Been listening to a lot of my old hardcore records and CDs, so we'll make this scrabble rabble Friday one of the slammers. One of Black Flag's old slogans was "What the fuck, fuck shit up!" Here they are doing just that, with early singer Ron Reyes singing, the great slammer "White Minority". Have a...

  Don't cancel your Mexican vacation, says the country's President... the shocking drug violence there will be all cleared up, you know, in 2012. Brittany Snow will appear in a new spinoff of Gossip Girl , a popular educational program. Another supermodel bites the dust... Gisele Bundch...

I've got a humour piece at McSweeney's today in celebration of Darwin's 200th. Here's a snippet: Joins the Ice Capades: Darwin is hired for small part in a Lion King-themed ice show. Takes skating lessons and practices hard. Soon nails both the triple axel and the triple lutz. Is fired from the show...

     In Washington, DC, members of feminist organizations of long standing and feminist members of the blogospere met face to face for the first time. Now comes the hard part: to see what each group might offer the other.     At the least, leaders of national ...

Ken Robinson's "The Element" gets launched in the UK this week. It's a superb tome, and one that every educator, employee or entrepreneur should read, if only to check that they themselves are in the right place personally and professionally. Do your natural talents and passions meet at the same tim...

Though she denies it, it appears that PM wannabe Tzipi Livni has already agreed to divide Jerusalem if she wins the election to be held in a week and a half. The Jpost reports: “According to the report, Olmert told US envoy George Mitchell that he and Livni agreed to divide Jerusalem, maintain...

The whole country will be connected to the web in 2012 via high speed broadband if Lord Carter's recommendations, released partly today and concluded in late Spring, are taken up. Given our current politique of grand public works to keep the country moving and the view that broadband infrastructure ...

Last month I had the opportunity to attend NextLab 2008: Designing Mobile Technologies for the Next Billion Users. It was a one-day conference at the MIT Media Lab involving projects from an interdisciplinary class there focused on how to apply cell phone technology to help create social and economi...

This is an update to my annual MLK remembrance. I really wanted to post "A Knock At Midnight"... the greatest of all the MLK sermons/speeches in my opinion. But I have not been able to convert this sermon from my analog tape to digital. Unfortunately I don't have a Cassette-CD converter. But there i...

THE FOUNDATION “We should never despair, our Situation before has been unpromising and has changed for the better, so I trust, it will again. If new difficulties arise, we must only put forth new Exertions and proportion our Efforts to the exigency of the times.” –George Washington...