There's a new, seriously cool feature currently being tested on Google, called Google sets. You name a couple of items and Google will attempt to expand that and find more items matching your examples.
Starting with "Bill Clinton" and "George Bush" might give you a set of american presidents while "apples", … Continue Reading ››
All you need is… Love?
I'm currently reading Tor N?rretranders' latest book "det gener?se menneske" (The generous human). It's all about how generosity and altruism can exist, in a cruel, Darwinistic, dog-eat-dog world. The answer seems to be that the the two basic mechanisms of Darwinism, natural selection and sexual selection, actually favour generous individuals.
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Given the right circumstances, from no more than dreams, determination, and the liberty to try, quite ordinary people consistently do extraordinary things. - Dee Hock
Ken MacLeod
Ken MacLeod is the greatest living Trotskyist libertarian cyberpunk science-fiction humorist, and there's a great interview with him here.
I've read most of his books, and they're excellent. My favourite detail is a company that's bought the ex-soviet nuclear arsenal, and use it to rent protection to countries that don't have nuclear … Continue Reading ››
I've read most of his books, and they're excellent. My favourite detail is a company that's bought the ex-soviet nuclear arsenal, and use it to rent protection to countries that don't have nuclear … Continue Reading ››
Movie review: Startup.com
The makers of this brilliant documentary got permission to follow the rise and decline of internet startup govworks.com VERY closely. We're there as the idea slowly takes form. As the first rounds of financing are secured. We cheer as the company grows, and the future looks rosy. And we're very much there as … Continue Reading ››
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Book review: An unused intelligence
There are many different theories about learning, but not a single one of them states, that the best way to learn, is to sit passively on a chair, while a teacher talks about the subject in question. No theory ever in the history of the world has claimed it, and yet this is how schools, … Continue Reading ››
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I hear people everywhere saying that the trouble with our time is that we have no great leaders any more. If we look back, we always had them. But to me it seems that there is a very profound reason why there are no great leaders anymore. It is because they are no longer needed. … Continue Reading ››
Online comic: Red meat
Red meat is weird, wacky, gruesome and black. Here are a few of my favourites: Ball bearings in the butter tub, the white-hot cure for sticky valves, drool string ukulele, apocalypso facto or the ebullient egg-sac of ennui.
Profit for nonprofits
I read about Pioneer Human Services in a book, and it blew me away. They operate a succesful company that employs among others ex-convicts and drug addicts - the people who most need jobs, but usually can't get them. They also provide housing, training, counselling and other services. And most of … Continue Reading ››