“Even though I’m 94, I still have ambitions,” Estelle Strongin, a 94-year old financial advisor still works every day.
And why should that surprise any thinking human being?
Estelle was asked, “What makes it harder for you, being your age?”
Her honest and sociologically revolting response, “People’s attitude about older people. People are …

The year was 1993. Somewhere in a remote cubicle in Illinois, a couple of kids named Eric Bina and Marc Andreessen had grown tired of tunneling through gopher holes and fiddling with ASCII/BIN file transfer protocol modes. So they came up with something better called Mosaic and thereby “invented the …

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Imagining the Internet and the latest Future of the Internet II prognostications from the Pew Internet and American Life project.

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My surprising initial reaction to First Look – TimesReader – Sneak Peek 01.
My system: Two year old Acer Travelmate C111ti; heavily battered and worn. 1GHz / 1GB / 60GB; XP, always patched to the gills, etc. :) Lots of garbage installed all over the place, because I’m …

“Sometimes, the wisdom of crowds doesn’t work. Sometimes, the crowd is gaming you. It’s the tyranny of the well-organized minority.”
Brilliant. Just flat brilliant. It’s not often that you run into this caliber of illuminating metaperception with regard to seemingly insurmoutable, widespread, real world problems.
But then when you …

IMHO, Time Magazine just happened to create one of the more poetically accurate covers of the Nine Eleven Fifth Anniversary Media Frenzy. Sure, this week is as good as any to think about these things; however, by reducing the events of that day to a national Hallmark Anti-Holiday, we dishonor …

Connecting with the lowest common denominator 12 year-old reading level demographic with a series on the new “age.” I’m not criticizing, we DEFINITELY need 12 year olds on our side!

Live Long? Die Young? Answer Isn’t Just in Genes
The New Age: Betting on Longevity
This is the second article in a series …

Speaking of dog watching, I continue to stick by Vonage. My shares from the Directed Share Program went from $17.00 to $6 to presently settle between $8 and $9 — and I’m sticking with it. If it’s statesmanship you’re looking for, try this on for size: I won’t …

Definitely do not miss the new podcast series from Genetic Engineering News.

The Fast Turtle – Enter: The Transbeing

Bush Urges Nation To Be Quiet For A Minute While He Tries To Think. Indeed, thanks again to The Onion – America’s Finest News Source.

C’mon and join the joyous jamboree! Now that Jebus has changed His mind — for confirmation, just ask your local fundamentalist flip-flopper who THEN screamed “charge” and NOW cries “retreat” — it is finally time for all good RepubliCARNs to take full ownership of their share of the CARN-Age.
See the …