Jun 9, 2012 | Campaigns, Non-Fiction |
The #ShellFAIL campaign that Greenpeace and The Yes Men collaboratively launched this week, has been spreading extremely quickly. It’s been at least 6 months since one campaign thoroughly took over the Facebook updates of so many friends, despite being connected...
Apr 13, 2012 | Campaigns, Non-Fiction |
Cameron’s Asian tour SIR – It was with sadness that I learnt of David Cameron’s visit to Indonesia this week to renew arms sales. I still bear scars and a permanent walking impairment as a result of an Indonesian bombing raid on my village using British-supplied Hawk...
Aug 29, 2011 | Campaigns, Geekery, Non-Fiction |
From Time magazine: Tim Parsonson, CEO of African data-center operator Teraco, says that in the past four years Africa’s Internet capacity soared from 340 gigabits to 34,000 gigabits per second while the cost of the Internet to its service providers plunged from...
Jul 26, 2009 | Campaigns, Geekery, Non-Fiction |
We are racing toward the end of the world and have no plan of escape, but it is considered impolite to acknowledge that fact in public. We see the mistakes we have made, but we continue to make them with an apparent blind obstinacy… We know the implications of...
Aug 29, 2008 | Campaigns, Non-Fiction |
With the exception of preventing war, this is the greatest challenge our country will face during our lifetimes. The energy crisis has not yet overwhelmed us, but it will if we do not act quickly. It is a problem we will not solve in the next few years, and it is...