Recent Links » October 2006
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- Bringing Jung into the intregral fold → Some Ken Wilberites but heads with Jung, who I personally think was a *true* master…
- US ‘losing media war to al-Qaeda’ → And from earlier this year, featuring some of the same stock photos: “The US is losing the propaganda war against al-Qaeda and other enemies, defence chief Donald Rumsfeld has said.”
- Pentagon boosts ‘media war’ unit → “The US defence department has set up a new unit to better promote its message across 24-hour rolling news outlets, and particularly on the internet.”
- College Makeover → “Morality Based Learning” - An article on Slate that asks prominent academics how we should re-invent higher education
- Your secrets not so safe with RFID-enabled passports → Oh goody!
- Four Evangelists (Tetramorphs) → Another related item on angels and evangelists
- Cherubim → Nice brief intro to the subject by our friend Jennifer Emick
- Web cookies become defendant’s alibi → “A Texas man says the timestamp of cookies on his Web browser proves he was actually online and not where prosecutors claim he was.”
- Adapting permaculture zones and sectors for the city → Updating the more agrarian thinking of permaculture for urban settings
- Liberal Religion in the Post Christian Era → Delivered at the Unitarian Universalist Association General Assembly in 1974
- Online rival for Wikipedia → “Citizendium” is being created by one of the original founders of Wikipedia, hoping to solve some of the problems associated with that site.
- 7-Eleven yanks ‘Cocaine’ drink → A cheesy yet horrific marketing program for an energy drink named after a drug
- The Jazz Church of St. John Coltrane → An article about that church…
- Saint John Coltrane Church → Awesome sounding church in San Francisco where everyone plays music as part of their service
- Man stuck in Denver with amnesia is identified → This dude didn’t know who he was for over a month!
- Gift of Grace → Another local church, this one a Lutheran one that seems to be super open to people of all walks of life
- Compline → A weekly chanting session that occurs in Seattle’s St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral. I may go to it tonight!
- Nalanda West → A Buddhist study and meditation center close by in Seattle
- Church of the Apostles → An emerging church in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood
- Monkfish Abbey is a church with a difference → A local spiritual community here in Seattle
- Got a shot of inner fuel! → Pretty cool blog similar in subject matter to Pop Occulture
- Zombie hunters in demand in Sweden → Some kind of PR stunt it looks like…
- Huge-Entity → A great blog returns to the scene after a short hiatus
- How Intentions Manifest → Personal development guru Steve Pavlina describes his techniques for manifesting reality
- The Flying Karamazov Brothers → Google video about how to juggle
- Paintball Pete → Blog parodying the Fundamentalist Christian pastor who went on a paintball shooting spree with his child at Halloween
- “Progress or Return? The Contemporary Crisis in Western Civilization” → “Two [Leo Strauss] lectures delivered at the B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundation, the University of Chicago, November 5 and 12, 1952″ (PDF Warning!)
- What’s Next? → Douglas Rushkoff theorizes that the internet is a “dry run” for a global consciousness
- Scientology Gets Nipped and Tucked → Scientology gets pulled into the television vortex of “Nip/Tuck”
- False religion (the golden calf) → An excellent Muslim interpretation of Tafsir (Sura 7: verse 152), the story of Moses and the Golden Calf
- Mimicking Brain’s “All Clear” Quell’s Fear in Rats → “Researchers funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) have discovered a high tech way to quell panic in rats.” Which I’m sure will come in handy when they decide to exterminate us like rats!
- Towards an Ecology of the Self → “A small booklet exploring the role of the ‘personal’ in permaculture design systems.”
- First Invisibility Cloak Tested Successfully, Scientists Say → “Researchers announced today that they’ve built the world’s first invisibility cloak, although the fine print may disappoint science-fiction fans.”
- Chertoff: The internet is turning people into terrorists → As predicted by me, here. Consider yourselves radicalized!
- Abbas favors temporary government of technocrats → Palestinian leader openly calls for the institution of a temporary technocracy… What?
- Study: Virtual colonoscopy as good as other kind → Hilarious medical headline!
- New research car will watch you while you drive → Engadget says: “We’re not sure if we like the idea of our car watching us as we drive, but we’ll all in favor of any tech that’ll make us safer.” Typical technocratic thinking…
- The Disappearance of Time → “Kurt Godel and the Idealistic Tradition in Philosophy”
- South Korean foreign minister named next U.N. leader → This is coming awfully close on the heels of that supposed nuclear test by N. Korea. Could Central Casting be planning a Korean War: Part Deux? Stay tuned folks! We’ll be right back after you enjoy these messages from our sponsor!
- An Introduction to Common Exotic Species to British Columbia’s Ecosystems → “Plants you know, but didn’t know they didn’t belong”
- The Pursuit of Cool → “Introduction to Anti-Hyper-Consumerism” by Douglas Rushkoff
- StoryEvent → Described by a person who emailed me as a sort of cross between MySpace and American Idol for writers
- Balance of Power → “Your workout can build your body — or break it. Which path are you on?”
