Recent Links » November 2006
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- Chemotherapy temporarily alters brain structure → What a fucking shocker!
- The Memory Pill → “If you experienced a painful or traumatic event, would you want a pill which could lessen the bad memories of what happened? That option might soon be here because of a drug called propranolol.”
- Samson Blinded: A Machiavellian Perspective on the Middle East Conflict → Received this in an email recently: “Google banned our website from its advertising program for “unacceptable content,” and Amazon deleted all reviews. The book, however, is only honest, and the measures suggested are only rational. Shoher is a pen name for veteran politician. He dealt with antiterrorism issues for most of his career. The Samson Blinded dissects honestly the problems accumulated since the Jews returned to Palestine. Advocating political rationalism, it deplores both Jewish and Muslim myths, and argues for efficiency and separating politics from moralism.”
- U.S. mint pushes new $1 coin → “Hopes that images of past presidents will entice consumers to break their reluctance to dollar coins; Nixon coin slated for 2016.”
- Hitachi: Commercial Mind-Machine Interface by 2011 → Shit’s inevitable folks. Doesn’t mean it’s going to be all that positive though.
- Professors get ‘F’ in copyright protection knowledge → “Book publishers say professors who post long excerpts of protected texts on the Internet without permission cost the industry at least $20 million a year.” I say good, fuck them for making college text books $100 a pop!
- Rumsfeld and a mountain of misery → Donald Rumsfeld owns a plantation where Frederick Douglass was once held and tortured as a slave
- Scientists Create Cloak of Partial Invisibility → ” Scientists have created a cloaking device that can reroute certain wavelengths of light, forcing them around objects like water flowing around boulders in a stream. To creatures or machines that see only in microwave light, the cloaked object would appear nearly invisible.”
- Movie on Jesus’ birth debuts at Vatican → Yep.
- Chapter 12 - The Emergence of the Community → An excerpt (and a bad one) from a booked called “Communities Dominate Brands”
- Broadcast Machine → A free open-source online television software platform that looks pretty cool. Basically enables you to create your own television station online
- ARQuake → “ARQuake is an Augmented Reality version of the popular Quake game by id Software. Created in the Wearable Computer Lab at the University of South Australia, ARQuake provides a first-person shooter that allows the user to run around in the real world whilst playing a game in the computer generated world. The system uses GPS, a hybrid magnetic and inertial orientation sensor, a custom made gun controller, and a standard laptop carried on a backpack.”
- Nokia: Mobile Augmented Reality Applications → Some prototype technology which will integrate augmented reality (AR) into cell phones
- Hyperlinking Reality via Phones → “Nokia researchers are working on a system that allows physical objects to be identified and connected to the Internet through mobile-phone screens.”
- Augmented Reality: Hyperlinking to the Real World → “”In the future, we will not be getting information principally or exclusively through looking at a computer screen, but by looking at something that’s in the real world and a display that’s integrated with that,” Henry Fuchs, a computer science professor at the University of North Carolina, told TechNewsWorld.”
- The Future of Cell Phones → More stuff on the directions cell phone technology is expected to take over the next few years including… nanotech?
- Phone to Carry Video Projector → Several companies are scrambling to make the leap into projector technology with cell phones
- SMLXL → A marketing company devoted to “engagement” marketing.
- On Engagement Marketing → Engagement marketing is based around the “novel” idea that companies should engage consumers in meaningful dialogue to promote healthy relationships. What an astonishing way of thinking! (FYI Sarcasm abounds in the above statement)
- Online Marketing At The Crossroads → A meeting related to the transition towards consumer-dominated brand ownership
- Hebrew Names of God → The Spirit of God as revealed in the Tanakh
- Porn sparks panda baby boom in China → They are showing porn to pandas in China to get them to mate - and it’s working apparently!
- Doubt and the Vain Search for Certainty → Interesting piece from Ravi Zacharias’ Christian site
- BBC - Parallel Universes → A BBC documentary on parallel universes, obviously.
- Portland Alien Museum → Their website certainly leaves something to be desired, but maybe it’s cool in person?
- Blind Teenager Uses Echolocation Like Dolphins → This story is interesting enough on its own but is made ten times weirder by the way the news people cover it
- QuakerQuaker → Quaker blog aggregator - will be checking this out more later! I wanna check out some Quaker meetings sometime soon.
- “Friday Night At The Meaningful Movies” → Awesome documentaries and films sponsored by our very own Wallingford Neighbors for Peace and Justice
- Israel developing anti-militant “bionic hornet” → Finally! Just what we needed! “Israel is using nanotechnology to try to create a robot no bigger than a hornet that would be able to chase, photograph and kill its targets, an Israeli newspaper reported on Friday.” In what way that is “anti-militant” I have no idea!
- Train to be a Witch → A pretty funny ad from my Gmail account: “Wicca Degree Programs, Attainment & Advanced Wiccan Certifications”
- Testimony of Simplicity → “the Quaker belief that a person ought to live his or her life simply in order to focus on what is most important and ignore or downplay what is least important”
- Sustainable living → A “lifestyle that could, hypothetically, be sustained unmodified for many generations without exhausting any natural resources”
- Four Pillars of the Green Party → Basic principles of the Green Party
- Appropriate technology → “Using the simplest and most benign level of technology that can effectively achieve the intended purpose in a particular location”
- Food Miles → How many miles does the food you eat travel to get to you?
