Discovered on October 11, 2008
Why We Can’t Imagine Death
Discovered on October 10, 2008
curiosity. relinquishment. lightness. evenness. argument. empiricism. simplicity. humility. perfectionism. precision. scholarship. and the void.
Organizing Our Marvellous Neighbours
How to Feel Good About Canadian English
Discovered on October 9, 2008
Does the free market corrode moral character?
A Templeton Conversation — Leading scientists, scholars, and public figures weigh in on “Big Questions.”
Discovered on October 7, 2008
An exploration of piracy from the printing press to the internet. (44 minute documentary)
Discovered on October 4, 2008
Fooooooos: Shannon won us a Foosball table at last night’s social.
Above, a new way to explore Flickr use Rainbow vomiting pandas.
Discovered on October 2, 2008
Snowflake on $5 from this Macro Currency Flickr set.
World Food Crisis & Food Security Conference, University of Manitoba
Oct. 8-10, 2008 — Open to all and free of charge.
Corporate Initiatives on Campus
“Water fountains are becoming an endangered species on university campuses across Canada. That’s one of the findings of a national on-line survey, designed to document the commercial and corporate presence on Canadian campuses.”
Discovered on October 1, 2008
On Saturday Google and I shared birthdays. Today is NASA’s 50th.
The above photo was taken 8 years before the inception of NASA. It shows the first rocket launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida in July 1950.
If you search via the Google link I’ve provided you’ll be time-warped back 10 years.
Nasty as they wanna be? Policing Flickr.com
“People become disassociated from one another online. The computer somehow nullifies the social contract,” she says. In other words, people sometimes go nuts amid the anonymity of the Internet.
Discovered on September 29, 2008
Discovered on September 26, 2008
“I believe that for people who love music, the desire to share it is innate and crucial for music itself. When we find a song we love, we beckon our friends over to the turntable, we loan them the CD, we turn up the car stereo, we put it on a mixtape. We do this because music makes us feel and we want someone else to feel it, too.”
Discovered on September 24, 2008
Suzanne Vega talks about remix culture, being “the mother of mp3”, and of course, Tom’s Diner.