Monthly Archives: May 2005

Saturday Roundup: Five Thought Provokers

Posted on May 21, 2005 by Dave Pollard

The Fifty-Year Shadow: The last living signatory of the Russell-Einstein Manifesto of 1955, warning politicians and the world of the dangers of nuclear arms proliferation, explains eloquently in this week’s NYT why that warning is just as relevant fifty years … Continue reading →

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The Great Refusal, by Glenn Parton

Posted on May 21, 2005 by Dave Pollard

This is the third and final part of Glenn Parton’s latest essay. Part one, Exterminism, is a broad criticism of Western culture. Part two, Free Love, outlines a mystical approach in support of a polyamory lifestyle. In this third part, … Continue reading →

Posted in Preparing for Civilization's End | 2 Comments

Looks Like the Fourth Turning After All

Posted on May 20, 2005 by Dave Pollard

The Idea: Is the US predestined to slide into totalitarianism? I haven’t written much about US politics lately, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been paying attention. As distraught as I am about the extremist ideology of the party in … Continue reading →

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Making Blogs Browsable

Posted on May 19, 2005 by Dave Pollard

The Idea: By allowing blog articles to be indexed the way their author would organize them in a filing cabinet, and by allowing the reader to view blog articles by topic and sub-topic instead of just reverse chronological order, blogs … Continue reading →

Posted in Using Weblogs and Technology, Working Smarter | 11 Comments

Twelve Ways to Think Differently

Posted on May 18, 2005 by Dave Pollard

The Idea: Twelve methods that will exercise parts of your brain that rarely get it, and make you more creative and better able to understand the world. Our minds are like our bodies — fail to exercise them and they … Continue reading →

Posted in Working Smarter | 19 Comments

By the Numbers: The Wal-Mart Dilemma, File Sharing and Lousy Service

Posted on May 17, 2005 by Dave Pollard

The Idea: Oligopolies, insane intellectual property laws, unreasonable shareholder expectations, government corporate welfare, massive subsides, corporate amorality and other aberrations keep the current economy light-years from being a true market economy, but at a micro level, customers are starting to … Continue reading →

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Making Peace With the End of Civilization

Posted on May 16, 2005 by Dave Pollard

The Idea: The author waxes philosophical about how he can be so pessimistic and so happy at the same time, and why he works so hard when he sees no perpetuity to what he does. Here’s the gist of a … Continue reading →

Posted in Preparing for Civilization's End | 15 Comments

We Need More ‘If the Shoe Were On the Other Foot’ Thinking

Posted on May 15, 2005 by Dave Pollard

The Idea: If we really want to break people out of their frames, we should make less use of satire and more use of analogous thinking based on an extension of the ‘golden rule’ . By now you’re probably tired … Continue reading →

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A Little Bragging, A Little Contest, and the reason Dave’s RSS is MIA

Posted on May 14, 2005 by Dave Pollard

Although my page-counts are going through their usual spring doldrums, my Technorati inbound blog count is creeping up on the magic 1000 mark, and should reach that level in the next week or two. This will be a first for … Continue reading →

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Links of the Week

Posted on May 14, 2005 by Dave Pollard

Here’s my usual Saturday assortment of interesting links sent to me or stumbled upon in the past week, this week with a predominantly feminine flavour: The Real News from Iraq: Kentucky photojournalist Molly Bingham, who has risked her life several … Continue reading →

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