I’ll be giving a talk in the North Paw and the Pulse Choker at SoOnCon, the Southern Ontario Hackerspace Conference. See the Schedule. My talk is Saturday Oct 2nd at 3:30pm, in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. It should be an awesome time!

Three separate people in the course of several days sent me a link to a NY Times article about how language may shape one’s experiences. In particular, the article discusses geographic languages: languages which do not use the egocentric terms left, right, forward and back to describe relative position. Instead, they use the cardinal directions […]