It's really tragic that religious groups in this country make it so politically…

It's really tragic that religious groups in this country make it so politically suicidal for Americans to come forward and admit that they don't believe in a higher power. As a result we get almost every politician feeling like they have to pander to church-goers just so they don't get shouted down by the [...]

Rick Mercer nails it – it's time for more than "It'll get better&qu…

Reshared post from +Bob Goyetche Rick Mercer nails it – it's time for more than "It'll get better"

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Steve Jobs proves himself to be a huge hypocrite

In the 1994 interview clip below where he discusses the Macintosh, Steve Jobs quotes the line from Picasso where he says "Good artists copy, great artists steal." Jobs then goes on to say, that "we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas."

As I said in a previous post about Jobs being [...]

Ideas are not property

In the days before the G8 summit in France last week, French president Nicolas Sarkozy decided to invite influential people from the technology and content fields to discuss the role of the internet in society in a forum dubbed eG8.  Unfortunately what Sarkozy had in mind was less of an open discussion on [...]

Can a lasting peace ever truly be achieved…

…between the birds and the pigs? Will we ever be able to return to work?

Probably not!

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The uncanny valley and racism

This week’s edition of On the Media features a segment discussing the concept of the “the uncanny valley.” The idea is that if you have a representation of a human that is 50, 60 or even 95 percent correct, people will have no problem recognizing that image as non-human and accepting it.

However, as [...]

Video: Life size mousetrap at Maker Faire Detroit

One of the highlights at the Maker Faire Detroit this past weekend was the life-size mousetrap. Mark Perez spent 15 years building this 50 ton life-size version of the board game. It’s a classic Rube Goldberg device on a huge scale. Check out the video.

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The Bush disaster inspection

Bush Tours America To Survey Damage Caused By His Disastrous Presidency

Along with the Daily Show and Colbert Report, the Onion is perhaps the best source of political news in America today. The unfortunate irony is that none of the three are actual news sources. While all three are brilliantly funny, the truths [...]

Farewell to a truth-teller

One of the greatest truth-tellers of the 20th century  died last night when George Carlin succumbed to heart failure. Carlin was perhaps of the funniest humorist of our time but he was much more than a comic.  He held up a mirror to the world to expose the hypocracy and absurdity of modern life.  [...]

BookMooch

Do you have too many books laying around that you have already read? Then go check out BookMooch. It is a site created by John Buckman, the founder of MaganTune. It is an online book swap site. You log on create an account and enter a list of books that you want to get [...]