A while back I took the plunge and organized my book shelves by color. There is actually a Flickr group devoted to Rainbow Book organization. We didn’t have quite the right mix of books to make a true rainbow, but I’m happy with the results. I think it looks neater and occasionally I can remember what color a book is and locate it quicker than I could when we didn’t have a system.
At some point this summer some weeds showed up in our garden thanks to some seeds that never broke down in our compost/worm bin. We speculated for much of the summer and thought that they were melons, but it turns out that they are Ghost pumpkins from our jack-o-lantern carcasses last year. We will have to remember not to put pumpkin seeds in the compost again this year. I may plant these again someday since it seems like they are the first type of pumpkin that the squirrels and chipmunks in my yard don’t eat.
Last month we had a nerd date and went to see wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales speak at Suffolk University. The topic was Free Speech, Free Minds, Free Markets: Competition and Collaboration. The Bostonist has a great recap of the evening. Wales addressed the future of Web 2.0 and shared his latest project, which is a search-wiki called Wikia Search. This is an open source search engine where user’s can rate results, pushing good results to the top of the page rather than those with the most money.
Thoughts that resonated with me from the lecture:
1. Community Control of products leads to a more global/universal mind thanks to distributed intelligence.
2. A belief in the inherent good of people, meaning that there are more normal people than bad on the internet. Yay Internets!
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