And how, precisely, is this any different from ordinary business? The irony behind this is too thick to cut.
Internet fraudsters will try to exploit the global financial crisis by sending fraudulent emails purporting to offer cash-strapped consumers new mortgages, loans or money from failed banks, a Microsoft executive said on Wednesday.
Tim Cranton, an Internet safety […]

Speaking of the internet and how it reveals elements in the collective consciousness of humanity, an old article of mine (2005) is suddenly receiving a large amount of visitors from the website StumbleUpon, an article I wrote about intoxication in the animal kingdom. Another link on the subject I collected comes from Michael Pollan’s “Botany […]

I had this random thought while writing my piece on web 3.0 and the changing geo-political landscape as seen through the lens of web technology: could you build an AI which was a perfect Christian, or at least operated according to purely Christian philosophy and ethics?
Not twenty minutes later, I got an email from Garrett […]

I downloaded the above graphic somewhere, but I can’t quite remember where. It looks like my version of it above came out rather illegible on account of being shrunk down my integrated image re-sizer for WordPress. So let me highlight some of the parts of what it says that interest me. Understand, that as I […]

2012, an artist’s rendering…

I was thinking the other day of how weird it would be to start a support group for “9/11 survivors”, something along the lines of Alcoholics Anonymous or similar. The sole purpose of it would be to get people together in a public space to talk about what actually happened on 9/11 and what has […]