Hai guyz, YOU are breaking the planet!
Screw that. Global warming is the biggest myth of our lifetime.
Science has pooped out countless articles in the past 10 years to say this! Here are a few snips.
Quote:
Originally Posted by 10 reasons why humans are not to blame
1] CO2 has not driven climate in the past and there [...]
I went on the internet last week, and found THIS!
No. Actually I’ve been keeping an eye on our friendly looking, sincere ruler of the world and so did a bit of scratching.
Has he lived up to his promises?
Example.
He promised that when elected he would bring the boys back home from the East cos they clearly [...]
Desmond Tutu on Ubuntu
Not a functional post, but a coffee table-like tribute to share for us open source idealogists our there
After hearing Marlon Parker’s use of social media rehabilitation mediums (mentioning Facebook, MXit and Blogspot) at a Nomadic Marketting evening on Wednesday night, to more effectively help (specifically) Cape Flats gangsters [...]
An old Washington Post piece by David S. Broder that popped to mind again
Try to read it in a broader sense than the scope projected below
People campaign for the presidency by talking their heads off. By the time the winner reaches the White House, the habit is so ingrained that it is impossible to shake.
The [...]
Not so much a masterpiece of reason and intellect, but a method that I wish to share with you all A method that I fear is often neglected or taken for granted.
Definition
I sat listening to Dan Gillmor talking at the GSB on Friday, briefly illustrating trends and prophecies about our changing world in [...]
This program truly is quite fascinating. In 2006 and 2007, the signup figures for SL shot exponentially for the sky as users spread the word of’t with the novelty of evolving into the semantic web. Dave and Max threw mention of this SNS megalith a few months ago – though I only recently decided to [...]
Excuse my manners for shouting out, but why have I not seen or heard of this amazing device? This is a slightly geekier scope than for what Huddlemind sets its eyes on, but I really think this is the ‘first’ of its kind to making big steps in good directions – especially so in retrospective [...]
Hot off this newspress today, we had an interesting distribution snub in the entertainment industry!
The IO reports that Cape Town-based watchdog group the Family Policy Institute has petitioned South Africa’s government to recall all music containing violent lyrics and all video games with violent content. FPI spokesman Errol Naidoo made the request, expressing the group’s [...]
Libraries step into the age of iPod (Reuters)
Exciting new developments, I see!
Library 2.0 and technology-information hybridisation is here.
The transformation between the old and new information system types over the years has been a shaky one, to say the least. Many have feared the coming of absolute erosion of old media from the face of the [...]
Netcom, PCCW networks are go for Olympics bandwidth
The secret Games
For those pondering about the Games, I have two see-saw contrasting articles for you. The Chinese are throwing large sums of money at infrastructure and propaganda, for which doesn’t seem to fully permeate to the public.
Is this a marketing error or just a softened trend of [...]
Here’s my chance to introduce myself more properer then
I tread softly into this blogging world. Blogging goes against my core values as an ‘academic’ with the slightest hint of intelligence, for which the I must point out that the co-creation (and subsequent participation) of scratchmytummy is a backwards shunt from this caustic [...]
The advances of social computing in a modern world of exponential technology growth has had a most profound effect on the way people live their lives today. I don’t think that these concepts are far-off intangibles that only concern field speculators and anthropologists; but rather a surging phenomenon that affects everyone around it. Our social [...]
I watch from my second story apartment window towards the main road. The newly darkened sky is the universal signal for the local scum to come out of hiding. My front door is locked. I see him – a long brown trench coat and a matching gardener’s hat. The way he walked was the sign [...]
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