In July, the Department of Homeland Security exceeded 1,000,000 on the Terrorist Watch list, including Ted Kennedy. Additionally, if you cross the border now, custom agents can copy your hard drive virtually at will; do you really want them to have that photo of your grandmama? And you thought just going through airport security was bad. Well, now is the time to complain. The ACLU have a nifty letter all set to go to your rep in congress. It will only take a second
Okay, maybe this does not qualify for The Next Good Idea, but there is definitely a pleasure to be had in being told a specific day you will die. Me, I’ve got over fifty years left, if all goes well.
Why do something in a simple way? People always say “build a better mousetrap”, but one of my heroes did just the opposite. His machines were hilariously complicated. Now when something is overly elaborate, people say its “Goldberg-ian”. Makes you wonder what your last name might represent years from now…
America has surpassed Italy, and will soon catch France to become the largest consumer of wine in the world. All that wine has to move miles to get to your glass, and thus leaves behind quite a carbon footprint. Pleasure doesn’t need to leave behind such a brutal wake though. If we could just climb down off our snob-appeal high chair, and embrace such a simple solution, we would be a few steps closer to nirvana.
The Conservatives at The FCC have been up to the old dis-info game. Robert McDowell, one of the two FCC commisioners to recently vote AGAINST the Comcast judgement, tried to rally the right by linking Net Neutrality to the abandoned Fairness Doctrine.
The desire for authenticity is an interesting thing. I often have had creative executives say to me that they are looking for something that “feels authentic”, which I take it is something entirely different from something that is authentic. The DFA is closely related to “keeping it real” which is a style I’ve seen worn quite well by those who are anything but (see Adbusters’ great article on Hipsters).
The Global Oneness Project is “exploring how the radically simple notion of interconnectedness can be lived in our increasingly complex world.” They have a great short film online library covering a series of remarkable projects that are helping to improve our world. You will recognize them from my prior post on The Greenhouse Project. Check them out.
