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Postcards from Iran
I am pleased to present guest blogger Professor William Beeman who has just sent the following postcards from his recent trip to Iran. Professor William Beeman is a professor of anthropology at the...
View ArticleInfrastructure development
We have an extraordinary opportunity before us to construct a course to a better future. During times of boom economies, companies are primarily focused on executing their plans and meeting demand....
View ArticleLouis CK video makes $1 million in 12 days, no DRM
I have written about copyright and Creative Commons in the past. So many of our media sources are wrapped up in DRM (Digital Rights Management) software. Some of it is encoded in to the movies or...
View ArticleThank you! View total hits 10,000
I just want to thank you, my readers. My view total just hit 10,000, which is far more than what I had imagined when I started writing and posting. I am especially pleased by the number of non US...
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Zahra Noorbaksh has new work.
I have written about my friend Zahra's work in the past. I am proud to tell you of a new book by American Muslim women writers: Love, InShAllah, edited by Ayesha Mattu and Mura Maznavi that includes a...
View ArticleAbridged summary of gay friendly church denominations
Due to what is considered newsworthy in the media, there is a widespread impression that lgbt supportive churches are few and far between. This may be an inaccurate impression.The following list will...
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Stop SOPA and PIPA
On strike today to fight the Stop Online Piracy Act. Today, we are striking against censorship. Join the largest online protest in history: tell Congress to stop this bill now!Not In The US? Petition...
View ArticleMegaupload Case Sends Chill over Cloud Computing Business
By now, many will have heard the news of the closing of the web site Megaupload by US federal prosecutors, based on allegations of copyright infringement. The fact that this action has occurred based...
View ArticleHuge Alan Lomax folk music archive available
By the time I was in Jr, high school, I had become a huge fan of folk music, which was a major popular music of the time. I listened to "The Midnight Special", on WFMT every Saturday night, a program...
View ArticleSome thoughts on a war with Iran
We continue to see blogs, news commentary, and politicians loudly agitating for a war with Iran. One might form the opinion that such a war is inevitable, and that, of course may be their goal. The...
View ArticleLegal cases overshadow technology development
Today there have been several developments in the technology world that are taking place in the courtrooms rather than the labs. This is not a good sign for technical progress or incentive for...
View ArticleEncounters in passing
Sometimes you meet someone for a short period of time and you change each other's lives in ways that are unforeseeable but wonderful just the same. My meeting with Neill Edwards was all of that.In...
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Bayard Rustin
This picture is shared under a Creative Commons licence:March 17th marked the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Bayard Rustin, one of the most important figures of the struggle for justice in...
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Arctic CO2 levels reach 400 ppm psychological milestone
photo: Julie G/Creative CommonsEarths' atmospheric CO2 levels during the pre-industrial age averaged around 275 ppm. With the advent of large scale coal and other fossil fuel burning, the carbon...
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Community of Christ at San Francisco Pride
Some rights reserved by hefoxed The Walnut Creek and San Francisco congregations of Community of Christ were one of the many religious organizations to help sponsor the SF Pride celebration with a...
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Curiosity has landed.
Photo from solarsystem.nasa.govThis thumbnail photo, the first one sent by the Curiosity Mars rover, doesn't look like much, until you realise the full meaning of what it represents. It shows the...
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Like a death in the family
Ambassador Christopher StevensAmbassador Christopher Stevens was killed when the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya was attacked on September 11, 2012.I never met Amassador Stevens, but it feels like a...
View Article50,000 page views- Thanks again!
Just before Christmas last year, I published a thank you post for 10,000 page views. The total has reached 50,000 this evening. It is interesting to me that such an unfocused blog as to topic is...
View ArticleCalifornia bill to outlaw gay conversion therapy becomes law
Today California signed a bill into law to ban licensed mental health professionals from performing gay conversion therapy on minors. Professional testimony during the hearings established that such...
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Are sailors unknowingly whistling up the wind?
Some sailors are unknowingly contributing to a developing environmental disaster with a safety device that can be easily replaced once they understand the cause.Sailors are among the most...
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