Twenty years of posts on geopolitics, philosophy, media, investing and whatever else has my attention.
It’s a tough life but somebody has to do it. Seriously though – the trip was great, the boys and I had lots of fun stopping off at…
well… here we are. It’s 26/03/08, 5.14pm, I’m in my sister’s apartment in Melbourne, it’s a cold rainy afternoon outside and this is my last day as a…
Watched this tonight and it blew me away. I can’t believe I haven’t seen it before. BigDog is a quadruped robot created in 2005 by a firm called…
I’ve been having a discussion over email with a friend about Barak Obama, based on my post the other day where I said he’s just like Bush (for…
This week on TPN – discussions about photowalking, the future of social networking, the Bear Stearns financial crisis, nuclear energy, a $3 Billion Man, a reversal of the…
If you’ve seen the recent Hollywood blockbuster “Charlie Wilson’s War”, you probably think you know why the CIA decided to lend support to the mujahadeen in Afghanistan in…
I’ve been reading a lot about Socialism and Communism lately but that doesn’t mean I don’t appreciate the best things about Capitalism. This story I read this morning…
The title of this post is from a proposal I received for one of my outsourcing projects at the moment. I’m using elance.com to get a few things…
Jamais Cascio is a San Francisco Bay Area-based writer and ethical futurist. He joins me today to talk about our growing reliance on online social networks and the…
$200,000 is a lot of compensation for a shampoo. Perhaps she is a hair model or something and this prevented her ability to earn money? clipped from consumerist.com…