How B.C. became a world crime superpower : Canada : News : Sympatico / MSN – Annotated Maclean’s will no doubt get trashed by all the usual suspects for this article, but there’s a lot of truth in it. The underground economy, the black market, the “cottage industry” that takes on the mantle of natural […]
Last Thursday evening (May 15), VIATeC hosted its annual awards ceremony to honor local companies in the high tech sector. There’s one video from that event, which anyone interested in Victoria’s economy must watch: Clayton’s speech at the Vancouver Island Advanced Technology Center Awards (click to watch the video, Youtube). The Clayton giving the speech […]
Edit/update (8:12 pm): see end of post. Second update (May 22/08, 7:30 am): see end of post. Here’s something that’s rather upsetting, and totally contrary to 21st century solutions to political discourse. There’s a new site in Victoria that calls itself Victoria 2020, which in turn happens to copy the name of an already existing […]
The Big Sort – Bill Bishop w/ Robert G. Cushing – Book Review by Scott Stossel – New York Times – Annotated Informative review of Bill Bishop’s new book, The Big Sort. It’s intriguing to juxtapose this to the Knute Berger article that discusses transumerism, which I also bookmarked today. It’s almost as if two […]
Musical interlude for this holiday Monday…. I realize that Hypnotized by Fleetwood Mac (here on YouTube) is about something as stupid as UFOs & paranormal shit, but …oh man, I just LURVE this song (words & music)… I can still remember where I first heard this song: in somebody’s suite (bed-sit) somewhere in Fairfield, a […]
“Pay your voluntary carbon taxes: Move into the fashionable high-rise city,” by John Barber (globeandmail) Barber’s article links the ideas expressed around the demise of suburbs due to rising fuel costs, the benefits of densifying the cities (by building up, not out), and discussions around carbon taxes. “Meanwhile, the free market is applying its own […]
Maggie Tsai of Diigo has kept the Diigo community up to speed on her and the Diigo team’s experience of the recent earthquake in Sichuan province. Diigo is headquartered in Reno, Nevada, but also has a development team in Chengdu. Maggie herself has been traveling in the area, and it has been reassuring to hear […]
The Stupidity of Dignity, by Steven Pinker This is a great essay by Steven Pinker, which skewers the conservatives’ “latest, most dangerous ploy,” namely their “defense” of “dignity.” Pinker proceeds from bioethicist Ruth Macklin’s 2003 challenge to the conservatives, her essay, “Dignity Is a Useless Concept.” From his essay: The problem is that “dignity” is […]
At The Churchill Club: The Top 10 Tech Trends (Tech Trader Daily – Barron’s Online) – Annotated An article by Eric Savitz that sums up the panel presentation by Steve Jurvetson, Vinod Khosla, Josh Kopelman, Roger McNamee, Joe Schoendorf, and Tony Perkins on the top 10 tech trends to be aware of. Lots of buzz […]
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