Things Are Good

Its Fashion week in Madrid, but many of the models will be heading home rather than down the catwalk as organizers say they are too thin.
Although it provoked outrage in the modeling community, regional government organizes and sponsors of this international event say this year they want to portray an image of health and beauty [...]

This month at BCE Place in Toronto there is an exhibition of Roger Hooper’s photographs called “Living Planet”. Roger Hooper, founder and owner of Hoopers Gallery in London, England, is a dedicated wildlife photographer and supporter of World Wildlife  Fund.  The images feature threatened environments from around the globe, including the Arctic, Africa and India. All profits [...]

Google is not perfect, but sometimes they do things that make them look they are trying to be wonderful to all people. Their motto is “don’t be evil.” Even though they are self-censoring in China, unlike Wikipedia (something that all ThingsAreGood readers already know), Google has released banned books.
Now you can read books that have [...]

Phire writes in to tell us that comas may not be so bad:
“60% of supposedly vegetative/braindead patients are waking up, recovering, getting better after being administered something as simple as a common sleeping pill.”
It’s rather ironic that when someone sleeps too long a sleeping pill can wake them up.

Wikipedia, that great resource for all sorts of information, is refusing to censor itself to gain an audience in China. The site was censored by China in October of last year because it has bad things to say about the country according to the Chinese leadership.
The founder of Wikipedia has “challenged other internet companies, [...]

As I sit typing this post, I’m listening to the Tragically Hip, downloading a 24 lecture series on Science to my iPod and I just listened to an inspiring speech by William McDonough (I highly recommend him as THE resource for environmental design). So I cant help but think of all the positive changes computers [...]