Sunshocked

When we imagine a creative act, we picture a prologue of frustrated brainstorming followed by a sudden spark of unrestrained brilliance. Such a story fails to celebrate the vital evolution of ideas from continued effort over time.

Richard Dawkins’ book “The God Delusion” is setting the fires of controversy wherever it’s even talked about. Why on earth would I want to set that fire myself? Don’t I have any sense?!

Sci-fi author and sustainable design advocate Bruce Sterling ends his run at Wired magazine. In his final column, he swears he’s a Futurist. I respectfully disagree. He likes people way too much.

Yesterday was my website’s birthday. Not this website, the other one. It turned twelve—a long, long time in web years. What has happened since 1994?

This weekend I finally bit the bullet and jumped into Ruby on Rails. The experience blew the dust off old memories of writing BASIC programs with my dad on our Commodore, which inevitably got me thinking about human evolution.

The legalization of marijuana is on the ballot in Nevada, stirring up the amount of controversary expected from a state whose biggest export is nothing because what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas. However, U.S. Drug Czar John Waters recently broke a Nevada law (which are hard to find) by actively campaigning against the dreaded [...]

Just the other day, I was having a discussion with a friend over whether she was anti-capitalist or post-capitalist. The latest issue of Adbusters comes to the rescue with a feature by Peter Barnes, author of Capitalism 3.0: A Guide to Reclaiming the Commons. His use of a software metaphor for a social institution had [...]

Don’t get me wrong, I’m a big fan of signal, but I think noise has gotten a raw deal. Modern science has a great formula for determining a signal-to-noise ratio with the intention of getting this number as high as possible. Yet, I believe that the optimal ratio may be lower than 1:0.