Like we need any more evidence that the U.S. has turned into a police state, along comes this article about an innocent Nepalese man who has been in solitary confinement for two years in BROOKLYN, with no trials, no charges, and who has been kept in a 6×9′ cell with the lights on 24 hours […] Read More⇒
I’m attracted to this weird piece for so many reasons. It contains social networking, human connection, breach of trust, and one man’s story about how he is managing to handle (or not handle?) his life. It is the story of a man named Odin Soli who created an online persona named Layne Johnson and wrote […] Read More⇒
This article talks about how 8 Silicon Valley Bankers and 25 VCs are doing an exploratory trip to China to explore business opportunities. This to me seems like a serious pivot point in East/West VC relations. In the article, they note the changing attitudes in China about Western financing. This is something to watch. QUOTE: […] Read More⇒
I had heard about this technology before but here is an article that finally names this bizarre technology (FingerWhisper) where vibrations are sent through your hand so that when you put your finger in your ear, you hear sound. (ou know that funny phone symbol we make when we’re saying “I’ll call you” across the […] Read More⇒
If you were having a baby and the test showed that the baby would have Down's Syndrome, Tay-Sachs, deformed limbs, a cleft plate, deafness, dwarfism, skin disease, or any of a host of other known diseases, would you still have the child? (Link to the original story in the New York Times. Subscription required but worth it.) Read More⇒
The author of this blog-post comments on how this seems intuitively sensible, which I agree with. The more people I meet, the more different they are, the wider their world-views, and the more we interact, the more I feel that I can think “between the cracks” of the different knowledge domains. So the lesson here […] Read More⇒
Here is a somewhat interesting article on the small trend of authors opening up their manuscripts to collective writing and editing. Having just worked collaboratively with my colleague for the past three weeks using the great product called SubEthaEdit, I can say that this model REALLY needs to develop. I mean that in two ways: […] Read More⇒