I like this debate on the state’s secularism/religious neutrality but it’s too bad the PQ government has wasted the opportunity by introducing such a poorly thought out charter. They could have done something really valuable and instead came up with a biased piece of legislation, which does a bad job setting foundations for keeping religion at bay from unduly influencing the state. This CBC article was ... continue reading

I love these points. It’s so frustrating to hear/see “intellectual property” everywhere. Economics 101 For Newcomers To Discussion On Sharing – Falkvinge on Infopolicy ... continue reading

Good article. Facebook’s promotion is not so appealing here, and the best line, to me, is Madrigal’s conclusion “…we shouldn’t have to worship web products, or the people who make them, or the values they hold, to use the Internet.” What Internet.org’s Promo Video Cut From the Kennedy Speech It Quotes ... continue reading

Great idea: to build a library of utility that includes the necessary information to recreate all the bits of know-how we’ve developed throughout civilization. Even if stop using some things now because of, for example, new technology, we might still need to know how we once did it, for that day in the future when something unexpected happens. » Toward a Manual for Civilization – Blog of the Long Now ... continue reading

The headline of this story doesn’t do it justice. It’s a fascinating case of synaethesia, which the person acquired after suffering a stroke. Rare condition makes James Bond theme music ‘orgasmic’ for man who suffered stroke ... continue reading

Douglas Engelbart’s Unfinished Revolution | MIT Technology Review ... continue reading

Neuroscience & Philosophy: An Exchange by Jean-Pierre Changeux | The New York Review of Books ... continue reading

A short and intense look at the situation of the Lakota in the Black Hills. A Journalist Went Near Mount Rushmore To Take Some Photos. What He Found Changed His Life Forever. ... continue reading

Grant Hart (former Hüsker Dü) has made a new album based on William S. Burroughs’ unpublished “Lost Paradise” (based on Milton’s Paradise Lost). Hüsker Dü’s Timekeeper Finds A Lost Paradise : NPR ... continue reading

Save half of boreal forest from development, scientists urge – Politics – CBC News ... continue reading

This Goldman Sachs scheme has them pushing aluminum back-and-forth between warehouses to artificially delay its shipment and use, which in turn allows them profit in a commodities exchange. Equal parts astonishing and dismaying. A Shuffle of Aluminum, but to Banks, Pure Gold – NYTimes.com ... continue reading

From more than 10,000 years ago. » Oldest Record of Time-Keeping Found in Scotland – Blog of the Long Now ... continue reading

I found out about this too late but next year, next year, I’ll participate in Take-Your-Poet-to-Work-Day. Paris Review –“ Poets in the Workplace, Sadie Stein ... continue reading