Web Applications

Reading the utopi­anism of world​chang​ing​.com after watch­ing a TED talk from the founder of it, I tried cal­cu­lat­ing car­bon foot­print more accu­rately than I had pre­vi­ously. Catching up on missed blogs, I’ve got­ten myself going on dopplr a moment ago, fol­low­ing a Lessig commenter’s idea to use it to cal­cu­late car­bon for off­set dona­tions — which is …

They Thought There Were Free Toys

I’ve just ordered a Kindle and fin­ished a review of (warn­ing: spoil­ers, big-assed swastika on the front cover) They Thought They Were Free, a book about ordi­nary peo­ple in Germany who became Nazis that’s been on my list for a long while after it made the rounds on some of the lefty blogs I read. As …