A blog to collect miscellany and internet things.

Aaron Swartz has committed suicide and the web is mourning and it’s a pretty sad day to be on the Continue reading →

15 Sharing NPOs That Need Help

Check out the article I wrote last week for Shareable about 15 not-for-profit organizations that need your money, love and Continue reading →

The Visceral Neighborhood

Shareable just has the greatest stuff. Check out Claire Kessier-Bradner’s article “The Visceral Neighborhood,” where she shares a fantastic personal story Continue reading →

It’s leaky.

On the Leakiness of Surveillance Culture, the Corporate Gaze, and What That Has To Do With the New Aesthetic: “…sometimes Continue reading →

6 Women Who Changed Science

Maria Popova discovered these beautiful, minimalist posters honouring women who have made important contributions to science, designed by Hydrogene. Check them Continue reading →

What’s an art hive?

  This great piece in NOW Concordia explains “art hives” — a concept I’ve never heard about before but reminds me Continue reading →

Words to live by

“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same Continue reading →

Political Communication

The other day one of my new professors (Dr. A. Göllner) proposed a definition so good I had to share: Continue reading →

Just Wash The Spoon

Source: Posters for Good.

Robots Need Love Too (says Dan Mangan)

This song has been playing in my apartment incessantly since Osheaga, and since I just watched the music video I Continue reading →

“We Need to Talk About An Injustice”

Bryan Stevenson’s TED Talk is a masterful piece of storytelling. He manages to get away with talking about racism, injustice, Continue reading →

Dennis Murphy Made Me Think

I’m taking an online class right now and the content is surprisingly rich and engaging. There are these weekly discussion Continue reading →

Ideas about Meetings by Someone Who Sucks at Them

Thoughts about why I struggle with groups that use consensus decision making, and ways I think meetings could be more Continue reading →

Done is the Engine of More

Rapid prototyping, living fast, and all the things that make me excited to work. Read Bre Pettis & Kio Stark’s “The Continue reading →

You want a physicist to speak at your funeral.

Aaron Freeman, NPR, on planning your funeral. Beautiful. Listen to the audio clip.   “You want a physicist to speak Continue reading →