Posts from ‘April, 2009’

I am a TED Head. I love the lec­tures at the TED Con­fer­ence. What began as a small con­fer­ence in Cal­i­for­nia has grown to a global com­mu­nity, many mil­lion strong, focused on exchang­ing and spread­ing ideas. If you have seen some of their lec­tures, please do so, it’s an eye open­ing expe­ri­ence. Any­one who is […]

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It is very fit­ting that I saw an arti­cle on Boing Boing about a new issue of Steam­punk Mag­a­zine being released after my last post on the work of Bruce McCall. Noth­ing says Faux-Nostalgia like Steam Punk; that is the achingly sen­ti­men­tal yearn­ing for a future that never hap­pened. In case you don’t know Steampunk […]

Bruce McCall says in this hilar­i­ous and very inter­est­ing TED pre­sen­ta­tion that Nos­tal­gia is the most utterly use­less human emo­tion. I don’t totally agree but I see the point. Nos­tal­gia if taken to extreme becomes a mild case of depres­sion and self-deception. The past is never as great or as bad as it seems and […]