Metaphorical Web

Society has become future oriented. Half a century ago, the future was something that belonged primarily to the domain of a handful of tec...

In the comment stream from recent posts, I've had a couple of people take me to task for making sweeping generalities, and for trying to...

A short post - when I'm not throwing firebombs at big social institutions, I do a lot of work in data modeling, XML and semantics. If yo...

In 1959, author and journalist Vance Packard wrote about the class structures inherent in the US in The Status Seekers . While his work ap...

Once upon a time, there was no such thing as the hourly wage. If you were an independent farmer, you'd sell your grains, cows, pigs an...

Just one of many ways to bring it all to an end. On this day, according to the Mayan Calendar and the hordes of New Age experts who make...

Scotland, Germany, Iceland, Denmark, Finland - one by one a very subtle shift is happening in the world, something that I think will becom...