A Glocal Network of City-States?
This one should probably be in a fictive mode, maybe even in a science-fiction genre. In fact, I’m reconnecting with literature after a long hiatus and now would be an interesting time to start writing...
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How I Got Into Beer
Was doing some homebrewing experimentation (sour mash, watermelon, honey, complex yeast cultures…) and I got to think about what I’d say in an interview about my brewing activities. It’s a bit more...
View ArticleWar of the Bugs: Playing with Life in the Brewery
Kept brewing and thinking about brewing, after that last post. Been meaning to discuss my approach to “brewing bugs”: the yeast and bacteria strains which are involved in some of my beers. So, it’s a...
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Happiness Anniversary
A year ago today, I found out that I was, in fact, happy. Not that I suddenly became happy. It’s just that, at that moment, I realized that I had reverted back to my happy self. After about twelve...
View ArticleScriptocentrism and the Freedom to Think
As a comment on my previous blogpost on books, a friend sent me (through Facebook) a link to a blogpost about a petition to Amazon with the following statement: The freedom to read is tantamount to the...
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In Phase
Lissajous curve Something which happens to me on a rather regular basis (and about which I blogged before) is that I’ll hear about something right after thinking about it. For instance, if I think...
View ArticleWhat Not to Tweet
Here’s a list I tweeted earlier. Twenty Things You Should Never, Ever Tweet for Fear of Retaliation from the Tweet Police Lists. Too difficult to follow. Do’s and don’ts. Who died and made you...
View ArticleReply to Alex Gagnon’s Google Paradox
[Tried adding a comment directly on Alex Gagnon's Posterous blog, but it kept stalling. So I'll post this here, which may make for a different kind of interaction. Besides, I'd like to blog a bit...
View ArticleEnergized by Bret Victor
Just watched Bret Victor’s powerful video: Inventing on Principle | CUSEC Simply put, watching it was a lifechanging moment, for me. In some ways, Victor’s talk was deeply philosophical, though it’s...
View ArticleYoga and Community in Contemporary North America
Last night, Matthew Remski’s chapter on yoga “culture” served as the basis for a conversation on yoga and communities. Roseanne Harvey had invited some panelists and like-minded people to join her at...
View ArticleTrusting People
One of the most recent shows on “Radio Open Source” was on Craigslist (show aired February 7, 2006). ROS talked about Craigslist before, in the context of Katrina. Among the interesting comments in...
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Whereami
(It’s me, a couple of months ago.) Was editing some older entries with ecto to add categories and tags. Saw this old one (from late March, 2k5) which was meant as an introduction/blurb. Was teaching...
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Medici and Innovation
First encountered the notion of the Medici effect through this interview with Frans Johansson in Ubiquity, a journal frequently mentioned on the Humanist Discussion Group. A recent article about...
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Music, Food, Industries, Piracy
000ady6y (PNG Image, 200×125 pixels) Noticed it in Steal This Film. A very appropriate message. Process over product. Music is not a commodity. Food does not grow on profits. Blogged with Flock
View ArticleAfrican Ingenuity
Via BoingBoing. Who says Africans lack business acumen? (Actually, such methods of empowerment are quite common, throughout Africa. And many Africans are rightfully proud of being able to manage by...
View ArticleThey Dropped The Other Shoe
[Disclaimer: I’m not necessarily an Apple fanboy but I have been an enthusiastic Mac user since 1987 and have owned several Apple products, from an iPod to a QuickTake camera. I also think that...
View ArticleAnthro Geekery
Who said anthropologists were out of the loop? YouTube – Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us Web 2.0 in just under 5 minutes.
View ArticleHumanistic Sociocentrism
There must be a common term for this and it is certainly well-known. A kind of wishful thinking of the trailblazer type. A combination of utopianism, humanism, naïveté, forward-thinking, and...
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Banality of Heroism
Wow! I’m speechless! Open Source » Blog Archive » The Banality of Evil, Part II Well, ok. Not completely speechless. Not even one of the most insightful interviews I’ve heard in a long long while can...
View ArticleFair-Minded Anthropocentrism
As part of an anthropologist’s mission is the task, infrequently discussed, of determining what is “unique to humanity as a species.” Defining the human condition, we want to find that which is...
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