A humanist future: Now that God is dead: printer friendly version
A humanist future: Now that God is dead: printer friendly version: God is dead. Even the confident religions know this. When their god was overwhelmingly alive he did not permit them to mingle with the followers of other gods: Now they come together to increase the volume of their protests against the noisy indifference of […]
Read MoreOA library of indigenous knowledge
OA library of indigenous knowledge: T. V. Padma, Digital library to protect indigenous knowledge, SciDev.Net, January 10, 2005. Excerpt: ‘South Asian countries will create a digital library of the region’s traditional knowledge and develop laws to prevent such knowledge being misappropriated through commercial patents. The plan was announced at a two-day workshop held in Delhi, […]
Read MoreGrowing Up Global – written road blog
Growing Up Global – written road blog: “The writers represented here are the “privileged homeless,” according to Pico Iyer, whose brilliant, witty essay opens this collection by those who remember growing up as foreigners with families always on the move. Army brats, missionaries’ children, diplomats’ children, or those whose parents just couldn’t stay put, these […]
Read MoreEngineers on TLDs
Engineers on TLDs: “ Engineers on TLDs: Do You Want Me With Fries? on CircleID by Vittorio Bertola: This is why engineering solutions are not carved in stone, and young engineers have always been eating up old engineers since gave engineering to the world. That’s not because the old solutions were better than the new […]
Read More:::: open ::::: The Digital Artisans Manifesto
:::: open ::::: The Digital Artisans Manifesto: “We are not the passive victims of uncontrollable market forces and technological changes. Without our daily work, there would be no goods or services to trade. Without our animating presence, information technologies would just be inert metal, plastic and silicon. Nothing can happen inside cyberspace without our creative […]
Read MoreUNESCO Free Software Portal
UNESCO Free Software Portal: The UNESCO Free Software Portal gives access to documents and websites which are references for the Free Software/Open Source Technology movement. It is also a gateway to resources related to Free Software. http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=12034&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html (Via Information Policy.) ——- this could be handy.
Read MoreCan You Retire on One Meal Per Month?
Can You Retire on One Meal Per Month?: “ Angry Bear has an interesting post on the further decline in the US savings rate (go read it) which contains this arresting statistic: The personal saving rate fell to just 0.2% of after-tax income in October. That means that an average family that earns $75,000 per […]
Read Morefrontline: the persuaders: neuromarketing | PBS
frontline: the persuaders: neuromarketing | PBS: “But 30 years after the commercials debuted, neuroscientist Read Montague was still thinking about them. Something didn’t make sense. If people preferred the taste of Pepsi, the drink should have dominated the market. It didn’t. So in the summer of 2003, Montague gave himself a ‘Pepsi Challenge’ of a […]
Read Morefrontline: the persuaders: neuromarketing | PBS
frontline: the persuaders: neuromarketing | PBS: “But 30 years after the commercials debuted, neuroscientist Read Montague was still thinking about them. Something didn’t make sense. If people preferred the taste of Pepsi, the drink should have dominated the market. It didn’t. So in the summer of 2003, Montague gave himself a ‘Pepsi Challenge’ of a […]
Read MoreAmateurs and professionals
Amateurs and professionals: “The distinction between professionals and amateurs is one that’s so familiar today as to seem perfectly natural. Professionals are serious, amateurs are dilettantes; professionals know what they’re doing, and have credentials and training, amateurs don’t; professionals get paid, amateurs are hobbyists. Of course, in a few fields there are exceptions to the […]
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