by cameron | Jul 5, 2007 | Uncategorized
I came across this terrific site this morning from a link off of Ryan Rasmussen’s blog. Ryan works for Levenger, a company that sells beautiful writing and paper products. Scott Sherman put me onto them recently.
Anyway, back to DIY Planner. This site has a range of PDF templates that you can print off to create your own daily planner instead of buying the endless refills for your Franklin Day Planner or that you can use to insert into your Moleskine (which is how I think I’m going to use it). What a terrific open source project. I have suggested to Tony Goodson that he invites the guy behind the site onto the Productivity Show.
by cameron | Jul 5, 2007 | Podcast, singularity
J. Storrs Hall is an independent scientist and author. His most recent book is Beyond AI: Creating the Conscience of the Machine, and he was the founding Chief Scientist of Nanorex, Inc, which is developing a CAD system for nanomechanical engineering, is currently a member of Nanorex’ Scientific Advisory Board, and is a Research Fellow of the Institute for Molecular Manufacturing. He is also known as the originator of the Utility Fog concept.
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by cameron | Jul 5, 2007 | Uncategorized
I was reading Chris Brogan’s 4th of July inspirational post (nice work btw Chris) and it reminded me of something I’ve been meaning to talk about on the show for sometime.
It’s my understanding that American “Independence” was mostly about the British East India Company deciding to buy itself a country to escape the pressures of regulation in England. It’s a little understood fact that for the first 12 months of US “independence”, the American flag was actually the BEIC flag. Check out this article. So the 4th of July is really about celebrating that moment when a corporation (one of the world’s first corporations) actually managed to buy itself a whole country to call it’s very own.
If you haven’t read much about the East India Company, I highly recommend it. It’s a fascinating tale. It was their products that were involved in the Boston Tea Party (they had a monopoly on selling tea to American) and there have been suggestions over the years that the EIC was involved in deliberately starting the whole debacle in order to escalate tensions.
by cameron | Jul 5, 2007 | Uncategorized
Thanks to Daniel Bowen for scanning it and for CathyE to mentioning I was in it! There’s another benefit of Twitter! Oh and thanks to whomever it was at MX who gave me the plug. You know you’ve made it when you’re in MX. All those people riding home on trains, looking for the latest news on Paris Hilton… I’m sure I’ll convert all of them to the goodness of G’Day World. Pretty awesome to be on the same page as the Nick Cave and Xzibit!
by cameron | Jul 4, 2007 | science vs religion
Nick Hodge (aka Uncle Nick from episode ##) sent me this link (edit 2014: link removed due to malware on the linked site) to a story about a couple of rapscallions who infiltrated Ken Ham’s “intellectually depravity: The Creation Museum.”
Ken Ham, for those of you who don’t know, grew up in my home state of Queensland (there’s something I don’t often admit) and who is one of the main forces behind the creationist movement in the USA. In May 2007 he opened his $27 million “museum” which depicts humans living alongside dinosaurs. It’s a theme park for fundamentalists to further warp the minds of their children.
The question I am left with though is whether or not this guy is the real deal or a fabulous charlatan? I have to admit that quite a few times over the years I’ve thought about how easy it would be to fleece the gullible. Whenever I see a Benny Hinn or a Ken Ham I have to wonder… are they deliberately preying on the weak-minded and the gullible? Ever see that Steve Martin film “Leap Of Faith“? Something like that. It would be so easy to do. Much easier than trying to convince the world to prefer rational thinking over mythology.
