When Michael Moore made his recent documentary “Sicko”, he left out a segment because he thought no one would believe it. Now, through the power of the Internets, you can watch for yourself and discover the amazing infrastructure and services in Norway.
Posted by Chris in Government, Travel, World on November 27th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Now that’s what secret groups of talented artists and technicians should be doing! According to a Guardian article, a “cultural guerilla” group called Untergunther was recently cleared of charges related to breaking into a Paris monument and fixing its antique clock:
For a year from September 2005, under the nose of the Panthéon’s unsuspecting security officials, [...]
Posted by Chris in Culture, News, Oddly Enough on November 26th, 2007 | No Comments »
This is a cute article about how Hollywood gets it wrong yet again. This time with the world of insects and how, well, the social ones are really all female. I mean, must we anthropomorphize even our sexist gender assumptions?
via Feministing
Posted by Deb in Animals, Culture, Feminism, Film, Science, Sexuality on November 20th, 2007 | No Comments »
This is probably old news to all of you, but it’s good to get confirmation from developmental psychologists that electronic “educational toys” aren’t so educational after all:
Old-fashioned retro toys, such as red rubber balls, simple building blocks, clay and crayons, that don’t cost so much and are usually hidden in the back shelves are usually [...]
Posted by Chris in Education, Fun on November 19th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
IGN has a compelling interview with Ron Moore about the writer’s strike and how it affects BSG. It’s an eye-opening piece, to me at least. Suddenly it’s very clear why this is such an important issue for writers:
“I had a situation last year on Battlestar Galactica where we were asked by Universal to do webisodes [...]
Posted by Chris in News, Television on November 15th, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I was talking to my brother John the other day about how it’s commonly assumed that we know almost everything about science, so there isn’t much left to discover. Specifically, there’s this notion that new discoveries aren’t likely to overturn older ideas, because if so someone would have done so by now. I personally think [...]
Posted by Chris in Philosophy, Science on November 12th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Just a note to brag that the November 2007 issue of the British Interplanetary Society’s magazine Spaceflight: The Magazine of Astronautics and Outer Space features an article called “Grumman’s ambitious spider” about how Grumman tried to modify the Lunar Module to give it more flexibility and utility. The authors of this interesting article (which features [...]
Posted by Deana in Journalism, Science, Shameless Promotion, Space, Technology on November 10th, 2007 | No Comments »
OK, this time I’m the one who’s out of the loop. :) This weekend (Nov 10-11), San Diego revisits its very own BarCamp, and it’s shaping up to be even better than the last. (Better except in one regard: I can’t attend this time around.)
Topics so far include Rails, Twitter, college, marketing 2.0, online storytelling, [...]
Posted by Chris in Community & Activism, Events, Fun, Technology, Web 2.0 on November 5th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
As you can probably tell from the dearth of new material here, I’ve been a bit busy lately. I’d love to say I’m working on some exciting new project, but the truth is I’ve been sick, traveling, working, or combinations of the above. It has succeeded in making Jack a dull boy, so I’m going [...]
Posted by Chris in NaNoWriMo, Writing on November 4th, 2007 | No Comments »