- Ecological Collapse, Trauma Theory and Permaculture → From the journal of the international community for ecopsychology…
- Yoga and Pranayama ( Breathing) Infocenter → “A more useful science than the science of respiration, a more beneficial science than the science of respiration, a greater friend than the science of respiration has never been seen nor heard.” – Shivagama
- Jesus Christ Master Mason → Jesus Christ and Freemasonry
- Police Find Burgers Sprinkled With Pot → New! At Burger King!
- Cola consumption linked to weaker bones in women → Oh my god! What a fucking shock! Soda is bad for you?! NO WAY!!!
- Idiocracy → Movie review on Onion’s A.V. Club
- Free Idiocracy! → Read the script of the new Mike Judge movie you can’t see anywhere
- This Israel → An article about Jacob wrestling with the Angel from a Muslim viewpoint, looking at the modern state of Israel today
- Divine beauty, even when munching on the dead → “Eastern goddesses are gracing the Art Gallery of NSW, writes Joyce Morgan.”
- Abducted by aliens? Call now for compensation → A German lawyer is hoping to drum up business among UFO abductees
- More Moons Around Earth? Its Not So Loony → A look at Cruitne, Earth’s second moon (actually an asteroid)
- Some Tech-Gen Youth Go Offline → Wired news article about how some twenty-somethings are becoming fed up with social networking and other online activities in favor of real human interaction
- Crystal Waters → A permaculture eco-village in Australia
- Seeds for Thought → “This is a collective blog by different members of the International Community for Ecopsychology.”
- Schumacher International Centre for Ecological Studies → An invitation to apply for scholarships to this awesome center in the UK (although unfortunately this page is quite old)
- Good, Evil, and Karma: Manifolds and Systems → Our very own Slomo takes on some interesting topics from a scientific/spiritual perspective
- A Constitutional Shredding: Rounding Up U.S. Citizens → “Because the bill was adopted with lightning speed, barely anyone noticed that it empowers Bush to declare not just aliens, but also U.S. citizens, “unlawful enemy combatants.”"
- Colleges coveting home-schooled students → What a shock, that colleges are realizing people with public education have received a more or less worthless education!
- US plans massive data sweep → “Little-known data-collection system could troll news, blogs, even e-mails. Will it go too far?” Haha, no! Of course it won’t go too far! That never happens!
- Google Said in Talks to Buy YouTube → Very little surprise here, since the venture capital company that initially funded Google also funded YouTube
- Making Water From Thin Air → The first ever not-totally-evil research project I have heard about to come out of DARPA: a means of creating water from the air…
- Schumaker College → “Schumacher College is an international centre for ecological studies based in the beautiful Devonshire countryside of south-west England.”
- How to Shoot Yourself in the Foot in Any Programming Language → Funny if you are a *nerd*!
- MoodGrapher → Web application uses data from LiveJournal “moods” to do real-time analysis of how people on the internet are “feeling” at any given moment
- Robert Anton Wilson Online Library → Texts that have been important to the life or writings of RAW
- Synergetics → Online copy of the Buckminster Fuller book
- Vatican Assassins → Somebody sent this video to me on Google a while ago, which is supposed to be a conspiratorial look at the Jesuit order
- Interview with author of book about US fringe religions → Interview with JC Hallman, about his book “The Devil is a Gentleman” which is about his “experiences hanging out with members of eight different fringe religious communities, including Satanists, Scientologists, Atheists, Druids, Unarians, Wiccans, and Orthodox Christian monks.”
- World Cup Witchcraft → “Africa Teams Turn to Magic for Aid”
- The Late Night Triad → “In this installation, from a broader series begun in 1997, 64 nights’ worth of the major US late night talk shows have been aligned and averaged using basic transformations. The result is a triptych of video projections with soundtrack, presenting an amalgamation of monologues which reveals the ghosts of repetitious structure and nightly activity.”
- Cross Purposes → “As older Seattle churches struggle to stay afloat, new churches are attracting urban hipsters with club-like venues, punk rock, and joke-filled sermons—and a social agenda that would make Jerry Falwell proud.”
- Website of James Williams → An 18 year old with high-functioning autism who has co-authored some books and speaks at autism conferences
- Hubbert’s Prescription for Survival, A Steady State Economy → From the guy who brought you Peak Oil comes… Technocracy! Coming soon to global theatres near you!
- Hot and Cold: Crucial Aspects of Herbalism → “This lecture gives you some of the the keys to unlock the world of healing with herbs.”
- FolkStreams.net → A National Preserve of Documentary Films about American Roots Cultures
- Girl in far western Nepal emits ‘glass pieces’ from forehead → What the hell?
- Indian inquiry finds Pakistan’s spy agency planned bombings → What the heck? A spy agency being behind terrorist bombings? Why, that’s impossible! Interesting to see how this plays out…
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