I hadn’t heard of Owen Barfield before last month. Based on an interesting quote and a recommendation that he has a “unique epistemology”, I picked up a copy of “Saving the Appearances“, and just finished reading it.
It turns out the book isn’t really an epistomology, but rather a treatise on the author’s opinions about […]
The blogosphere is way behind the MSM in reporting the explosions at the Detroit chemical plant. The location is not that far from DTW airport.
My first thought was of Detroit’s Bhopal (well, mostly steel, but still some chemicals), Zug Island. It’s the year 2005, and there is even a musical group of relative […]
Marc Canter argues that AJAX is a dead-end street, arguing that “new paradigms like Laszlo and Avalon are required for us to build the future.”
I have to agree that the next generation of tools will bring better experiences, but the fact that better tools have existed for a long time, and nobody used them, should […]
What’s with the Oakanfold Pepsi ads? As if “Starry Eyed Surprise” wasn’t obvious enough, they had to throw in a glittering rollergirl. Really lovely, but…
And how about the Vehix, “what you wish you could do in real life, now you can do online”. Every one of them shows something that is quite […]
Kim Cameron remixes some recent press coverage of the declining trust in e-commerce, a trend he calls identity meltdown.
I first became interested in this topic in 1992, when I found it possible to transfer all of my money from one state to another with some very superficial identity checks performed by the destination bank (and […]