One of the great things about being a geek is that there are so many cool things happening to keep life exciting. Today, courtesy of News.com comes word of an Robert Swan’s Antarctic adventure and the on-line window into the mission. I’m going to be following Swan as he progresses, just like I’ve followed missions from groups like the Cousteau Society.

We’ve been inundated with news about pedophiles, terrorists, and other assorted bad-guys using the Internet, so I think it’s important to keep the good stuff in mind, too. There are a lot of journalists and pundits who are more than happy to write headlines designed to scare the bejabbers out of folks, and the knee-jerk reaction is to write new rules and laws to regulate on-line behavior. I’m very much a free-speech absolutist–I think that the best protection from bad ideas is a greater volume of good ideas, and I can’t think of a single governmental entity (or trans-governmental entity) that I trust to tell me which is which.

Enough of the soapbox–there are more adventures to find on- (and off-) line.

Categories: General computing