Cory Doctorow
Coeditor of Boing Boing (www.boingboing.net), fellow of the Elecronic Frontier Foundation, spoke last week at SFU. Title of his talk was: The Totalitarian Urge: Total Information Awareness and the Cosmic Billiards. Too bad I missed it.
Mocky
I finally looked at what my friend Isobel’s son "Mocky" is up to - very funky.
http://www.mockyrecordings.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5JIoqV8bmc&mode=related&search=
Mexico - books
Carlos Fuentes - A New Time for Mexico
Mexican Calendar Girls
Mexican Tiles - Angela Villalba
Secrets of Shamanism - Stevens
Medicine Quest - Mark Plotkin
The War of the Fatties - Salvador Novo
Ajijic: Behind the Walls by Alison Pickering
Guadalajara - hotel
Hotel San Franscico Plaza - central, clean, comfortable beds, quiet rooms off back courtyard
Barra de Navidad
Hotel Barra de Navidad - hotel right on the beach see www.hotelbarradenavidad.com email hotel_barra@yahoo.com
Tonala - Hotel and other places of interest
Hotel Haceinda del Sol
El Alcatraz Fabricantes de vidrio soplado y yeso - Calle 16 de Septiembre #208
Alex Sary (tiles and sinks) - Av. Tonaltecas No. 136 lacasadelatalevera@hotmail.com
Recommended authors (fiction)
David Mitchell: see cbc review at http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/mitchell.html
T.C. Boyle: see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._Coraghessan_Boyle
Gregory David Roberts: see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shantaram_(novel)
Carlos Ruiz Zafon - Shadow of the Wind
James Crumley - The Last Good Kiss
A Short History of Corporations (New Internationalist, 2002) - article available on-line
The July 2002 edition of the New Internationalist magazine focusses on corporations, including this article, A Short History of Corporations. Interestingly enough they seem to have begun In Europe as not-for profit entities.
This article is available on-line at http://newint.org/features/2002/07/01/history-of-corporations
