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BLDGBLOG: Comparative Planetology: An Interview with Kim Stanley Robinson - (USA)
architectural conjecture :: urban speculation :: landscape futures
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/comparative-planetology-interview-with.html
ABC News: Lost or Found: GPS May Make Us Dumb - (USA)
Lost or Found: GPS May Make Us Dumb
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=5179471
WorldChanging: Award-Winning Solutions Journalism - (USA)
http://www.worldchanging.com/about/
What Unites Advocates of Speech Controls & Privacy Regulation? - (USA)
What Unites Advocates of Speech Controls & Privacy Regulation? [ pdf ] by Adam Thierer & Berin Szoka The Progress & Freedom Foundation, Progress on Point No. 16.19 Anyone who has spent time following debates about speech and privacy regulation comes to recognize the striking parallels between these two policy arenas. In this paper we will highlight the common rhetoric, proposals, and tactics that unite these regulatory movements. Moreover, we will argue that, at root, what
http://techliberation.com/2009/08/11/what-unites-advocates-of-speech-controls-privacy-regulation/
The Best Article Yet on Summing up Obama’s Health Campaign - (USA)
Well said Ms. Rabinowitz. Especially the part about being bullied. According to our President...you'll take your medicine and you'll like it...OR ELSE!! At some point, maybe he'll realize that he is supposed to be everyone's President and not just in place for the far left. Obama?s Tone-Deaf Health Campaign The president shouldn?t worry about the protestors disrupting town hall meetings. He should worry about the Americans who have been sitting at home listening to him. By DOROTHY RA
http://www.failedexperiment.com/the-best-article-yet-on-summing-up-obamas-health-campaign/
Dignity and Peace in the Middle East - (USA)
By John Hope Bryant Special to the World Economic Forum Leaders in the 21st century have to make a decision; light a candle, or curse the darkness. I choose to light a candle, and I also believe that there is a genuine hope for a family reunion of sorts, between the Middle East and the West. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. lit a candle, and used his intellect and charismatic leadership to spread love and bring people together, sparking the civil rights movement and the second American revoluti
http://www.johnhopebryant.com/john_hope_bryant_/2008/11/dignity-and-peace-in-the-middle-east.html
a broken system ctd. - (USA)
B y now we are all aware that should liberal health care reform pass through Congress we will face government-sanctioned euthanasia of the sick, elderly and mentally incompetent; we will sit in lines longer than the opening night of the third Lord of the Rings film just to see our primary care physician, who will then turn out to be a disgruntled DMV worker with a stethoscope replete with Gestapo uniform; and when we do receive “care” it will be so subpar as to be in fact harmful – far more h
http://www.ordinary-gentlemen.com/2009/08/a-broken-system-ctd/
Weekly Wisdom Roundup #40 (Links You Don’t Want To Miss) - (USA)
If you enjoy reading these weekly roundups I recommend signing up for the free weekly wisdom newsletter via our homepage (click here) . -Miguel Barbosa Founder Of Simoleon Sense Feature: Satyajit Das’s On Financial Remake - Remakes are rarely as good as the original but can sometimes add something, if only a nostalgic and sentimental longing for the ‘real thing’. Justin Fox’s The Myth of the Rational Market (2009; Harper Business) and Pablo Triana’s Lecturing Birds on Flying (2009
http://www.simoleonsense.com/weekly-wisdom-roundup-40-links-you-don%E2%80%99t-want-to-miss/
Falling acorns and other dire warnings - (USA)
Warning: Oil supplies are running out fast Catastrophic shortfalls threaten economic recovery, says world’s top energy economist Steve Connor, Science Editor Someone sprung this clown’s mainspring. The world is heading for a catastrophic energy crunch that could cripple a global economic recovery because most of the major oil fields in the world have passed their peak production, a leading energy economist has warned. Jesus, now I need to clean my shorts! What’s with these p
http://www.nerepublican.com/index.php/2009/08/09/falling-acorns-and-other-dire-warnings/
Obama: Beware 'you're on your own' society - USATODAY.com - (USA)
Presidential candidate Barack Obama, largely ignoring his Democratic rival for now, ridiculed likely Republican nominee John McCain on Wednesday for offering not one single idea to help hard-pressed homeowners facing foreclosure.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-03-26-obama_N.htm
Debt and the Fog of Numbers - (USA)
One of main reasons behind the vast confusion now reigning in the USA, our failure to construct a coherent consensus about what is happening to us (or what to do about it), is our foolish obsession with econometrics — viewing the world solely through the “lens” of mathematical models. We think that just because we can measure things in numbers, we can make sense of them. For decades we measured the health of our economy (and therefore of our society) by the number of “housing starts” recorded
http://whiskeyandgunpowder.com/debt-and-the-fog-of-numbers/
Why your online presence is important - (USA)
This November marks 7 years of active Internet usage for me. Considering that the Internet arose in the 1980’s I’ll admit I was a good few years late on the spot. That being said, I’m happy to note that I was just in time to see the internet rise to the status of core infrastructure in our society that it has now. That, combined with the Web 2.0 movement makes the internet a very interesting place to be. In recent years the Internet has become an increasingly democratic medium, with anyone wit
http://bytebaker.com/2008/11/30/why-your-online-presence-is-important/
Content Protection - (USA)
Amid the information explosion brought on by digital technology, some important, content industry business models are failing. Indeed, we are in the midst of what may be a failure of some of business models of content industries such the traditional newspaper industry; significant economic stress is also being placed on other content-oriented industries. It is fair to say that, while the user generated content machines (such as U-Tube) thrive, many commercial
http://www.ipinfoblog.com/archives/intellectual-property-content-protection.html
Fraudulent Defenders of Our Faith - (USA)
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http://www.bakrimusa.com/archives/fraudulent-defenders-of-our-faith
Is Email In Danger? - ReadWriteWeb - (USA)
Human history is one of progressive improvement in communication. From the 20th century mail was a fundamental form of communication. The invention of electronic mail (email) changed two ...
