An excellent and snarky review of the new American monster classic cloverfield by Bill Blogins over @ Wicked Theory

Of course schools kill creativity! Schools are run by bloated, behemoth governmental bureaucracies and don't benefit from free-market private competition.

Now some of you are probably saying, "But won't it be outrageously expensive to send my child to school in a free-market education system?" Well, at first, yes. But if you look at every other product or service created in the last 50 years, the first, let's say, decade or so was when that product or service was at its most expensive. After that, because of greater efficiency and innovation, prices decreased rapidly while quality increased, making those services and products more widely available. Now this wasn't because the government stepped in and started pushing companies in the "right" direction. It was individuals with creative goals, who pursued those goals ruthlessly and efficiently.That by definition is the free-market at work. Why wouldn't it be the same for education?

I'm a firm believer that innovation and progress are driven by individuals and private companies who are willing to take creative risks in the pursuit of their goals. If you look at the examples of true progress and innovation throughout the history of this worm shit smeared ball of rock we call home you'll notice that governments are not the movers and shakers they'd like us to think they are. Individuals and the companies they founded are who aren't afraid to take risks and in turn drive innovation and progress.

Schooling our young should be undertaken with the same commitment to innovation and creativity as any other product or service out there.

And here's a different though quite entertaining point of view:



Link here for more creative ideas in technology, engineering, design and a great deal more





*note: Any figures I may quote are strictly made up

I'm not much for government aid in any respect, I'm more a private charity kind of guy. But this lecture by Bjorn Lomborg is quite provocative and thought-provoking, and the ideas he presents could probably be used by both governments and private charity to help prioritize the worlds problems.

These two awesome technologies need to be combined and fast because I want one! Gimme, gimme, gimme!







Links here and here

This video says it all.

Why is it when you have a political or religious debate with someone you're demonized for disagreeing with some one else's point of view? Am I really an evil bastard for believing the voracity of the Theory of Evolution or for the Political belief that government should stick to Police, Courts and the Military? Penn Says I'm not and I don't think I am either but we could both be wrong.

Let's ask Rives.
Rives?




For more Entertaining and Poignant lectures visit TED

Can't sleep. And my dog keeps licking the soles of my feet.

Would it be wrong to "accidentally" throw my dog out the window?

Don't worry the question was rhetorical. Time to go back to bed and try to get some sleep.



Update: Threw the dog out the window. Gonna be really awkward explaining to the neighbors why there's dog bits all over their lawn.

An excellent post/review of the new Indiana Jones movie can be found here by my friend Bill Blogins over @ Wicked Theory here on Blogger/Blogspot.

If you're looking for someone who has an almost encyclopedic knowledge of modern popular culture this is your guy.

Good Evening Dear Reader,

My name's Don, but you can call me Professor Politico (I'll get to the meaning of this name in a moment).

To start I'm a bit of an intellectual, more Penn Jillette than Nietzsche, but that's a story for another time maybe. I'm also an "Autodidact" and a voracious reader. I live for Politics and Philosophy, but hate politicians and philosophers (I have this thing about being told how to live my life). I love Science,Technology, and Design, but have no discernible computer or design skills(this post is taking the better part of an hour). And I am considered by most of the people I know to be a huge geek.

Now, to explain why I chose the name Professor Politico; The Professor part of this name comes from the endless amounts of useless information that's stored in my malformed noggin (what can I say it's a gift and a curse). The Politico part comes from my almost obsessive consumption of all things politics. Now you're saying to yourself, "Self, do I really need to read another socio-political/entertainment/technology blog? There's already a ton of them out there (BoingBoing.net comes to mind). This guy's just a small first time blogger. Could he really have anything new and unique to say?" Well I would like to think that I do have some new and unique views on politics and philosophy as well as pop culture, entertainment, and technology, but only time will tell. Do you have to read any of it? No. To be brutally honest I'm not really doing this for you, Dear Reader. I'm doing this for me. So if you like what you see and read, great. If not, that's fine too. Hopefully you'll take something away with you when( or if) you visit this site.



Regards,

Professor Politico