Author: gregoryheller

Here is a cute little video from one of my new favorite magazines, Good. True Majority also has a nice Pie Chart on tax expenditures.

Google Earth has added a Global Awareness Layer that features data from a collaboration with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial on the Genocide in Darfur. It is a very moving presentation of data making Google Earth a valuable tool for education and activism around issues of human rights. The Geospatial data is linked with images and…

If it is to be believed, we may be totally out of luck as a species.

President Rafael Correa ordered his government ministers to meet urgently to discuss ways of preventing environmental degradation in Ecuador’s famed Galapagos Islands. CNN has a story about environmental problems on the Galapagos and the steps that Equador is taking to preserve this unique place on earth. The turtles will be on their way there shortly!

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A last check of the RSS reader brought sad news tonight, Kurt Vonnegut died today at 84. I spent 2 weeks in the summer before my 14th birthday laid up in bed with an unexplained sickness that led to, or followed a spinal tap, depending on how you look at it. Standing was unbearable. I…

The New Organizing Institute has just announced its Summer 2007 Bootcamp early admission application process. NOI trains political organizers to use the new tools of the trade: the internet, blogs, social networking sites, and the like…. The Summer Bootcamp is an all expenses paid opportunity to get up to speed with these tools and get…

My brother sent me this article from the NYT about an internet cafe in NY called Alt.Coffee. Alt(dot) as it was often called was one of the first internet cafes in NYC opening in 1995 with a full T1. I started hanging out there when it first opened and I was a student at NYU.