Bruce Sterling’s State of The World 2009 is one of the most amazing things I’ve read online in a long time. It touches on politics, economics, environmental/global warming, humans/social topics, and The Commons/Copyright. Some of it was really scary, some really exciting, some really interesting. All of it, however, was different to anything else I’d [...]
Everywhere, I’m bombarded with either advertising or sterility. Where’s the real? Where’s the human? Where’s the living? This post looks at both sides under the microscope, with photos along the way. It also offers answers to bunk reasons, and puts forward alternative scenarios.
Most shopping centres now have TV’s above escalators playing ads that no one [...]
A few months, and several hundred visitors ago, I launched a Free Lunch in the About on my homepage.
Today Isadore from Child Soldiers, sent me a tweet;-
From there we jumped onto mail, and it turns out I indeed owe her a lunch. It also turns out there was a hidden hand at play here. Again, [...]
About 2 months ago, thanks to a reminder from Gavin, I made a micro-loan using Kiva, to Vu Thi Tuyet, in Vietnam to buy supplies for her farm. Tonight, I got an e-mail(below) letting me know that she has repaid the investment. That means our money has been spent, she’s covered her costs, and more [...]