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/is_email_in_danger.php
Mike Todd on ekklesia.. Hybels, Bono and ReJesus - (USA)
08.11.09Mike Todd offers a reflection on one of the more prominent conversations at the Leadership Summit. Were these two godly men really hearing each other?I think Mike is right that we have a language issue here. I recall first reflecting on this about 2002 when I wrote, “Leaving the church to find the church.” It was a strange journey, but one that got me asking an entirely new set of questions.As for the rest, this is the same conversation again, still a good one - the church exists in this
http://nextreformation.com/?p=2847
Bruce Schneier's Security Matters: The Myth of the 'Transparent Society' - (USA)
Can you neutralize the harm caused by excessive government surveillance just by watching the watchers? No, actually.
http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/2008/03/securitymatters_0306
Is Your Advertising Agency a Practice or a Business? - (USA)
Is Your Advertising Agency a Practice or a Business? Vernon C. Kenny, MD When I was a kid, Doc Kenny was our family physician. His office was over a hardware store in our village. When I had an ear-ache or it was time for a vaccination, mom would send me off to see the doctor. I’d trudge up the stairs to his office with the five dollar bill she had given me to pay him for the visit. Although he was a lone practitioner, Dr. Kenny took good care of me and my family. As well as man
http://sugar-princess.com/?p=1523
Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Founder of Special Olympics, Dies at 88 - (USA)
Eunice Kennedy Shriver was one of those names and faces that dotted my childhood. The Kennedy family, through good times and bad, were and are, America’s family. The reasons that whole family intrigues us has been written about at length, but the fact remains Eunice Kennedy Shriver made a difference. Using her position and money she influenced the times in which she lived, and left a mark on the nation that will last far into the future. As the Kennedy family finds another sadness in their l
http://dekerivers.wordpress.com/2009/08/11/eunice-kennedy-shriver-founder-of-special-olympics-dies-at-88/
Japan “Hitting the Wall” - (USA)
Henry Blodget recently interviewed popular financial writer John Mauldin and geopolitical analyst George Friedman (See video: It is George Friedman’s comments that we find implausible. We should start by saying that, in general, we like Friedman’s work. His Stratfor is a fine resource for geopolitical analysis, and he is simply one of the best in the business for what he does. We’ve quoted Friedman before in the HS Dent Forecast (see March 2009 issue ), and even recommended his latest
http://www.hsdent.com/blog/2009/08/09/japan-hitting-the-wall/
Come to Perth in 2013 - (USA)
I heard today that the Society for New Testament Studies is coming to Perth, Western Australia in 2013. Here’s the deal: If you come along, I’ll show ya round. STUDIORUM NOVI TESTAMENTI SOCIETAS Society for New Testament Studies SNTS is an international society of New Testament scholars from around the world. Martinus C. de Boer, Secretary Dates of Future General Meetings by Martinus C. de Boer 8/10/2009 9:54 PM 2010 in Berlin — 27 to 31 J
http://cryptotheology.wordpress.com/2009/08/11/come-to-perth-in-2013/
Internet Evolution - The Big Report - Top 10 Ways Web 2.0 Sites Are Changing Society - (USA)
The next big leap forward in the history of the Internet is happening now: Internet Evolution (www.internetevolution.com) is a Web 2.0 online publication dedicated to gauging the impact of the Internet on every aspect of life as we know it. A cornerstone of the site is the Thinkernet - an interactive forum where an invited assemblage of the Internet's leading minds blog and exchange opinions, while interacting with our audience via message boards.
http://www.internetevolution.com/document.asp?doc_id=153587&print=yes
China urged to shift urban growth to supercities | U.S. | Reuters - (USA)
BEIJING (Reuters) - Shifting China's model of urbanization to favor huge supercities could boost per capita output, improve energy efficiency and help contain the loss of arable land, the McKinsey Global
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSPEK34992820080324?sp=true
And The Winner Is... - (USA)
The coming religious peace
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200803/secularism
Fraudulent Defenders of Our Faith - (USA)
There is nothing Islamic about a society infested with corruption, dehumanized by poverty, and riddled with injustices. It would be the height of hypocrisy, and mock our great faith to boot, for Khairy and Khir Toyo to claim the mantle of Islamic leadership if they are a part of the state apparatus that allows these evils to continue. THE CORRIDORS OF POWER M. Bakri Musa With Ramadan soon upon us, Muslims everywhere are caught up in a heightened sense of spirituality. That is the goo
http://anwaribrahimblog.com/2009/08/10/fraudulent-defenders-of-our-faith/
White America: Suicide or Murder? - (USA)
August 9, 2009 in Book Review, Jew Subversion, Whites | Tags: Anglo-Saxons, Culture of Critique, Darwin, Ethnicity, European Americans, Intellectuals, Kevin MacDonald, Lamarck, social destruction, WASP Suicide — Or Murder? Kaufmann’s Rise and Fall of Anglo-AmericaBy Kevin MacDonaldEric P. Kaufmann’s The Rise and Fall of Anglo-America presents the case that Anglo-America committed what one might call “suicide by idea”: White, Anglo-Saxon Protestants were motivated to give up ethnic hegemony by
http://incogman.wordpress.com/2009/08/09/white-america-suicide-or-murder/
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