Hank's Blog
Friday, November 28, 2003
wood's lot blog
designboom web magazine
Tom Coates' weblog:
This site - plasticbag.org - is a weblog by Tom Coates, who works in London on social software, weblogs and personal publishing on the web.
Peter Lindberg's weblog:
My name is Peter Lindberg, and this is my weblog/blog (see also my Swedish weblog). I'm a computer programmer and father in my early thirties, living in Stockholm, Sweden
the MemeFirst blog:
Unless stated otherwise, MemeFirst members disagree vehemently with the opinions expressed by individual authors. The author alone is responsible for his own posts...
Thursday, November 27, 2003
Grupo Saveiro, samba pagode group, have this video up (1 hour 2 mins) of a concert they performed this year at Kennedy Center.
Wednesday, November 26, 2003
Doctors baffled as Indian man claims not to have eaten for 68 years
AHMEDABAD, India (AFP) - An Indian man who claims divine inspiration says he has survived 68 years without eating, drinking or relieving himself, baffling doctors who are unable to prove him an imposter...
another article about him: (his name is Prahllad Jani)
right-wingers: Right-Wing Talking Action Figures. Christians: Jesus Inspirational Sport Statues, for the more meditatively oriented: Squeezie Laptop Buddha
Soccer Jesus
Tuesday, November 25, 2003
The Big Picture - Macro perspectives on the Capital Markets, Economy, Geopolitics (with a dash of film)...
Monday, November 24, 2003
The secret of ASANAS
The practice of asanas is at least as much a mental practice as it is a physical practice. Let's take for example Bhujanghasana, the Cobra Pose. When a yogi performs this pose all he has to think is "pure love" and concentrate on his heart chakra. This is the secret key of Bhujanghasana, and if it is used properly it will induce resonance between the yogi's heart chakra (anahata chakra) and the infinite macrocosmic sphere of love (maha anahata chakra), transferring virtually unlimited quantities of the love-energy to his heart. - Sivasakti Yoga Blog
Producer Phil Spector charged with murder
Record producer Phil Spector, the 1960s recording-studio wizard who created pop music's Wall of Sound, was charged Thursday with murder in the shooting death of a woman at his home last February. ...
Record producer Phil Spector, the 1960s recording-studio wizard who created pop music's Wall of Sound, was charged Thursday with murder in the shooting death of a woman at his home last February. ...
Sunday, November 23, 2003
TEKKA: enjoying new media, software aesthetics; the art of technology. indispensable!
Stay All Day If You Want To - merrydeath's weblog ALL OF MY LIFE'S LONGSTANDING GOALS HAVE BEEN SUDDENLY REVEALED AS PALTRY AND MEANINGLESS
Around the same time I moved to Manhattan I started doodling on the back of business cards, just to give me something to do while sitting at the bar... the gapingvoid.com
coolstop's mission is to provide fresh pointers to the non-commercial, creative side of the web. celebrating the magic of personal expression, excellence in web design, and original content, the best of the cool daily pick recognizes a great site every day.
Jeffrey Zeldman's website, an eclectic mix with art, music, web design advice, and free graphics.
A List Apart Magazine explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on techniques and benefits of designing with web standards.
Happy Cog designs content-focused sites and creates publishing tools to maintain them...
Saturday, November 22, 2003
Friday, November 21, 2003
The Free Music Movement - "copyleft" philosophy and more...
Thursday, November 20, 2003
What motivates us
Times are changing and a new challenge faces us, children of the Vodoun culture. The song of the West is strong and seductive. We can no longer be satisfied to hum quietly amongst ourselves. We believe that we must sing out loud using the modern means of communications. All that is really secret must and will remain so, but everything that we traditionally allowed "en passant" strangers to witness must burst out on the world scene for no one's profit. No one in particular that is, we're not adverse to be funded for research, but there is no copyright to our common heritage. Furthermore, we intend to stay true to our culture: no proselytising. Vodoun is so much more than a religion. Vodoun is foremost régléman, structure and order. It is one explanation of the natural laws that every human being has obeyed for the last million years or so. Why not listen?
Times are changing and a new challenge faces us, children of the Vodoun culture. The song of the West is strong and seductive. We can no longer be satisfied to hum quietly amongst ourselves. We believe that we must sing out loud using the modern means of communications. All that is really secret must and will remain so, but everything that we traditionally allowed "en passant" strangers to witness must burst out on the world scene for no one's profit. No one in particular that is, we're not adverse to be funded for research, but there is no copyright to our common heritage. Furthermore, we intend to stay true to our culture: no proselytising. Vodoun is so much more than a religion. Vodoun is foremost régléman, structure and order. It is one explanation of the natural laws that every human being has obeyed for the last million years or so. Why not listen?
photograph by ALEX TROESCH for last week's Gede ceremony (Gede names a family of raucous spirits who personify the ancestral dead and sexual regeneration.)
John Perry Barlow's article on the Economy of Ideas - Reality is an edit. People are willing to pay for the authority of those editors whose point of view seems to fit best. And again, point of view is an asset which cannot be stolen or duplicated.
Loca Records believes that the fight over Free/Libre and Open Content and Media is a struggle over the freedom of expression and the freedom of speech, radically opening up the possibilities of media. To this end LOCA is attempting to release music under so-called copyleft, a license that enables music writers to develop music collaboratively and equitably and then release it into the public domain.
