Category: Fire (Social)

The latest issue of Organic Bytes came with the usual doom and gloom headlines – Scary Chocolate, Climate Chaos, Bird Flu & more…. But amidst it all there were some highlights, signs of that utopian healthier world in the making I’m hoping to bequeath to my great great (great?) grandchildren. India has halted all field… Continue reading Give me the good news

I’m enjoying reading Collapse by Jared Diamond, and I’ve been pleasantly surprised to learn a lot more than I expected, and gain some interesting new perspectives on a number of situations. The book paints a picture of the collapse or success of a number of historical societies, such as Easter Island, the Anasazi, Maya, the… Continue reading Collapse – Rwanda and Australia

Day 1 of the DCI has been great. Some of the delegates attended the Highway Africa conference as well, which ran until the previous day, and the feeling towards that conference seems to have been ambivalence (at best). Lots of corporate speak, and not as much content as they’d have hoped. A classic rant about… Continue reading Digital Citizens Indaba – Day 1

Watching today’s rugby test between South Africa and Australia, there was a certain irony in an ad that ran during a break. It was for a Ford bakkie, and features a proud dad-to-be making the Fords do all sorts of tough bakkie-like things to build a rugby field, presumably as a gift for his soon-to-be-born… Continue reading What if it’s a girl

I missed the previous screening of the documentary the Future of Food, but this time was invited to participate as part of the Ethical Co-op, along with other NGO’s such as SAFeAGE. I attended the final evening at the Labia. The film is a documentary about GM foods, focusing on the sorry situation in the… Continue reading The Future of Food

Whales Revenge is an ambitious campaign to gather 1 million signatures for a petition to stop whaling. At the rate the signatures are appearing when I checked, they should do it quite easily. There’s also a flash game where you get to assist the Greenpeace ships and sink the whalers 🙂

I’ve come across a great little online game that I’ve been enjoying – the McDonalds video game. I remember from my student days the Arts department printing a T-shirt implying that Arts graduates only prospect of employment was at McDonalds. I still take it as a point of pride that I’ve never eaten anything from… Continue reading Your chance to run McDonalds into the ground

That wonderful international festival, the World Cup, is underway. In what other arena can we see Iran beat the USA or Trinidad and Tobago match Sweden. Perhaps Angola will shock Portugal later today too. I read today that 80% of surveyed woman in South Africa will watch some of the games, the assumption I suppose… Continue reading First few days of the World Cup

I was interested to read Bizcommunity’s article Mutiny on the Mail & Guardian blog. Blogmark (I still call it Blogspot, though any links referring to the old name don’t even work anymore, a big web no-no) has been plagued by technical problems. I subscribe to their RSS feed, and keep an eye on what’s happening,… Continue reading M&G Blogmark mutiny

OK, well not quite – apparently the figure is closer to 23 000. But that phenomonen that so many tried to copy, the Million Dollar homepage, is back in the news again. Alex Tew, who came up with the idea, promised his advertisers that their ads would remain visible for up for 5 years. A… Continue reading Millions of zombies attack Million Dollar Homepage