The Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon

I have written several times that it is more important for our country to stick to our ideals in our fight against hatred and terrorism, that the ends do no justify all means. An open letter was written and signed by several CIA and US Department of Defense officials asking the US Senate to [...]

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This frightening article is an absolute must-read for any American.
Thus far only a fraction of Ohio’s 88 counties have received even passing scrutiny. But the early indicators are that Ohio 2004, which decided the presidency, may ultimately prove out to have been the dirtiest and most obviously stolen election in all U.S. [...]

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A SPARQL FAQ created by Lee Feigenbaum. Great work, and an especially great starting place for anyone wanting to learn more about the query language for the semantic web.

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A valid opinion about a very disturbing trend in the US legal system. Didn’t we learn anything from our whole Japanese American Internment camp experience? It is extremely important that we stick to our moral high ground, regardless of whatever perceived threat there may be to the citizens of this country–which is probably [...]

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The city of Reykjavik, Iceland will be turning off all their lights for thirty whole minutes.
Lights off – Stars on is a grand scale happening that marks the opening of the Reykjavik International Film Festival. The City Council of Reykjavik and its neighboring municipalities have agreed to turn off all the city lights in the [...]

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About two months ago, Nova Spivack wrote a post entited, The Ontology Integration Problem in which he discusses the problems he’s experienced in developing ontologies for use in his startup company, Radar Networks. The crux of his article is:
In my own experience designing a number of OWL ontologies (500 classes – 3000 classes on [...]

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I just found out that my buddy and co-worky, Rouben Meschian, is part of an Armenian dance troupe. He demonstrated some of his crazy acrobatic skills this morning in the office, and is performing twice this weekend in Boston. Check out the performance flyer, and head down to check out some awesome dance!

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A great set of commercials from Bangkok Insurance.

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Far from being a specifically Muslim problem, religious extremism is found in both Judaism, which had the violent Zionist movement pre-World War II, and Christianity, which had the German Nazis, among many other hate groups. The latest act by a Christian terrorist, as reported here, was a failed car bombing (yes, they’re not just [...]

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On Point had a special a couple days ago on deep drilling, peak oil, and the future of our energy consumption. Evidently the latest oil find by Chevron is more than be 5 miles beneath the ocean’s surface, far deeper than anything that’s been drilled before, right above the earth’s magma, and the [...]

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