Theory in the Fan Voice. Part 1. by R.D. 1: Shinichiro Watanabe directed and storyboarded Samurai Champloo. This is the show we are currently watching. Before this we watched seasons 1 and 2 of NYPD Blue. Samurai Champloo is glowingly, astonishingly beautiful. It’s about hiphop-flavoured and brazenly anachronistic Samurai rebels, traveling with a funny and [...]
Hey all- a great set of films coming up on Monday night prompted me to remember another awesome and environmentally aware project. Remember SETI, and the coolness of collaborating via interweb, and contributing distributed computing power to help send communications into space? Climateprediction.net takes that computing principle and turns the focus toward home. You can [...]
Neil Balan The recent completion of the 2006 World Social Forum – held simultaneously in Caracas, Venezuela and Bamako, Mali, with another session planned to follow in Karachi, Pakistan this March – added extra emphasis to recent early morning activities. I spent some time over coffee reading another thought-provoking, motorized essay from the February issue [...]
by Foggy Bottom Canadians live in a vast and inhospitable land. In discussing France’s wars with England over Quebec in the 18th Century, Voltaire once lamented on waste of blood and treasure committed for “quelques arpents de neige.” It is time for Canada to break from the tyranny of cold. It is time that Canada [...]
“The people I’ve spoken to today said the cartoons just welcomed Muhammad to the beloved Danish tradition of satirical humour.” http://www.timesonline.co.uk/ Here’s an article that shows the cartoons that have enraged many Muslims (and sypathetic members of other religions) in their original context. It also offers an English translation of the editorial that accompanied the [...]
by Risa Dickens you can read part 1 of this series at: History of a Start Up. I don’t know about other people, but my current relationship with money is probably unhealthy. Money looms large on my list of goals because I feel the dragging weight of not-enough-money around the neck of almost every good [...]
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