I’ve been floating a template law (called “Sustainable Opportunities for Rural Afghans Actâ€) for over a year now.  I’ve sent copies to my representatives in Congress, to the President, and to various NGO and para-governmental acquaintances.  I expected silence from the chief executive, a form letter from my representative (Hello, Joe Barton), and a bit […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCDQqEQdD6E I took a trip down to L’America / To trade some beads for a pint of gold / I took a trip down to L’America / To trade some beads for a pint of gold / L’America, L’America, L’America / L’America, L’America, L’America C’mon people, don’t ya look so down / You know the […]
There is an evolutionary war going on around the world, one fought between the existing centralized networks and the decentralized web. It is a tug of war between a centralized system of hierarchal control systems and a vast, unstructured web in which every device is equally a router, a server, and a terminal. It’s a […]
an Interview with Richard Doyle, author of Darwin’s Pharmacy: Sex, Plants and the Evolution of the Noosphere Books that offer novel perspectives on psychedelic drugs and evolution are a rarity; and those that enclose densely complicated, multiperspectival themes in language that virtually leaps about with acrobatic joy are rarer still. And perhaps rarest of […]
The future will not be a monopoly of the current superpowers, but lies in the hands of tech-savvy youth from around the world, trying desperately to survive at all costs in an increasingly asymmetrical world. Imagine a young African boy staring wide-eyed at the grainy images of an old television set tuned to a VHF […]
Up every evening ’bout half eight or nine/I give my complete attention/to a very good friend of mine/He’s quadraphonic/he’s got more channels/So hologramic, oh my TVC15 I brought my baby home/She sat around forlorn/She saw my TVC15/My baby’s gone/She crawled right in, oh my/She crawled right in my/So hologramic, oh my TVC15/Oh, so demonic/oh my […]
“Now, to some extent, we’re all Part Man, Part Machine, All Cop.” Some movies ought to be left alone. Not because they’re no longer relevant… but because they’re too relevant. Jose Padiliha’s planned 2013 reboot of Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 masterwork Robocop is one such transgression of cinematic and historical decency. In 1987, Robocop was science fiction. Now, […]
In a post-chaos magick and post-postmodern world, folks have a lot of freedom.  Freedom is a good. But is freedom an essential or ultimate good? We wonder. As is the case with any tool, freedom can be used for good or ill effect. Hammers can bang to build or to destroy.  We’re free to destroy […]
A packed house of over 5,000 software developers watched as Apple’s Steve Jobs introduced the latest operating systems for the Mac computer and for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch at the recent Apple World Wide Developers’ Conference 2011. He also talked about a new service, iCloud, which stores content on remote servers and makes synchronization […]
I’m the man with the lightbulb head/I turn myself on in the dark/I’m the man with the lightbulb head/I turn myself on for a lark And how’s about you, my pretty one?/Do you still roll and dream of bees?/How’s about you, my pretty one?/Do you still dream of bees? I’m the man with the lightbulb […]
