Individualism, Freedom, and Food
A surprisingly superficial podcast episode on what could have been a very deep subject. Open Source » Blog Archive » The End of Free Will? start a conversation about manipulation, persuasion and...
View ArticleAudio People of the World: "You, Knight!"
Much to be said about a recent ITConversations podcast episode. Ostensibly, this episode was about the LibriVox success story. (LibriVox is a community project producing public domain audiobooks from...
View ArticleJudging Eastern Canadian Espresso
For an ethnographer, it’s always a treat to gain entry in a new group. These past few days, I was given a glimpse, and possibly even some new contacts, into an espresso scene which includes dedicated...
View ArticleTasting Notes: Cuvée Sumatra as Brikka
Some quick tasting notes taken on my iPod touch while drinking a cup of Brikka coffee made with triple-picked Sumatra Mandheling beans from Cuvée Coffee Roasters. These notes aren’t meant as...
View ArticleOmnivoring Conspiracies
Yup, I occasionally like to jump on bandwagons. Especially when they’re full of food and is being mentioned in a video presenting a cool local event in which I happen to take part. Alejna put the final...
View ArticleDevelopment and Quality: Reply to Agile Diary
Former WiZiQ product manager Vikrama Dhiman responded to one of my tweets with a full-blown blogpost, thereby giving support to Matt Mullenweg‘s point that microblogging goes hand-in-hand with...
View ArticleLanding On His Feet: Nicolas Chourot
Listening to Nicolas Chourot‘s début album: First Landing (available on iTunes). Now, here’s someone who found his voice. A few years ago, Nicolas Chourot played with us as part of Madou Diarra &...
View ArticleJazz and Identity: Comment on Lydon's Iyer Interview
Radio Open Source » Blog Archive » Vijay Iyer’s Life in Music: “Striving is the Back Story…”. Sounds like it will be a while before the United States becomes a truly post-racial society. Iyer can...
View ArticleReply to Alex Gagnon’s Google Paradox
[Tried adding a comment directly on Alex Gagnon's Posterous blog, but it kept stalling. So I'll post this here, which may make for a different kind of interaction. Besides, I'd like to blog a bit...
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Some German Movies I Liked
I remember a discussion I had as a kid, about German culture. A normal kind of conversation, in my family. As Francophones of Québécois and Swiss origins, our perspectives on Germany were quite skewed....
View ArticleStill Defining Art?
In a rant about one of the books chosen for Oprah's book club, Salon.com's Hillary Frey attempts to define art negatively: His story might be shocking, but it isn't art. The piece (which looks like a...
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Medici and Innovation
First encountered the notion of the Medici effect through this interview with Frans Johansson in Ubiquity, a journal frequently mentioned on the Humanist Discussion Group. A recent article about...
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