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Russell Beattie Notebook - Home
“After a week here, I’ve been writing down some thoughts on being back in the U.S. as I think of them (though while I couldn’t sleep the other night I thought of a ton more, but now I can’t remember them).”
So many good things happened to me while I lived in […]
Wired News: Keeping Track of John Poindexter
“Smith said he wrote the column to demonstrate the sense of violation he felt over his personal records being profiled by secretive government agencies.”
Linden Lab :: Welcome
“Explore a 3D online world lived in and built by its participants - a new medium for creative self-expression, social interaction, and fun, where you can be or do almost anything. You can fly. You can discover. You can create a masterpiece-or an empire. If you can imagine it, you can do […]
memigo : about memigo
Apparently a site for news junkies…worth investigating.
The Norwegian Nobel Institute
From Jimmy Carters Nobel speech:
“I am not here as a public official, but as a citizen of a troubled world who finds hope in a growing consensus that the generally accepted goals of society are peace, freedom, human rights, environmental quality, the alleviation of suffering, and the rule of law.
…We can […]
Antipixel | Blog | Big Deal for QT in Japan
“In coming weeks, Apple will introduce a new version of its multimedia delivery system, QuickTime 6, with support for 3GPP, or 3rd Generation Partnership Project — telecommunications standards for mobile systems. 3GPP is built on the MPEG-4 standard for the delivery of digital audio and video […]
How to Run a Good Conference (Aaron Swartz: The Weblog)
“Speech is a bad medium for communicating information. (This one is due to Tufte.) Speech can’t be stopped and rewound, it can’t be carefully examined, it can’t be slowed down, it can’t be paused, it can’t present complex concepts, and it’s really very low bandwidth. Just […]
Solaris reminded me of a recent article in Wired about religion and science.
Wired 10.12: The Pope’s Astrophysicist
It’s a story about the chief Vatican astronomer (apparently they have a whole department of physics and astonomy, mainly concerned with the formation of galaxies). Anyways this gentlemen was asked what if science answers all the […]
I saw Solaris on the weekend. It’s a remarkable film, haunting in a way and not what people would expect from a standard science fiction film.
For what it’s worth, I think the movie is about forgiveness; about our inability to forgive others and more importantly ourselves. I think it takes it […]
I’m back home in Vancouver. It’s been a long day. For some reason my hotel was host to about 300 kids from Ontario (I am getting old) who stayed up until I had to get up at six this morning (3 am Vancouver time) to get to Dorval. Basically no sleep. […]
I don’t get to see my Dad enough, he works a lot (it’s hereditary) and lives about an hour away from me. However every time I run into him he hands me an envelope of news clippings (neatly cut out of course) on a wide range of topics, mostly related to my business and […]
I’m in Montreal right now; I’m here to attend various Grunt Club related parties and am a guest of one of our first customers. I’ve never been to the dinner before but apparently they can be quite legendary, even though many use it to host their own parties the spirit remains in the event. […]
Antipixel | Blog | Plush Toy Gulag
“Life as a stuffed toy in this house is like life under Stalin during the Soviet era. When things are good, they’re very good.”
I finally saw Bowling For Columbine last night. Thanks for the invite Kevin.
Anyways its a good film, great actually, some deservedly tough moments when we’re shown the video footage of the Columbine massacre. I get the fear part of Moore’s thesis…I lived in the U.S. for almost two years, and […]