Whether it is the accumulation of data about your life on Facebook, your online professional profile on LinkedIn, or the location tracking features of your cellphone, there has never been more data about you available. Some of it is “public”, some of it is definitely not. The people that operate
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Progressive Proselytizing: Tech on the Side: Apple’s tablet upgrade cycle problem
On this blog I like to cover the big issue facing our planet, issues dramatically affecting millions or billions of people: war, conflict, global warming, poverty, economics, rights and freedoms, etc. Okay, okay, sometimes I like to get bogged down in the personalities and gamesmanship of politics, but if I
Continue readingThings Are Good: Video Games to Help the World
A game based on the story Half the Sky puts players into a perspective usually different than their own: a young girl in the developing world. It teaches young gamers in the developed world empathy and what it’s like to be a young girl trying to make a living in
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Innovation of Loneliness – Film Short.
I’m not much for the social media, to be honest I prefer to be alone because the rest of you are so darn noisy. 🙂 Filed under: Social Science Tagged: Loneliness, Technology
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Weapons, Death and Top 5 Lists
We, as a species have had the capacity to end ourselves quite completely since the late 1940′s. We often have our greatest minds working highly creative ways of ending human life. What bothers me the most about this quick video is the amount of ingenuity necessary to bring these designs
Continue readingThings Are Good: Fairphone – A Phone Built With Social Values
Fairphone is a new phone built in an ethical way using (mostly) ethically sound sources. It’s a reaction to the ongoing problems with electronics manufactures who get minerals from conflict regions (think blood diamonds) and places with no labour protection. Until Fairphone, there was no way to get a phone
Continue readingThings Are Good: A Tricorder To Find Out What’s In Your Food
TellSpec is a new device currently being crowd funded that tells people what’s in their food – just like a Star Trek tricorder. It uses spectrometry to analyze the food it scans to find out if there any unwanted chemicals on food. The device can also scan food to find
Continue readingeaves.ca: Mozillians: Announcing Community Metrics DashboardCon – January 21, 2014
Please read background below for more info. Here’s the skinny. What A one day mini-conference, held (tentatively) in Vancouver on January 14th  San Francisco on January 21st and 22nd, 2014 (remote participating possible) for Mozillians about community metrics and dashboards. Update: Apologies for the change of date and location, this event
Continue readingScripturient: Blog & Commentary: Digital Attachments
It’s tough to lose a solider. Especially one like Dimitri. A fine sniper, with a good kill record. I had trained him for so long, raised him from a lowly private to sergeant, then to lieutenant. He was equipped with the best gear. His accuracy had improved to a deadly
Continue readingEclectic Lip: Wiki-immortality!
My August Canadian EV car sales stats update went up recently. Which was cool. Cooler still, I had a chance to wax poetic about sustainability, and my new-found optimism that we’ll avoid the worst of our dystopian horrors. I was invited to be a guest lecturer for an engineering course
Continue readingThings Are Good: The Age of Exploration Isn’t Over
Humans haven’t been on the Moon for over 30 years and as a result it’s easy to think that the “space age” is over and our exploration of the universe is over. I frequent space forums and this attitude is always present, and as a result of all this negative
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Nano UAVs #nlpoli
Let’s take a break from politics and have a look at the amazing way that technology has developed in the past decade. All those small radio controlled helicopters you see in the stores these days? Yeah well, they – or ones very similar – are already in use for keeping
Continue readingcmkl: Anyone still making fax machines? I found a buyer for you
Microsoft. I don’t usually comment on technology stories but this is Onionesque. Surely if Microsoft wants to regain its position as a technology leader/force to be reckoned with/etc etc it should be looking to use its money to buy itself back into relevancy, rather than picking up the only company
Continue readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: On the Road Again, For the First Time.
*Note of correction: After further reading Paul Godsmark’s blog with regards to the public transit impact of a self-driving car, I have corrected the post. My initial comment that his thoughts were off base was highly incorrect, due to a lack of inform…
Continue readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: On the Road Again, For the First Time.
Source: Huffington Post: Self Driving Cars are Coming to Canada Despite previously alluding to some of the topics we might talk about this week, I decided to go to a different route talk about something a little more abstract. There was news today that Canadian roads can expect to see
Continue readingLaw is Cool: Law is Cool 2013-08-27 14:51:25
The Ontario Bar Association is hosting a 1 day convention to learn about the technical and ethical issues involved in using technology in the practice of Law. Â Students members get in at practically half price, and being tech savy is a great way to set yourself apart from your cohort,
Continue readingThings Are Good: New Solar Powered Vehicles Seemingly from the Future
Last month an airplane known as Solar Impulse completed a fully solar-powered flight across the USA as a demonstration of current solar solutions. In the video above you can see why they made the flight and how the Switezerland-based company wants to change air travel. At the Guardian there is
Continue readingThings Are Good: Open Tech Forever Hardware Cooperative in Colorado
Colorado has a new permaculture and open sourced initiative taking shape and it look promising. The team is adding open source technology from hardware and software to a sustainable agriculture setup. On top of all of that they are also developing an open source business model! This is an exciting
Continue readingEclectic Lip: The Innovator’s Dilemma, Toyota edition
This car — yes, this car — has impeded Toyota’s electric efforts My post on how The Innovator’s Dilemma explains why Toyota lags in electric vehicles — and how Kleiber’s Law explains there’s nothing for them to worry about (yet), is now up on GreenCarReports. While the Tesla stats were
Continue readingEclectic Lip: A patent app mishap
I hope that if/when this patent application gets granted, they update the title…Â otherwise, someone at Samsung will have some ‘splaining to do!
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