and David Wahl, a 52-year-old employee at the New Flyer
bus factory in St. Cloud, Minneapolis, who sat behind Vice President Joe Biden when Biden insisted during a town-hall meeting that the company would benefit from the stimulus plan, was let go. Dozens of alpine cows threw themselves off a Swiss cliff.

Always so good.

Interview with author of Introvert Power

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:07:26 -0400

Interview with author of Introvert Power

A Casualty of the Technology Revolution - ‘Locational Privacy’ - NYTimes.com

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:07:25 -0400

A Casualty of the Technology Revolution - ‘Locational Privacy’ - NYTimes.com

The Rating Game - The Atlantic (July/August 2009)

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:41:43 -0400

The Rating Game - The Atlantic (July/August 2009)