Technorati haiku

For all you Technoranki junkies out there. Ahem: I click without hope Technorati is unchanged. Frustrated: I sigh. Update: Whoops. Thanks to Declan for the polysyllabic assist.

James Hrynyshyn’s Island of Doubt

My one-time Charlatan compadre James Hrynyshyn has headed south of the border, but thanks to the miracle of the Internets, I can still find out what’s going on in that fertile mind of his at Island of Doubt. Given that he told me about peak oil two years ago, I...

Greetings, reptiles. Buy our product.

I’ve been a little skeptical of the latest Microsoft ad campaign, which basically says that if you don’t upgrade to the next version of Office, you’re less evolved, facing extinction — and scaly, to boot. On the other hand, it’s a rich...

Worth reading: Mark on Media

Lately, I’ve been following Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media. Written by a former journalist turned Kwantlen journalism instructor, it started as a way to share information with his students. But now its mandate has broadened: The more I read, the more I see...

A Scarlet Pimpernel for information

There’s a small army of researchers hard at work on public policy projects. But until now, most of their work has stayed hidden from the U.S. taxpayers who fund it. Now that’s changing. Thanks to the work of Open CRS, the efforts of the U.S. Congressional...
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