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Heads Up: Blog Action Day 2009

You might have noticed that another little image showed up on the right. I’m talking about the one advertising Blog Action Day 2009. For the other two that you currently see there I first wrote a post and then added the image, but this time I added the image right after I got the message […]

Home

Silly me. Apparently they put it there from the beginning and I didn’t know Home was on YouTube until today. I’d strongly encourage everyone to see it, because it’s truly impressive. Of course, it’ll only have the desired effect on those who are already aware of the problems and trying to do something to solve […]

The Power of… Infrastructure

Still trying to go through my drafts and actually get around to writing some of these posts instead of just letting them sit around here for years. This one seems to fit in quite well with a few other recent rants, because it deals with how to make people behave in a certain way, what […]

Power of the Mindless Masses

This post has been in my drafts since 2007, when I bumped into a study about this issue. Seems like today’s as good as any other day to actually get around to writing it, because the situation’s still the same. Something like this doesn’t change in two years; it probably doesn’t change in two millennia […]

One World Language

I don’t think anyone’s going to deny that we need good international communication, both at the highest level and among regular people. But that will be very difficult to achieve as long as different people use different languages, so I believe we need to have one world language that everyone should know and use. Other […]