Happy European Fish Week everybody! To celebrate, The Guardian publishes this visualization (via David McCandless of Information is Beautiful) that illustrates the depletion of fish biomass in the oceans. In homage to #ds106, here is the animated gif version: This daily dose of doom-mongering is drawn from a study conducted by Dr Villy Christensen and […]
Read more "Sometimes information is ugly, no matter how it looks"Grandview Cut Construction shared CC by oliverk I’ve had quite a run of interesting personal/professional development events this past month… Add them to my perpetually-growing “to-be-blogged” queue: a Northern Voice that achieved epic heaviosity, a Sustainable Education Across the Province (SEAP) workshop, and last week in Nelson the always enjoyable spring gathering of the province’s […]
Read more "Open Source City"Robert Crumb explains how there’s no hope via flow chart shared CC by Aaron_M …this post by Morris Berman might help explain why: “Under the Republicans, man exploits man. With the Democrats, just the opposite is true.” —American bumper sticker …chronicling the collapse of the American mind has become something of a national pastime, way […]
Read more "If I seem especially cranky…."rhızomıng thε planεs of rεsılıεncε . . shared CC by jef safi “The quest for a sustainable world may succeed, or it may fail. If it fails, the world will become unthinkable. If it works, the world will become unimaginable.” –Bruce Sterling in Shaping Things Via the blog for the most groovy podcast 99 % […]
Read more "The quest for a sustainable world…"Broken Heart of Social Media shared CC by WebRanking Pictures Sometime over the past couple years, the archives of the UBC e-Strategy Newsletter were pulled offline, the victim of re-organization. Apparently it was deemed unworthy of preservation. The vanishing newsletter hardly counts as a tragic loss as a collection of timeless prose, but as someone […]
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