Tame Bear’s New iPad

This is a very exciting time in the life of Tame Bear. You'll see why when you watch this video. (Watch it full-screen if you can. And if you love ...

What Is a Traffic Exchange?

A Traffic Exchange is a web site where participating members spend time viewing each other's web pages. "I look at your web page, you look at mine." That's the essential ...

The Reckoning & Renaissance To Come

Few know it now, but we stand at the leading edge of one of the greatest cultural and spiritual renaissances the world has ever known. We have emerged from the ...

Do Not Fear… But Imagine the Best

If The Bear appears to write often without making reference to God, it's because God runs through all-that-is without ever being a separate thing. I do not wish to invoke the ...

Twitter Predicts the Stock Market

Surely 9.8 million tweets can't be wrong. Computer scientists analyzed millions of tweets from 2008, characterizing trends in "mood dimensions" with evocative  names such as "Calm," "Alert," "Vital," "Sure," "Kind," ...

What is “real” ?

So a couple weeks ago, The Bear discovered Quora, and signed up. Pretty quickly, I got an email from Quora, asking if "Tame Bear" was in fact my real name ...

Why Everybody Needs an Autoresponder

Everybody needs an autoresponder. Why? If you want to communicate with one person you can send an email. If you want to communicate with a group of people, you need ...

Goin’ to Burning Man

Big adventure: The Bear is going to the annual Burning Man festival out on the salt flats of the Black Rock Desert in Nevada. Here in home-town Goshen Indiana, it's ...

Docked iPad is a Mac!

David Abramowitz has posted a speculation on Macintouch that The Bear thinks is just way cool... Imagine an iPad that you dock. When it's docked, it is a fully-functional Macintosh ...

The Greatest Mystery Ever

What is reality? At its most fundamental level, reality is very strange. Subatomic particle physicists, theoretical quantum physicists, cosmologists, string theorists, and multiverse theory mathematicians are all working to get ...