hey all…just thought i’d drop a note about the films, speakers, and roundtable discussions happening here in vancouver on sunday. It’s all around the anniversary of the Montreal massacre, where a man walked into an engineering class at a university in montreal, asked the men to leave, and then shot all the women [...]
in the past few days i’ve been reading some really interesting stuff, mainly about gender, power, and democracy. One of these is the PhD thesis of Bob Everton, “This is what democracy looks like!”; Democracy in Action: Communicative Action. I’ll probably go into it in more depth later, once i’m finished, but so [...]
i went out for a ride with my dad today, and it got me thinking about next spring (yes, already). Right now, my dad rides pretty much every day, for about 15km. This is great…he needs the exercise. He’s also discovering that a small amount of riding on a consistant basis actually [...]
Last night i was fortunate enough to get a preview-pass to go see a movie called “Paradise Now”, a new movie that gives light to a view of palestinian suicide bombers that i’ve never before seen in the mainstream. The movie follows to palestinian friends, Khaled and Said, who make the choice to be [...]
i liked this article from ZNet, which quickly mentions quite a few key points:
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=74&ItemID=9087
after reading the absolutely absurd coverage in this morning’s papers, i thought i’d pass on a few links to some decent reading about the current riots in france. the first good stuff that i found was in a story on mostlywater.org. It seems that these are translations done by a blogger at Sketchy [...]
today i was considering what kind of new and interesting job i could try if i put enough effort into learning spanish (and other languages). As many of you have heard here, i’m sorta tired of the old sit-in-front-of-a-monitor-all-day computer jobs, and i’m also a language geek, and i’m gonna need a job at [...]
I was just reading slashdot and saw an article about training bees to recognize a certain color, and it immediately mentions that there could be applications in developing autonomous robots. Of course, tons of robotics funding comes from DARPA and various other military sources. pretty much everything in science research does, these days. [...]