"Clay Shirky looks at "cognitive surplus" -- the shared, online work we do with our spare brain cycles. While we're busy editing Wikipedia, posting to Ushahidi (and yes, making LOLcats), we're building a better, more cooperative world."
My dear friend Jean-Philippe's website dedicated to Galan the paradise in Bigorre. Started in 1998, he sadly died in 2004. A polymath seriously concerned with what it means to be a human being. Use Google translate.