From here:Â http://mashable.com/2014/02/12/rand-paul-obama-lawsuit/ Uhh.. from the American people, Rand… chill out. Everyone likes this, because privacy only exists when it serves *your* (more…)
We’re nothing but products or commodities. Humanity is dead. Long live humanity!
A friend of mine nailed why I have been depressed lately, about the nature of friends, relationships, business, and how they all coalesce in social media: I feel like a huge walking $ Dollar sign. And (more…)
Was the Nest buy overvalued? Google’s Internet for Things for Things.
No. Internet of Things. “An internet for things”. This is about google’s hardware struggles. Nest has some great designers (people heard of the ipod?), but it’s not about that. It’s about the other internet, (more…)
14 Tech Trends for 2014 from FastCo that aren’t uninspired, derivative “It’s the year of mobile” nonsense.
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3024464/15-tech-trends-that-will-define-2014-selected-by-frog  Anonymity, Disconnecting, Facebook unseated by Chinese, THE CONSUMER OWNING AND CONTROLLING THEIR DATA… (more…)
Illegal Prime Numbers & The Illuminati in reality were sorta cool at the start. Random Wikis!
Historically the name refers to the Bavarian Illuminati, an Enlightenment-era secret society founded on +May 1, 1776 to oppose superstition, prejudice, religious influence over public life, abuses of state power, and to support women’s education and gender equality.
My kind of people. Maybe I am one, and they’re so good it’s a big secret.
The Economic waste of Christmas: Does it impoverish? Does it destroy wealth?
Along with +PBS ‘ “The Economic Waste of Christmas” http://www.pbs.org/newshour/businessdesk/2013/12/the-economic-waste-of-christma.html & +Forbes ‘ Does Christmas Destroy Wealth? – http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamespoulos/2013/12/22/does-christmas-destroy-wealth/ I (more…)
Disparate thoughts – tech & losing our humanity, pressures of “stuff”, meaning/purpose & Moby Dick, Jefferson’s re-constitution, & Michio’s migration to a parallel universe
1) Studying attention & memory as it is effected by the technology & pace of modern culture. Being off-grid & in nature repairs our tech-hysteria & dependence: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/16/technology/16brain.html?_r=0 2) (more…)
Who is the *real* big brother?
This was in response to people complaining about automatic license plate scanners, which then ticket cars. People say it’s a violation of privacy. That’s just the dumbest thing ever. You are in a public (more…)
The Power of Adobe Photoshop, and a Plastic Vision of the Future Singularity… Augmented Humans seeking perfection.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/lifestyle/2013/10/watch-as-woman-goes-from-average-to-fabulous-in-37-seconds/ That video is nutso, because we’ve actually created a human image that doesn’t exist, and (more…)
Tiburon, California
Hi! I can’t believe you’re here! Â We love this place, and I am just one member of an amazing community that is coming of age. Â The landscape and atmosphere of Tiburon is changing, and we are finding (more…)