Archive for September, 2009

The corp and the customer (a clueful resistance)

I came across this old cluetrain manifesto today and it got me thinking.  Reading through their (read-only, therefore never-updated?) page, I came to the conclusion that while I could certainly get behind what they were saying, the article assumed that corporations (along with their marketing and sales departments) should /could evolve better ways of communicating [...]

“Animals, on the other hand, must be treated as well rounded, complex characters”

Every once in a while I bump into a certain article (How to Write About Africa), and I recently got pinged with the url to yet another reincarnation of it… I’m taking this as a sign that I should finally blog about this topic…
Now I could get squished by the sheer weight of the entire [...]

The thermodynamic arrow of… of morality?

On my way to Canadian Tire a few days ago I put the radio on and settled at the CBC radio show ‘Tapestry’ with Mary Hynes. It was an interview with Robert Wright (author of The Evolution of God) who spent the later portions of the interview trying to explain his way out of a [...]