- The Value of Voluntary Simplicity → Lengthy text available online
- How many mammals are monogamous? → Another hit on the “doubting monogamy” social trend…
- Seattle Permaculture Guild → Resource to connect with others in Seattle interested in Permaculture
- Simply Living → Another resource on voluntary simplicity
- The Simple Living Network → “Transform Your Life By Learning To Do More With Less”
- Simple Living → Nice basic intro to “voluntary simplicity” on Wikipedia
- Kundalini → Mainly linking to this page because of the cool animated diagram
- Historical Sources of Kundalini Knowledge → Cross-cultural comparison of information on Kundalini energy
- Christ & The Kundalini → A comparison of Hindu spirituality with Christian gnostic texts
- Knight of faith → A character out of Kierkegaard’s Christian existentialist philosophy
- TECHNOSHAMANISM: Digital Deities in Cyberspace → A Christian perspective on people like Douglas Rushkoff and Tim Leary
- The Social Responsibility in Teaching Sociobiology → A look at some of the ethical implications of sociobiology and evolutionary psychology
- Ross Jeffries Speed Seduction - Fear Into Charisma → Apparently this video is a good example of how NLP is used, according to someone who themselves is a practitioner and recommended this to me
- Alliance to Rescue Civilization → You’d think a group with a title like that could maybe muster up a better web site
- How can I become a Mason? → Simple instructions from a UK lodge
- Covert preaching of banned cleric → “A banned cleric is still preaching support for terrorism to young British Muslims by appearing incognito on the internet, the BBC has learned.”
- BAE goes big on ‘green’ weapons → Save natural resources while you kill the people who own them!
- Two professors win right to toke up at work → Canadian medical marijuana efforts march forward
- TED Talks: Audio & Video Downloads → “Each year, TED hosts some of the world’s most fascinating people: Trusted voices and convention-breaking mavericks, icons and geniuses.”
- David Octavius - A Discourse on a New Constitution → An ad I followed for his website claims: “Its not the politicians, its the system - we need a new constitution”
- Video game where Jews and Atheists must be killed or converted due for Christmas → The title pretty much says it all with this one
- ‘Sexualized atmosphere’ in county jail, study says → Straight from King County to you…
- Brain Changes While Speaking in Tongues → A scientific study of glossolalia
- How can I form my own political party? → No surprise this question comes out of Humboldt county
- Scientology Orientation Video → Looks to be a bootleg home video recording of a Scientology Orientation video playing
- Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 → Which I read the other night and found great significance within….
- Index of details about our Midwayer and other friends → Details about various angels associated with the 11:11 tradition.
- 11:11 - What is it about? What does it all mean? → Angels called the Midwayers who try to contact you through clock signals
- Microchips becoming the latest medical accessory → A headline that doesn’t report news so much as seek to cause trends if I ever saw one…
- Mirror test implies elephants self-aware → Animals are intelligent? Preposterous! (Just kidding, of course)
- Second Life Villains → Scroll down to the part where it talks about “The Underworld” and features some characters who have been permanently banished from Second Life
- Bill Gates in “Teen Beat” c1983 → Ooh that sexy sexy man
- Freak One-Eyed Monster Storm Spotted on Saturn → And it is certainly weird looking as well!
- Rogue Elephants in the NY Times → Elephants who “rape and kill rhinoceroses; attack villages with intelligent measures like blocking escape routes and pinning down humans before goring them to death; and display psychological traits previously only observed in people.”
- On the Edge of Blade Runner → Supposed to be a good Blade Runner documentary but I haven’t watched it yet
- Army Experts: Unconventional Conflicts to Dominate Future Operations → Oh, what a surprise!
- “The Thing That I Call Doug” → A talk with media theorist Douglas Rushkoff
- Neurodiversity → “Neurodiversity is a concept that atypical (neurodivergent) neurological wiring is a normal human difference that is to be tolerated and respected as any other human difference.”
- Nun gets 30 years for aiding Rwandan genocide → “A Roman Catholic nun has been sentenced to 30 years for helping militia kill hundreds of people hiding in a hospital during Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, an official said Friday.”
- Chickens, not children, at “ghost school” → “Pakistani authorities found chickens, not children, when they went to inspect a state-run primary school after a tip-off the establishment was being used to produce poultry. So-called ghost schools — where people pocket government funds for education but use the schools for their own purposes — are a common problem in Pakistan.”
- Interaction Design Interviews Online → “Bill Moggridge, designer of the first laptop computer, has posted online video interviews with a veritable who’s who of the Interaction Design world”
- Who’s to blame for Pastor Haggard’s fall from grace? His fat, lazy wife → “The shameless tweaker pastor from Ballard has it all figured out.”
