Article in Slate today about Genius, what it means, and how we use the label.  No real conclusions, but a solid quick read to start a discussion. How we use and abuse the word genius. – By Ron Rosenbaum – Slate Magazine

I generally associate the word ‘mob’ with negative things. Some would suggest this is intentional as the forces of ‘order’ strive to imprint negative associations to people gathering. Ah, that’s a topic for another day. To my post now, though, I am exposed to the term ‘mob’ more often, and am gradually lessoning the imagery […]

This guy is calling out all the environmentally oriented purchasers out there. A good piece on the economics of green purchasing. The “killing babies” part comes from the calculation of keeping third world babies alive per month versus the added cost of green technologies. Although that does bring up the point that saving babies rarely […]

I finally caught up with my Freakonomics Blog reading. I found the Q&A session with security guru Bruce Schneier to be the most interesting of the last 2 weeks. He answered a ton of questions, and gave very detailed responses, with lots of supplementary links. This is definitely not dry, techie/hacker security talk – Bruce […]

Google has become a standard activity in internet-enabled societies. Googling something is right up there with going for groceries, taking out the trash, walking the dog, and other things that almost everyone does, or is at least intimately familiar with the concept. That said, ‘Googling’ shows up as an error in this spell check. Didn’t […]

Warcraft teaches real life survival skills? For one Norwegian lad and his sister, it sure does! From Boing Boing: Swedish boy outthinks angry moose with Warcraft skillz. The comments indicate that the boy was Norwegian and not Swedish. I don’t know squat about World of Warcraft, so I can’t make any nifty insider comments, but […]

Slate Magazine has an article on Live Action Role Playing (LARPS) and a documentary that was made about one of the larger events, Darkon. The article is a good commentary on societal bonds and how people are not interacting with each other like they used to. Slate: Feel the Sting of My Foam Sword “But […]