Category: The World


  • A day at NPR: [David Weinberger:] “There is an inverse relationship between control and trust.” The more you hand over control, the more trust you earn. True of media, business, government. He also said that trust is not a goal but an enabler: if you have trust, you can do more.

  • Some people call me a lush, so let’s say I was intoxicated and went to the restroom. The urinal talking to me? That alone would sober me up quite quickly. N.M. orders 500 talking urinal cakes – Yahoo! News: When a man steps up, the motion-sensitive plastic device says, in a woman’s voice that is…

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    Some people call me a lush, so let’s say I was intoxicated and went to the restroom. The urinal talking to me? That alone would sober me up quite quickly. N.M. orders 500 talking urinal cakes – Yahoo! News: When a man steps up, the motion-sensitive plastic device says, in a woman’s voice that is…

  • Wash. initiative would require married couples to have kids An initiative filed by proponents of same-sex marriage would require heterosexual couples to have kids within three years or else have their marriage annulled. … Under the initiative, marriage would be limited to men and women who are able to have children. Couples would be required…

  • Splat Originally uploaded by sneezypb. One of the reasons I like Flickr is its use of Creative Commons. I got this yesterday because I use the Attribution license, others are required under that license to ask how I would like my work used. So, Sean at the University of Florida is going to use this…

  • Moon men == bomb threat? Well, I expected Aqua Teen Hunger Force to bomb when I first saw it. So, thanks to the Boston police this media campaign which intended to be subtle and inexpensive is getting a tsunami of free media coverage. No matter the outcome of the two guys going to prison or…

  • Moon men == bomb threat? Well, I expected Aqua Teen Hunger Force to bomb when I first saw it. So, thanks to the Boston police this media campaign which intended to be subtle and inexpensive is getting a tsunami of free media coverage. No matter the outcome of the two guys going to prison or…

  • Moose from Utah transported to Colorado – Yahoo! News “I’ve never mugged a moose, but I guess they’re pretty wimpy once they’re on the ground,” Dolling said.

  • Early in the history of the WWW, people thought a document which did not have an inbound link, a link from some external location to the file, was private. Search engines looked for content on web sites in locations for which there was not a link already pointing. To truly respect the privacy of those…