Main contents
Archive for the 'Politics' Category
The effects of constant exposure to advertisements
May 15th, 2009
I came across an article that ponders the effects of continual bombardment of advertisments upon us, and thought it had some good insights. Below are a few excerpts. The rampant commercialization of the U.S. becomes powerfully evident whenever I return from an extended trip to a country where people don’t wallow in materialism (on this [...]
Mark Shuttleworth Supporting Open Voting Consortium
July 14th, 2008
OVC will be demoing their voting system at the Linux World conference. They are working to raise $30,000 by August 4th, to complete and certify their voting solution in the state of California. Mark Shuttleworth, entrepreneur and founder of Canonical, has given his support to the OVC in their mission to provide an open, verifiable [...]
A call to action
April 30th, 2008
“People I work with seem struck with how grandiose our problems have become and yet how lousy are our choices for a new leader to fix them. It’s almost as though both political parties had too much to drink and vomited McCain, Hillary and Obama onto our kitchen floor and are now asking us to [...]