May
25
Sarah McLachlan
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I was looking for a friend of mines site about his documentary on a young soldier in Iraq called ‘The World on Fire’ and I found Sarah McLachlan’s World on Fire site. Boy, I was really impressed. What a great thing to do to point out the comparative realities of life on this planet, and [...]
May
8
Well, they have gone and done it, and for one I will not be running to load Vista anytime soon. Microsoft has painted itself into a corner and once again will be the Evil Forces of Mordor in my book. The Triad of RIAA, MPAA and Sony have done their dirty work and [...]
May
8
The Future of Time Travel
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Well Folks, here it is ! The probable tangible future of Time Travel ! No, its true. To all you out there that follow the emerging field of Quantum Physics and all that that has evolved into, here is a new wrinkle in time: retrocausality. A new term for me, but with all [...]
May
8
Folksonomy / Web 2.0
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“There is a revolution happening on the Internet that is alive and building momentum with each passing tag”
Something I have been looking to articulate to people in my job quest that has come from directly from my recent conceptual leap in seeing the possible future how people interact with the web. Ellyssa Kroski [...]
May
8
Syriana
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One of the most thought provoking and topically relevant films I have seen in a long while. I am very impressed by the recent work of George Clooney. He has been showing by his personal casting choices to be morphing from a star to an actor who’s thoughtful choices as well as the [...]
May
8
Who Let the Cat of the Bag and Mpeg3
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Remember when mpeg was still in its early stages and the Recording Industry Association of America was still battling each other to figure out how come up with a standardized digital file format ? Then along came mpeg3, Netscape, Internet 1.0 the multimedia capable PC and the beginnings of Napster, leading to P2P networks. [...]
May
8
On the Road to Bagdad
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On a darker note, my research and follow-up on a disturbing media event led me down a very disconcerting road on the web. Last week there was a story that surfaced on the breaking news front of “Trophy Videos” emerging from a private military contractor’s employees website. This video documents mercenaries employed by [...]
May
8
So I was researching a very important thread the other morning and I stumbled onto FeralChildren.com. But it was blown completely out of my conscious mind by this outrageous website. The fact that information offered by this website has been quoted and referenced by so many other sites and blogs is testimony to the fascination [...]
May
8
EMR or electromagnetic radiation is something that has been on my mind for years. Controversy around the health threats of EMR have raged for years. As an early adopter of cell phones back in the early nineties the heat generated by long term cell phone conversations got me to get a headset long before in [...]
May
8
Power to Online People !
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More and more people are shopping on line. My research into the online luxury item market back in October pointed to banner year for 2005 Christmas sales of mid level luxury items: jewelry, fashion apparel, high end personal electronics. That being said there is still the pitfalls of any shopping experience, shysters, [...]