Guest Thinkers

I have been religiously watching the TEDTalks series, a group of videos produced by TED. Overall I’ve been mostly impressed with the speakers, very cool stuff. Here’s an EXCELLENT spoken […]

Ben Casnocha recently had a post that made me break out the thinking cap. I traveled through western europe for a long trip as part of a gap year. Due […]

I was riding in a car with my dad on the last leg of a father/son roadtrip today and we both noticed a magnificent Hawk flying nearby. It reminded me […]

I got some good advice in one of my lectures today from the co-founder of my film school (Stephen Kopels gets the nod on this clever colloquilism). The worst thing […]

I have recently begun a one year intensive study on film at a school in San Francisco. My main goal is to learn how to tell stories in a visual […]

I’m in the city and it’s amazing! A friend asked me to house sit for her. Her place is at Union and Fillmore (which is pretty lucky, I should be […]

I have had a great weekend, attended the Dew Action Sports Tour as a VIP for Free, got seats at a Dave Matthews Band Concert on Fri for free, and […]

Anyone here see murderball? Interesting video showing that wheelchairs are involved in more extreme sports then one. Check out the first ever Wheelchair Backflip.

I went to the hardware store today, looking to buy a notebook before my job interview this afternoon. On the way I stopped by Kinkos to print out a copy […]

An very funny Yelp post (maybe you know you’re a SFian when you blog Yelp posts). My personal favorite, and one I’m guilty of. When you start a new company […]

I’m hanging out at The Future of Webapps seminar and have a small break in which to sum up some really cool ideas from this mornings talks. Dick Hardt is […]

I have been fully remiss in putting up my notes from Carson System’s Future of Web Applications… I am working on it. The reason I’ve taken so long is due […]

I’m now working in the mission district of San Francisco at eMochila. I’m a member of the sales team there. We build websites for professionals, and our focus is on […]

Dear Friends and Supporters, On Sunday, November 12th in Racine, I will hold my 1000th Listening Session with the people of Wisconsin. Before reaching that milestone, I want you to […]

I’m vastly aware no-one/very few people read this… hence it is going to become way for me to organize and publish my thoughts, and work on communicating and recomending in […]

One of my favorite videos ever.Jon Stewart makes an awesome speech on Crossfire completely dismantling Tucker Carlson. Begala gets a little as well but Tucker really gets it. I recently […]

Watch The Daily Show’s Short on Myspace.Just hilarious… As a recovering myspace adict, I actually think Myspace has been brought to us by the devil and no longer use it, […]

Go Check out FairVote. n I’m all for this change to direct election, it will encourage people to get out and vote. Here’s an excerpt from their webpage. n That’s […]

I’ve enjoyed some European Travel, and I need to get some more places. After school (and probably grad school) I plan on moving out of the USA at least for […]

Many will agree that the supposed diplomatic triumph at the Cancun climate talks offered little tangible progress to further reduce emissions of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

The famously reclusive Apollo 11 commander breaks his silence to answer the burning question why his team didn’t cover more ground during its moon landing.

Much of the history of the city can be written as a tension between the visible and the invisible. What and who gets seen? By whom? Who interprets the city’s meaning?

There has been outrage from both sides of the aisle at the deal that Obama has worked out with the Republican leadership to extend the Bush tax cuts. Some Republicans […]

It is that time a year again – final exams, Christmas music and the annual American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco. All this does make the end of the […]

Some historians have regarded Eisenhower’s Farewell Address as an afterthought. Others have regarded it as the soulful expression of a prescient if aging President.

The great-grandmother of Jesus was a woman named Ismeria, according to Florentine medieval manuscripts analyzed by a historian.

According to Giorgio Vasari’s Lives, Domenico Ghirlandaio—whose frescoes graced the walls of the Sistine Chapel before those of his apprentice, Michelangelo—once called the art of mosaics as “vera pittura per […]

We’ve previously looked at severalexamples of Braille-centric design for the blind. Haptic Braille is an ingenious concept by Korean designer Baek Kil Hyun – a portable Braille translator and scanner. […]

After reading George Lakoff’s diary “Untellable Truths” over at Daily Kos this morning, which methodically described why the progressive wing of the Democratic Party always seems to get the short […]

Since it’s birth in 1998, Google has become our gateway to the Web (its supremacy threatened somewhat now by Apple and Facebook). It processes over 1 billion search requests every […]