As a matter of authenticity, I’m thinking that it’s not quite all that because we haven’t fully grasped digital authenticity. Still, there is this feeling, and I think we ought to try to understand it. Why we prefer analog to digital ... continue reading

A Cloud Appreciation Society! Where has this been all my life? The Cloud Appreciation Society | Uniting cloud lovers around the world ... continue reading

It’s exciting to me, when someone (or some people) take a way of perceiving something (in this case cancer), that we’re all used to, and come up with a completely unexpected way of viewing it. This idea about cancer, at least to my layman’s understanding, is that sort of an unexpected view. Did Cancer Evolve to Protect Us? ... continue reading

I hope the trend of switching from GDP to some sort of indicator of wellness continues. This GPI sounds similar to Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness www.grossnationalhappiness.com/ or the Canadian Index of Wellbeing www.ciw.ca Beyond GDP: US states have adopted genuine progress indicators ... continue reading

This could be so great. Is It Happening Again? Twin Peaks Creators Mark Frost And David Lynch Tweet Simultaneously About That Gum You Like Going To Come Back In Style! ... continue reading

Short read on the patentability of DNA. Who owns your DNA? ... continue reading

Incredible what has been taking place in the Congo with so little Western media attention (compared to ISIS). Look around, ISIS’s acolytes are just apprentices at atrocity ... continue reading

About important records being transcribed, long ago, in order to have copies in Canada. Now these archived copies are being digitized (copied). The existence of these copies tell us a lot about a distinct portion of history that wouldn’t be captured from the originals. I’m fascinated at how we value the copies, and curious about what may follow this next generation of copies. Borrowing the Blocks: Nat ... continue reading

Did We Just Find a Cool Trillion Dollars for Green Energy Projects? by Daniel Kammen and Felix Kramer « The Berkeley Blog ... continue reading

I followed the sample to listen to one of these, which tells a tiny synopsis of the country. This is such a good idea, I wonder if some had music too. Talking stamps: Tiny vinyl record postage stamps that were playable, 1972 ... continue reading

This reminded me of John Livingston (http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2007/04/08/the_greatest_environmentalist_youve_never_heard_of.html). Anyone thinking about conservation or its arguments ought to check out the John A. Livingston Reader http://books.google.ca/books/about/The_John_A_Livingston_Reader.html?id=WyMNGHanMOsC&redir_esc=y Green modernism would kill off the wilderness –“ Brandon Keim &# ... continue reading

The Awful Reign of the Red Delicious ... continue reading

Excellent project: Future Library. A forest was planted in Norway to supply paper for books that will be added to a library in 100 years. Every year from now ’till then, a writer will provide a new text for the library, which will be published in 2114. The project is the brainchild of artist, Katie Paterson, and I read about it in this CBC article about Margaret Atwood (the first author to provide a text for ... continue reading