February 2009
15 posts
“Canadian law professor Michael Geist is astonished at the comments. The...”
– “Canadian ISPs stand up for content blocking, throttling”
“Some members called it a new age of transparency, a bold new frontier in...”
– “A Tale of 140 Characters, Plus the Ones in Congress”
Watch“Are Violent Video Games Adequately Preparing Children For The Apocalypse?”
Water: Oil Sands v. Coffee →
“For one million Albertans to drink one 16 oz. cup of coffee each day, they collectively require the same amount of water needed to process 500,000 barrels of bitumen daily. This is just shy of 50% of the water required to produce Alberta’s daily output of 1.2 bpd.”
via @davecournoyer
WatchArrington says something worth linking to - so I’ll link to it. Watch entire this talk on print media’s role in an established digital world.
WatchShirky talks about coordinating group action, where value comes from, lump-of-labour fallacy, steam boats, failing and the theory of punctuated evolution.
Check out his book, and this talk on open-source everything.
via O’Reilly Radar
Watch“Barry Schwartz makes a passionate call for “practical wisdom” as an antidote to a society gone mad with bureaucracy. He argues powerfully that rules often fail us, incentives often backfire, and practical, everyday wisdom will help rebuild our world.”
Social Collapse Best Practices →
“Professor Fukuyama told us that history had ended, and so we were building a brave new world where the Chinese made things out of plastic for us, the Indians provided customer support when these Chinese-made things broke, and we paid for it all just by flipping houses, pretending that they were worth a lot of money whereas they are really just useless bits of ticky-tacky.”
How are you coping with collapse-anxiety? →