Two days ago I read of the announcement that wifi internet access will be deployed across all of Amtrak’s Acela trains.
My first reaction was a reflexive appreciation of progress. I’m a fan of travel by train when I can afford it, and I can schedule my travel such that an Acela ticket does not cost [...]
I’ve been reading this interview with Ray Kurzweil, a futurist/technologist/scientist who’ve been aware of for a while and whose ideas I am interested in. I lack the depth to fully endorse or innovate or thoroughly critique them, but I think I can take on little bits. In this case, an important tangent where I think [...]
I’ve been helping my friend Sam Husseini maintain an impromptu “liveblog” he set up to document his observation as he followed the Gaza Freedom March in Cairo, Egypt. Find all that material on that site: husseini.posterous.com.
Some of my contributions in his aid were inadvertently syndicated here, with HTML not escaped properly, etc. I’ve removed those [...]