This blog tends to be a place that I use to share and give my opinion about things that I find interesting and important, mainly in regards to matters of the mind.
Today’s post is going to wander from that path a bit, although not too far, in the name of bringing to your attention something [...]
Author Archives: Cody
Propaganda threatens the Open Internet
March 2, 2010 – 3:19 am
Driven to Distraction
February 2, 2010 – 3:02 am
I almost couldn’t believe the numbers given in this piece in the New York Times:
Slightly more than 1,000 pedestrians visited emergency rooms in 2008 because they got distracted and tripped, fell or ran into something while using a cellphone to talk or text.
I think this points to a deeper, more widespread problem of distraction and [...]
Friction
January 27, 2010 – 4:45 pm
There are many conveniences that modern life has brought us — and I do realize that, given my young age and the time I’ve grown up in, it may seem a little ridiculous to talk about in such a way. However, I’ve heard stories of a time when questions were not immediately answerable by Google [...]
Unsold Clothes Discarded
January 7, 2010 – 3:58 pm
I was reading through some New York Times articles this morning, and stumbled across a short piece on clothing retailers’ practice of destroying and then discarding clothing that is unsold. H&M and Wal-Mart are targeted, although I have trouble believing that they’re the only guilty parties.
It is winter. A third of the city is poor. [...]
The Cost of High Anxiety About Flying | NYTimes.com
January 3, 2010 – 10:32 pm
The New York Times published a great article putting the recent attempted attack on our skies in perspective. It’s a short piece, definitely worth a read.
And yet, from the point of view of the individual traveler, a risk-free flight has never existed; nor has a risk-free car trip; nor a risk-free ocean liner voyage; nor [...]
