Dine Differently…?

http://www.uwink.com/

Go, Nolan Bushnell, Go!

Develop A Bottle To Feed The Earth

http://news.guelphmercury.com/News/article/405639

Innovative Pumpkin Design

This from my colleague, Sean Yo:

“geek + time + homemade CNC rig + pumpkin = pure awesome. http://is.gd/5dyk (via slashdot).”

Innovations In Scratching

I jumped at the opportunity to see Kid Koala. Last night at the Guelph Jazz Festival. Damn, it was good.

Learn Differently

I was recently profiled in the eLearning Journal2Gether.

Have a look.

We Can Do Better Than Zero

I applaud the zero footprint initiative. In many ways, it gives people real-life, measurable goals to achieve. I’m heartened by the fact that institutions and municipalities are joining in on the initiative. I wonder though, if it’s a bit short-sighted and even negative in it’s goals. Surely we can do better than “zero”. I think we definitely have to try to have a positive impact on the earth, rather than a “less-negative” one.

Striving for “zero” (and incidently likely never reaching it) simply means that we’re working within existing structures to drain our resources less quickly and poison our earth more slowly. If you read William McDonough & Michael Braungart’s 2002 book “Cradle to Cradle” (mentioned in a previous post), you might see what I’m trying to get at. As a race, we have to take positive action to do more than slow environmental degradation, and more than use more recycled products. We need to create a new way of thinking, living and creating. We need to make our environment better and healthier. To borrow an idea from the book, we need to be eco-effective, not just eco-efficient.

The zero footprint does a great job to measure how lightly we tread, but to be truly effective, it should also measure and promote how we can make the earth better.

Innovative Transportation, Closer To Home

I just wanted to give a local e-bike company a bit of a plug here.

http://www.e-rideguelph.ca/home.htm

FaceBook In Reality

Teach (Astronomy) Differently

I’ve been exploring the recently launched WorldWide Telescope. It’s an extremely rich way to explore and tour the universe. What I think is the most exciting is that users are able to create their own presentations and share them with each other.

Below is a talk from Roy Gould at TED.

Anatomy Of A Bad URL

My thoughts are a bit scattered today.

Two “sponsored links” have come my way via gmail recently with poorly envisioned URLs. Don’t bother looking at these links, as you probably don’t need them, but here they are.

mauidforever.com – Mau ID forever?
torontopianosale.com – what’s a Torontopian O-Sale?