It was nice to be reminded by The New York Times: To Do More. Or Less. Or Something, that in the end, I should not take any system, letting alone the very useful Getting Things Done approach too seriously!)

Fast Company | The 6 Myths Of Creativity is a good article for those interested in fostering creativity in organizations they manage.

For those of us who love the trees on the UcBerkeley campus, go read: 1.26.2004 - Going out on a limb for Berkeley’s venerable trees: "Take away the lecture halls, the brilliant students, the Nobel laureates, even take away the Campanile and the tie-dye, and there'd still be a unique feel to Berkeley. Where to find it? Try the trees."

Every so often, I keep hearing about the unexplained and disquieting electoral irregularities in Ohio. Salon.com News | Investigating Ohio seems to be still timely.

Answers.com: hapa:
The word "hapa" is now used in the mainland United States to describe a person of partial Asian ethnicity. However, some Hawaiians dispute this usage, claiming that the word should only be used to describe people of partial Hawaiian ancestry.

Timmins Web Cam:

The City of Timmins presents you with Timmins Web-Cam; there are two (2) cameras taking live pictures from City Hall and from the Mattagami Region Conservation (MRCA) Building at Gillies Lake.

The New York Times > Technology > Circuits > When the Sous-Chef Is an Inkjet:

But the sushi made by Mr. Cantu, the 28-year-old executive chef at Moto in Chicago, often contains no fish. It is prepared on a Canon i560 inkjet printer rather than a cutting board. He prints images of maki on pieces of edible paper made of soybeans and cornstarch, using organic, food-based inks of his own concoction. He then flavors the back of the paper, which is ordinarily used to put images onto birthday cakes, with powdered soy and seaweed seasonings.

Yesterday, I listenined to NPR : O'Harrow's 'No Place to Hide' from Surveillance:

Robert O'Harrow, Jr. is a reporter for The Washington Post and an associate of the Center for Investigative Reporting. His new book is about how the government is creating a national intelligence infrastructure with the help of private companies as part of homeland security. Huge data-mining operations are contracted by the government to gather information on our daily lives. Information technology has enabled retailers, marketers, and financial institutions to gather and store data about us. O'Harrow's new book about this security-industrial complex is No Place to Hide: Behind the Scenes of Our Emerging Surveillance Society.

In response to the scary stuff I heard, I'd like to learn more about David Brin and his book The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom?. He wrote Salon.com Technology | Three cheers for the Surveillance Society!. See also Wired 4.12: The Transparent Society.