Posts Tagged ‘Hunting’

Eric Hunting on Defining Post-Industrial Design

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
Looking at the different Maker blogs, I could see that there was an emergent set of information standards forming ad hoc by a popularity-driven process of selection as well as limitations -chiefly in graphics as people generally can’t produce their own drawn illustrations so resort to photos and video. The people who first started publishing recipes for making things on sites like the Make blog and Instructibles had no preconceived notion of the format of presentation for those recipes. So what

My pet duck: Why does fate smile on some but not others?

Saturday, October 24th, 2009
Three weeks ago, Bernadette was a training duck, destined to give her life to teach another generation of working retrievers how to do their jobs. Now, she’s living in my chicken pen. And she was the one who changed her own fate. Before I tell her story, I must insert my views about meat and about hunting, which are, um, fairly unusual among self-identified animal lovers, the majority of whom are just fine with cruelty to food animals as long as they don’t have to watch the living and the

10 Recently Extinct Animals

Saturday, July 25th, 2009
Mankind has the honor of quite possibly being the most destructive force to ever hit mother nature. This list looks at some of the more recent, probably lesser known extinctions that humans have lent a helping hand to. Whether by over hunting or over population, driving a species to extinction is nothing to be proud of and it’s certainly not slowing down. 10 Thylacine Commonly known as the Tasmanian Tiger, the Thylacine was the largest known carnivorous marsupial of modern