Gupta Option is where the policy work lives. Check out: * Winning the Long Peace on appropriate technology as foreign policy. * State In A Box – Identity Services Architecture on failed states and making biometrics safe for general use, particularly in bringing banking services to the very poorest. * Severe Pandemic Flu Strategies on [...]
Read more →Can’t tell you why yet, but it’s on now.
Read more →Basically, it’s this insanely great and very historic (134 years!) festival on the Westman Islands in Iceland. Here’s a nighttime shot. And here’s a daytime one. Note all the white tents. They serve a very similar function to theme camps, but each one holds about a dozen people, so it’s lots of small microclimates with [...]
Read more →Dr. Horrible is a really, really perfectly nerdy web TV show by the brains behind Buffy and Firefly/Serenity. For reasons that I’m foolishly going to try to explain, it hit me like a bag of hammers. Here’s Dr. Horrible’s problem. He wants the world to be a better place, and he’s willing to kill people [...]
Read more →“you will live and die on this farm, and you will never go hungry. but your kids are going to the stars.”
Read more →I gave ten years to sharpening the axe and weaving the noose I learned to wait with patience while the cogs of life spun to my desired settings You must treat the mind as a body to be cultured before climbing into space the delicate coordination of extraordinary and mundane is the key to opening [...]
Read more →The commercial hexayurt will live here.
Read more →Founder of the Hare Krishnas – surprisingly clear and lucid and direct. No mention (so far) of chanting Gournanga and being Happy. I’d never seen any of his material directly, only filtered by the organization, and he’s more impressive than they make him look.
Read more →http://ambidextrousmag.org/issues/09/ is the magazine link, and you can read our piece here (pdf): I’m very pleased with this piece. It really encapsulated a lot of what we wanted to say at a fairly minimalist length.
Read more →http://smari.yaxic.org/blag/2008/05/18/podcast-digital-freedom-as-a-catalyst-for-freedom/ Good stuff. I might do a bit of podcasting or vlogging later this year. It’s an important medium.
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