The scariest threats are the invisible ones
Three items that feel thematically related to me: I've been concerned for a decade or so about the possibility of...
Some notes on Card
Some notes toward the blog entry that I'm probably not going to manage to write about Orson Scott Card and...
Musing about cutting back on Facebook
Short version of this post: I'm cutting back on Facebook time, so if you want me to see something there,...
Giving MIT access to your email
NPR reported today on Immersion, a project from MIT that shows you a graphical view of your email connections to...
Tired
And just like that, another three weeks have gone by since my last substantive blog entry. And I'm not sure...
Hidden speech of the powerless and the powerful
A while back, someone pointed me to a book called Domination and the Arts of Resistance, by James C. Scott....
I still exist
I seem to have mostly dropped off this blog for for the past two or three weeks, and I hadn't...
A song of hope: “Somebody Will”
Sumana told me last night about a lovely wistful-but-hopeful a cappella song about working in small increments toward a big...
Small adventures
I'm finally reading Comet in Moominland. (I never read the Moomin books as a kid, but friends have been recommending...
Star Trek science
I've seen a couple of people complain about the new Trek movies not being very scientific, which led me to...
Made with Paper
I've been really liking an iPad sketching app called Paper. It's not a full-fledged Art Application; for example, it doesn't...
Group discussion can result in extreme views
In 2000, the Yale Law Journal published a fascinating article by Cass R. Sunstein titled “Deliberative Trouble? Why Groups Go...