I’ve talked about this before and from an outside perspective and from someone who skates there twice a week, here is my take.  The City is suing for rights to take over the park. An assumption is that it seems the city needs the Skate Park revenue to pay for their money pit projects…ahem the [...]

In the new issue of Wired, Kevin Kelly provides an interesting observation that the Internet has now hit approximate computational equivalence to a single human brain. The nifty little animated info-graphic is worth the look. 
Each time a person clicks on a search result or creates a link to a Web page, the One Machine is being [...]

Not surprising, given the administrations viva la torture agenda. The Human Rights Tribune is reporting that the US resigned status as an “observer” in the UN Human Rights Council. 

Just when you thought every corner of the world was connected and corrupted by modern culture, think again. The BBC reports that an uncontacted tribe of indigenous people has been documented living in Brazil’s dense rainforest. 
One of South America’s few remaining uncontacted indigenous tribes has been spotted and photographed on the border between Brazil and Peru. The Brazilian government says it took the [...]

The Great Seal of the United States was designed in the late 1700’s as an official symbol of sovereignty. The original concept was designed around the thirteen States in the Union. Over 200 years later this country is dramatically different. Maybe its time to revisit the design of the Great Seal to something that reflects [...]