- Many Americans Not ‘Absolutely Certain’ Of God → “Poll Shows 42 Percent Aren’t Convinced There Is A God”
- The New Yorker profiles Muhammad Yunus → “Yunus founded Grameen Bank that empowers the poor using Microcredit. Microcredit is the most effective way to help people in third world environments - harnessing their integrity and entrepreneurial spirit while bypassing the corrupt bureaucracies that gobble up official aid with none trickling down to those who most need it.”
- Party girls with a purpose: Building their own brands → On “Socialites who are using their glamour to spin off businesses.”
- Shantaram Video → “Gregory David Roberts, the author of Shantaram, provides an overview of his experience living in a slum in Bombay!”
- Welcome to Middle-Class Lockdown → “Take away America’s Wal-Mart junk and cheap electronics and what you have left is a mindless primitive tribe and a gaggle of bullshit artists pretending to lead them.”
- Delete Your Bad Web Rep → “The mistakes you make on the internet can live forever — unless you hire somebody to clean up after you. A new startup, ReputationDefender, will act on your behalf by contacting data hosting services and requesting the removal of any materials that threaten your good social standing. Any web citizen willing to pay ReputationDefender’s modest service fees can ask the company to seek and destroy embarrassing office party photos, blog posts detailing casual drug use or saucy comments on social networking profiles.”
- Disney Characters in Softcore Plushie Porn → Fucking creepy video of people dressed in costumes pretending to bang each other
- The Ladder of Four Rungs → One of the central texts behind the practice of contemplative prayer called Lectio Divina
- The Modern Mystical Movement → Article by shamanic practitioner Hank Wesselman which seeks to identifying traits, values and beliefs common to the post-New Age spiritual community
- Lizbeth Rymland → A multi-media artist who is also the sister-in-law of acclaimed artist Alex Grey
- Washington State Farmlink → Connects farmers to people who want to learn - offers internship opportunities, business help, etc. Really cool! I may talk to them in the spring…
- Satish Kumar - Dialogue → Excellent and brilliant speech by Satish Kumar about peace, youth and being daring in your life. HIGHLY recommended!
- The Process of Lectio Divina → A step-by-step breakdown of the contemplative prayer technique
- The Classical Monastic Practice of Lectio Divina → Nice introductory piece on how to do Lectio Divina
- 2theWall → A blog focused on surveillance trends
- Sakya Monastery of Tibetan Buddhism → Local Buddhist monastery here in Seattle
- Rock Bottom: Gay Men & Meth → A documentary from the San Francisco LGBT Film Festival
- Let’s talk about gay sex and meth → Interesting subject in light of the Ted Haggard controversy
- See Devi Slay the Fallen God! → Deepak Chopra’s son is in some kind of lead editorial role for a new series of updated Hindu mythological comic books out of Bangalore…
- NASA dawn of the Apollo program slides → Super sweet retro space exploration illustrations
- Sex Life of Robots → Super short animated film teaser. Looks pretty cool!
- We’re All Prisoners, Now: US Citizens to be Required ‘’Clearance'’ to Leave USA → “Forget no-fly lists. If Uncle Sam gets its way, beginning on Jan. 14, 2007, we’ll all be on no-fly lists, unless the government gives us permission to leave-or re-enter-the United States.”
- Essential tools for hunting ghosts → Somebody sent this link to me
- Occult of Personality → Bills itself as “a study of well-known occult researchers and their work”. This guy emailed me asking to do an interview, which I consented to…
- The Meaning of the Remembrance of God (Dhikru’llah) → I am very likely attending a Sufi religious service tomorrow and this is one of the practices which they partake in.
- Technocracy in America → Review of a book about Vannevar Bush who was one of the main people responsible for thelping o fuse together scientists, the military and industry after World War II. Was the rise of the “military-industrial complex” we were warned about actually Technocracy?
- Let the people rip, says influential think tank → UK think tank comes out strongly against copy restrictions on digital music
- Turn your iPod into a Ouija board → Pretty awesome idea
- Monoculture and disease → “Diversity within crops restricts disease”
- Shared Wisdom → Wesselman and his wife’s website. Looks like they also have a video on Google which I will watch later and say if it’s worth watching
- Wesselman on Coast to Coast → Seems he has been on CtoC a number of times as well.
- Hank Wesselman on Wikipedia → More on that dude
- Hank Wesselman Profile → He also teaches classes at the Omega Institute
- Hank Wesselman Interviews → An interesting fellow with a PhD who does work with traditional shamanism as well. Seems to maybe be in the Seattle area? (He’s the one teaching the Discover U class on Hawaiin shamanism)
- Hawaiian Shamanism: The Mystical Nature Of The Self → Interesting looking class at Discover U which I wish I had known about farther in advance, as it starts tomorrow.
- Discover U → Continuing education classes of all different kinds all across Seattle.
- Heirloom Gardening → Wikipedia on growing vegetables that have gone out of style
- Ex-inmate spotted trick-or-treating in prison suit → Dude is out on probation from prison, and smuggled out his jumpsuit as a Halloween costume… Now he is being charged with petty larceny and criminal possession of stolen property for taking the jumpsuit.
- Opacity: Urban Ruins → Awesome photos of abandoned mental hospitals and similar
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