Gil Friend’s Blog

Grand Gestures From Big Names. Join Bill Gates, Michael Dell, and J&J in improving the world. [The Motley Fool] Families that have household incomes of $100,000 or less contribute 59% of all philanthropic dollars, according to a study by the Center on Philanthropy...

I just stumbled across one of the more interesting pieces of business thinking I've seen in a long time. [VentureBlog]: Chris Anderson's observation in a recent Wired Magazine article is that the 80/20 rule exists in the physical world because you chop off the long...

[The Darwin Project]: In the Descent  of Man Charles  Darwin wrote only twice of "survival of the fittest" -- but 95  times about love! 92 times about moral sensitivity. And  200 times about brain and mind. Suppression over 100 years of the real...

[James Carroll, in the Boston Globe, via Shalom Center]: The Politics of the Christmas Story THE SINGLE most important fact about the birth of Jesus, as recounted in the Gospels, is one that receives almost no emphasis in the American festival of Christmas. The child...

(and Iran.) Another indicator of the tough geopolitical times ahead.  [Sudan Tribune]: But the Chinese laborers are protected: They work under the vigilant gaze of Sudanese government troops armed largely with Chinese-made weapons -- a partnership of the world's...

[Joho the Blog]: Pigeon view Here's an odd idea. The Urban Eyes proposal by by Marcus Kirsch (UK) and Jussi Angesleva (Ireland) would feed pigeons tiny RFID transmitters embedded in bird seed. When a transmitting pigeon passed close enough to one of the CCTV cameras...

[Harvard Gazette]: Mayor Mockus of Bogot½ and his spectacularly applied theory