This is how I sometimes feel…My mind isn’t going—so far as I can tell—but it’s changing. I’m not thinking the way I used to think. I can feel
Kiva is a web site that helps facilitate micro-credit loans to entrepreneurs around the world. (As always, Wikipedia has more information about this organization if you're interested.) Shea
Spectra is a new visual news reader from MSNBC. I haven't played around with it much but it looks cool, mostly because the news spins in a circle
I got the following two sites from Barb J. She sent “The Story of Stuff” last Christmas and the “Garbage Dump Reality Show” one a couple months later.
Some eye-opening photos and text from the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
[Edit: Here's a post I did on an Ask MetaFilter thread on the same subject.] Talking about some of the most useful sites online during the past three
A couple copyright-related stories that warm the cockles of my Canadian heart…While the inclusion of China and Russia on the “Priority Watch List” isn't surprising, the report also
Amy Jo Ehman and her husband recently spent a whole year eating nothing but Saskatchewan-produced foods. Her year-long experiment is over but she's continued to buy (mostly) from
Ross Dawson, a business consultant who tracks different customs, devices, and institutions on what he calls an Extinction Timeline, predicts that libraries will disappear in 2019. He's probably
U2's manager, Paul McGuinness, recently came out heavily against Radiohead and file sharing in general. If you know U2's position on copyright, that's probably not a big surprise.
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