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Empiricism vs. human nature
Ah the David Brooks I've come to know and love showed up today: "...the current financial crisis — how so many people could be so stupid, incompetent a…
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Ghostery.com: Not Just A Cool Icon
David Cancel just created a wonderful privacy enhancing technology for Firefox---up there with Ad Blocker Plus in my view. In a simple and straightforward way,…
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Shmeat
I just created a group on facebook to discuss this topic further... I'd love to see a discussion arise over there. I must say, I don't like the term &q…
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Advancing meat subsitutes
In response to my prior post on the topic of meat substitutes, I received an email from Jason Matheny, who works with New Harvest, a great non-profit organizati…
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FCC Hearing Compilation
Stanford Reference Librarian and Archivist Sarah Wilson created this wonderful compilation of testimonies, statements, press releases, news coverage and other m…
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Devices As Themselves Social
Social networks have gotten a lot of play in recent years. What about social devices? I've been thinking about whether/how the nature of computer interfac…
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Teaching Reverence for Life
Thanks to my friend Tom Fee for sharing this piece by Albert Schweitzer... "No human being is ever totally and permanently a stranger to another human bein…
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Happy Public Domain Day - January 1, 2009 - new additions to unpublished public domain in the U.S.
January 1 is Public Domain Day--the day when new works around the world come into the public domain. Some countries, the term of copyright is life of the autho…
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Nobel Lecture by Martti Ahtisaari, Oslo, 10 December 2008
On this last day of a very difficult year for the world, I'd like to end the year with a speech from this year's winner of the Nobel Peace Prize: "…
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Web-Wide Cops
John Dunn, on the PCWorld web site: "The Internet needs to be globally regulated if it is to have any chance of stopping scams such as security 'scarew…
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Quito Enterprises Asserts US 5,890,152 on Boxing Day
Quito Enterprises filed a patent infringement suit in Florida against Netflix, Amazon.com, Yahoo!, Slacker, Pandora Media, Strands, Veoh Networks, Realnetworks,…
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The In Vitro Meat X-Prize
I have had a longstanding interest in non-animal based meat production. I do not believe humans will ever stop eating meat, but if meat could be made via stem…