Month: January 2008

  • Ninja not

    I am so definitely not an email ninja. Does anybody really do this stuff?

  • Eyes on the prize

    If you need a sound track for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, try Mavis Staples’ “We’ll Never Turn Back.” The YouTube video is one of the tracks, “Eyes on the Prize.” Fantastic set of civil rights songs done by fantastic lady. (Ry Cooder’s pretty good, too). 1. “Down In Mississippi” 2. “Eyes On The Prize”…

  • The tipping point for change

    Stewart Brand recaps a talk by futurist Paul Saffo, a Stanford University professor who has spent more than 20 years looking at technological change and it practical impacts. Saffe spoke at a Jan. 11, 2008, seminar put on by The Long Now Foundation. He outlined eight rules for forecasting the future. But what I liked…