It has been my plan to make several trips into the Yosemite wilderness this summer in order to visit some places I've never seen before. Most tourists have seen Yosemite “Valley” and many have seen Tuo … [Read more...]
Stop SOPA/PIPA
The SOPA and PIPA bills being considered in the US Congress allow blocking of domain names by someone who simply makes a complaint. Technically they apply only to non-US-hosted web sites that are … [Read more...]
Joi Ito on Innovation and Startups
I love Joi Ito's advice about startups. Mostly he is talking about understanding risk. I particularly focused on one section just after 9 minutes into the video where he talks about how it’s folly to s … [Read more...]
Pad Computing in Sci-Fi and in Real Life
The iPad immediately led me to think about how tablet computing is portrayed in science fiction. TV and movies - because that’s the only place you actually saw little beasties like these 10 or 20 ye … [Read more...]
Artificial Countries
I was browsing the history of Esperanto and discovered Rose Island, a micronation in the Adriatic Sea that declared itself the Republic of Rose Island in 1968. (And whose official language was … [Read more...]
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