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Ten Billion Voices

Sunday, February 5th, 2012
Just plain weird, Philosophy, sociology | No Comments »

Children rest their faith in family; To hold their trust in words so bold; Show the path of life beneath us; A shelter safe from wind and cold. But age becomes the predator A war between what is and was, No kindness, fear, or place to bind us A history unkind to fatal flaws; The [...]

Life Long Learning

Thursday, November 24th, 2011
Education, Philosophy, sociology | No Comments »

What I’ve come to realize is that there are some lessons that just can’t be taught. They need to be experienced in order to understand the truth of the matter. The knowledge to be gained is context sensitive and as such there is no amount of formal academic training that will prepare you for the [...]

Here’s to the Future

Sunday, September 25th, 2011
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The future is composed of three separate and distinct properties: those manifestations of the universe that occur whether we as humans exist or not, those manifestations of the universe that are the result of the aggregation of individual choices by all life, and the act of free will to make a choice when confronted by [...]

Social Injustice

Sunday, July 17th, 2011
Ethics, Law, Politics, sociology | No Comments »

Cheap solutions are not necessarily the best solutions especially when the problem trying to be solved is mired in the complexity of the human condition. I refer to all of these shenanigans going on with News Corp. The general population has a right to be angry about what has been going on. However the rash [...]

Second Life’s 8th Birthday Party

Thursday, June 23rd, 2011
sociology, Virtual Worlds | No Comments »

I’m not sure whether to be really impressed or really disappointed. Here is the good part: The amount of creativity in Second Life is constantly improving. More and more we are seeing some very innovative designs considering the current technical limitations. Here is the troubling part: We’ve seen most of this stuff time and time [...]

Sequels

Friday, June 3rd, 2011
Marketing, sociology | No Comments »

Some things just shouldn’t have sequels – especially one off commercials and viral videos that really make you smile the first time you see them (and the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, …. :). However they lose something in the translation once they start to be serialized. To a large extent I think this has to do [...]