Free Speech for the dumb


There's been a lot said about Turkey's wholesale blocking of wordpress.com, because of a few possibly libelous blogs hosted there. It doesn't interest me much, because unless the state-owned ISP and firewall is dismantled, there's not going to be free speech anytime ...

Mass customization comes to philanthropy

I'm kind of behind the pack on this, I only saw the ad for american express' members project yesterday, and the final round of voting closes on the 5th. It's a brilliant marketing maneuver from american express, as far as making people feel like there's actually some point ...

More Jesus in the Dashboard

via Matt, I'm again subjected to religious blathering in my wordpress install. In the interest of disclosure, I am agnostic. I find the discussion of origin myths, god, or the afterlife to be primitive and irrelevant.

One of the benefits of using open source software is supposed to ...

SiCKO

Michael Moore's health care film that he's been working on at least since i saw him speak at UW Madison 2 years ago is finally coming out.

on his site, he also has a proposal for american health care:

Every American must have full, uninterrupted health care coverage for life.
Private, ...

Humanity Lobotomy

This is an interesting video from the Network Neutrality movement, less for their rapidly developing martyr complex, than for their explanation of how previous media types (print, radio, etc.) have historically evolved from meshwork markets into hierarchic anti-markets. (I'm borrowing terminology from Manuel De Landa's excellent A ...