History

South Dakota Public Radio Memories on the Fourth of July

July 4, 2010 By Brian Leave a Comment

On the fourth of July, 1976--200 years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence--I stood in a corn field on a farm near Brookings, South Dakota. I had just arrived to become Program … [Read more...]

Filed Under: History, Holidays, Music, People, Politics, Society, Technology, Television Tagged With: south dakota

Why Photos and Pictures Are Necessary in Our Lives

November 21, 2009 By Brian Leave a Comment

Are you of a member of an online social media site, have relatives or friends, own a camera (standalone or embedded in your mobile phone), attend parties or other events, read a newspaper or other … [Read more...]

Filed Under: History Tagged With: ancestors, civilization, facebook, photo albums, photos, pictures, relatives, social media

Contracting Universes and the Law of Abundance

November 8, 2009 By Brian Leave a Comment

Before I begin, let me flatly state I'm not a physicist, an economist (heaven, forbid) nor a guru on the lecture circuit telling people how to get wealthy. Neither am I a religious zealot, a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economics, god, History, Internal Peace, Success, universe Tagged With: abundance, contracting universe, cosmology, economy, existence, laws of the universe, possibilities, time, universe

Hard Times Selling Memories to Pay the Light Bill

October 12, 2009 By Brian Leave a Comment

Did you know that Charles Dickens wrote "Hard Times" because he needed the money? Flash forward to 2009 in the U.S. where people--mostly elderly--sell their gold and silver jewelry, cameos, old … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economy, family, History, Jobs, People Tagged With: economy, gas bills, gold jewelry, light bll, memories, recession, sell memory, todd tyre

Cannabis Clubs for People with Pain Hit San Jose

People suffering with painful illnesses keep getting hit up by city law enforcement. They’re at least 20 states across the nation where cannabis clubs that secure pot for medicinal purposes flourish. And San Jose is one of them. Per this morning’s Mercury News, patients used to have to trek up to San Francisco to get [...]

Great White Sharks Visit Golden Gate Bridge

Californian’s are a strange lot, no doubt, but neither earthquakes nor floods nor swine flu nor collapsing bridges bring us to our knees. And that goes for sharks too. We’re a hardy bunch here in the Bay Area and we treat recent reports of great whites poking around the Golden Gate Bridge like water off [...]

MobiSnippets are Coming Soon? What are MobiSnippets? What Do They Want?

They’re’s a rumor that something called “MobiSnippets”are coming to MobileBeyond, MobileDiscoveries, IM-Mobile and my personal blog. So I’ve scratched my head, asked all the neighbors what they are, and no one can tell me. Suzie told me they’re not sharks like the ones that visited the Golden Gate Bridge. Or those icebergs that invaded New [...]

Passionate People Colliding with Passionate People

It’s very energizing to meet people who share similar interests. It’s like an auto collision without the damage. For me, this week has been a series of “people collisions” as I’ve met mobile professionals in San Francisco at the annual Smaato advertising events. Wednesday night, I was part of a roundtable discussion with app developers, [...]

Health Care Reform for the Good of All

Well, the 2010 mid-term elections are over. And it’s still clear to me that democracies are wonderful but they suck when it comes to reaching consensus on critical issues like health care reform. Once again, the Wall Street Journal, reiterates tired, trendy phrases for many of its readers. In today’s editorial–”the ObamaCare Crossroads–we read: “In [...]

How We Spend Our Time as Unemployment Rises

Once again, the researchers are at work with their computer models and statistical flukes. In this case, the Labor Department recently released its 2009 American Time Use Survey telling us how people spend their time. According to the experts, here’s how we’re using our time in hours and minutes (2009/2007): Sleeping (8:40/8:34) Watching TV (2:49/2:37) [...]

Internet Privacy in a Sea of Web Cookies

Worried about Internet privacy, web monitoring, flash cookies and who’s watching your website activity? Need better privacy protection in your life? Read on. Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal published the first article in a series called “The Web’s New Gold Mine: Your Secrets,” a comprehensive piece describing how ad networks and Internet tracking companies are [...]

Reality In a Land of Dreams and Nightmares

I awakened the other morning while still in REM dream sleep. Although I don’t recall if my eyes opened into reality from a dream or nightmare (it could have been a mix of both), I was uncomfortable with the experience. You’ve probably experienced a similar occurrence as your alarm clock went off. You’re in a [...]