Who killed the electric car?
September 14, 2006The excellent weekly news program Dateline, on Australian SBS television has a cracker of a story about the U.S. car company General Motors killing the electric car. For a country like Australia with abundant daily sunshine, it’s a no-brainer. The follow up story on electronic rental bicycles in Lyon also resonates now that I’m enjoying…
Banksy strikes again
September 13, 2006Banksy hits Disneyland. Courtesy of Brett. Actually Aussie John Saffran pulled a similar stunt at Disneyland many years ago, planting a fake caption under a photo of Walt, noting his anti-semitism.
Scholars & Artists for International Democracy
September 8, 2006As part of my work in music cognition, I attended the 9th International conference on Music Perception and Cognition. Subsequent to that meeting, a meeting of scholars convened a second meeting of Scholars and Artists for International Democracy, which calls for a return to internationalism and rejects the unprovoked invasion of Iraq and the ongoing…