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George is in the jungle
knockin’ on the door
come to get your children
wants to have a war
Long Dark Night Lyrics
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Tagged 60s, awareness expansion, beat, cognitive bias, Ecodelics, fun, media ecology, Media Lies, mind manifesting, Psyche de Luxe
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Keynote Clay Shirky gave on Social Software at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology conference in Santa Clara on April 24, 2003
Good morning, everybody. I want to talk this morning about social software …there’s a surprise. I want to talk about a pattern I’ve seen over and over again in social software that supports large and [...]
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Unfortunately I can’t link directly to the audio. You can subscribe to Bookworm in iTunes (and I highly recommend it). You can listen from this KCRW link to the Gibson interview page.
Spook Country (Putnam)
What’s happened to William Gibson? Along with the most sophisticated future-predictions, speculations about the sociology of cities, and adventures in virtual [...]
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Edward Hasbrouck
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The deadline for public comments on the USA Transportation Security
Administration’s proposed rules to make would-be travellers obtain
individualized prior permission for all journeys by air to, from,
overflying, or even *within* the USA is this Monday, 22 October 2007.
If you have a chance before 5 p.m. Washington time on Monday, I urge
you to go [...]
Viral political satire in a musical theater setting!
Or here’s the link: http://www.youtube.com/v/KmsOIjzQ1V8
Saturday, October 20, 2007
from http://machinist.salon.com/
How Comcast blocks your Internet traffic
The broadband company’s audacious scheme to interrupt your data proves why network neutrality rules are crucial.
By Farhad Manjoo
Oct. 19, 2007 |
Bless the Associated Press for unearthing, through careful and diligent investigation, Comcast’s shameful, hidden Internet traffic-management scheme.
Comcast, the AP determined, actively manages data on its [...]
I’ve been hearing a lot about Ron Paul and have friends working on his campaign. I like a lot of what I’m hearing, especially about getting the Federal Govt. out of State’s Rights issues, but wonder how he might implement his ideas. Here’s a link to a very informative Ron Paul NPR interview (transcript [...]
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Tagged China, CIA, CIA Not!, Government Lies, health, inflation, politics, ron paul, state's rights, u.s. out of Iraq, war is terrorism, Why They Hate US
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Fun Wired interview with Ridley Scott about the soon to be re-released Blade Runner.
And here is a Blade Runner fan site with up to the minute late breaking news.
We have long railed against the absurdity of the CPI data. The ridiculous adjustments, the lack of correlation between CPI prices and reality… More
A “Master Class” By Danny Kahneman
Danny Kahneman along with Amos Tversky won the 2002 Nobel Prize in economics for their discovery of behavioral economics. I learned about them through reading Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s “Fooled By Randomness” and then Daniel Gilbert’s “Stumbling on Happiness” I’ve become very interested in cognitive biases- as I [...]
Bummer!
Netherlands imposes total ban on ‘magic’ mushrooms
Saturday, October 13, 2007
from Rose Rose on realitysandwich
Google is the first psychedelically informed superpower to shape the noosphere and NASDAQ. I don’t mean that Googlers (necessarily) are all seasoned psychonauts, or (necessarily) take 4:20 breaks on-campus, or are well represented (necessarily) at Burning Man. Nor am I saying that psychedelics “caused” Google, any more than a Stanford [...]
Saturday, October 13, 2007
this ties in with the earlier post on Peak Phosphorus
from Juergen Schmidhuber’s site
Since age 15 or so Prof. Jürgen Schmidhuber’s main scientific ambition has been to build an optimal scientist, then retire. In 2028 they will force him to retire anyway. By then he shall be able to buy hardware providing [...]
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Tagged Ammonia, artificial fertilizer, awareness expansion, Ecodelics, future, Gaia, Haber-Bosch, math, media ecology, Peak Energy, Peak Food, Peak Minerals, peak oil, phosphorus
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