Dave Pollard's How to save the world - environmental philosophy, creative works, business papers and essays
How Not to Get Fired Because of Your Blog
by Blogger Support
Do you blog at work? Do you check your referrer logs and surf the blogosphere all day from your office? ...
by Blogger Support
Do you blog at work? Do you check your referrer logs and surf the blogosphere all day from your office? ...
the Tech Bloom in full flower
By ALEX STEFFEN
When the markets crashed and the money steamed from high-tech like coolant from a blown radiator, most of us made a logical assumption: The engine of technological innovation was shot and things would settle down and act normal.
If this is normal, I don't want to meet weird. In basements, garages and the empty warehouses that once held the Next Big Thing, tech-savvy folks are huddled over their laptops, working together online to give away the future. The result? We're seeing a surge of technological creativity that easily trumps anything we dreamed of with the dot-com PR guys crooning in our ears. ...
By ALEX STEFFEN
When the markets crashed and the money steamed from high-tech like coolant from a blown radiator, most of us made a logical assumption: The engine of technological innovation was shot and things would settle down and act normal.
If this is normal, I don't want to meet weird. In basements, garages and the empty warehouses that once held the Next Big Thing, tech-savvy folks are huddled over their laptops, working together online to give away the future. The result? We're seeing a surge of technological creativity that easily trumps anything we dreamed of with the dot-com PR guys crooning in our ears. ...
Wednesday, November 19, 2003
Smart Mobs emerge when communication and computing technologies amplify human talents for cooperation. The impacts of smart mob technology already appear to be both beneficial and destructive.
allAfrica.com aggregates, produces and distributes news from across Africa
Tuesday, November 18, 2003
For a long time anthropology was defined by the exoticism of its subject matter and by the distance, conceived as both cultural and geographic, that separated the researcher from the researched group. This situation has changed. In a few years we may assess the twentieth century as characterized by a long and complex movement, with theoretical and political implications, that replaced the ideal of the radical encounter with alterity with research at home. But "home" will, as always, incorporate many meanings, and anthropology will maintain, in its paradigmatic assumption, a socio-genetic aim toward an appreciation for, and an understanding of, difference. In some cases, difference will be the route to theoretical universalism via comparison; in others, it will surface as a denunciation of exoticism or a denial of its appeal. This review examines different moments and contexts in which an attempt at developing anthropology "at home" became an appropriate quest. - WHEN ANTHROPOLOGY IS AT HOME
Monday, November 17, 2003
haiti was the first colony to gain independence, exactly 200 years ago (january 1, 1804). toussaint louverture (1743-1803), a former slave, was a major figure in haiti's struggle for independence and the abolition of slavery. imprisoned by napoleon after proclaiming himself governor of haiti, he died in france shortly before his country was liberated.
two hundred years later, a young haitian (erol j., 33 years old), who became a vodou priest at only 17, struggles to give a different view of his country than the usual cliches (misery, zombies, witchcraft). pursuing his musical career in new york, he represents present-day haiti, simultaneously emancipated and enrooted.
- Afro Blue, Switzerland.
two hundred years later, a young haitian (erol j., 33 years old), who became a vodou priest at only 17, struggles to give a different view of his country than the usual cliches (misery, zombies, witchcraft). pursuing his musical career in new york, he represents present-day haiti, simultaneously emancipated and enrooted.
- Afro Blue, Switzerland.
Sunday, November 16, 2003
Saturday, November 15, 2003
Thursday, November 13, 2003
The Sonic Wire Sculptor by Amit Pitaru - this comes from the Processing site.
Processing is a context for exploring the emerging conceptual space enabled by electronic media. It is an environment for learning the fundamentals of computer programming within the context of the electronic arts and it is an electronic sketchbook for developing ideas.
Processing is a context for exploring the emerging conceptual space enabled by electronic media. It is an environment for learning the fundamentals of computer programming within the context of the electronic arts and it is an electronic sketchbook for developing ideas.
Memetics is the study of ideas and concepts viewed as "living" organisms, capable of reproduction and evolution in an "Ideosphere" (similar to the Biosphere) consisting of the collective of human minds. Memes reproduce by spreading to new hosts, who will spread them further (typical examples are jokes, catchphrases or politicial ideas).
At present memetics is somewhat controversial. Partly this is due to misunderstandings about what it means, leading to claims that it excludes human free will, creativity and progress, and that it is bad science. This will likely change in time, as the field matures.
At present memetics is somewhat controversial. Partly this is due to misunderstandings about what it means, leading to claims that it excludes human free will, creativity and progress, and that it is bad science. This will likely change in time, as the field matures.
Wednesday, November 12, 2003
Even when we are not in immediate danger, we suffer from an underlying sense of unease - the feeling of alienation and fear that "something is wrong." Searching for the source of the problem, we blame ourselves, convinced that we are flawed. We also blame others, damaging close relationships and ultimately giving rise to the intolerance and violence we see in the world. - from the New York Insight Meditation Center 2003-2004 catalog
Nalandabodhi - The Gateway to the Buddhist Science of Mind. Nalanda translates as "the place that confers the lotus (of spiritual knowledge)," and was the name of the great Buddhist university that flourished for some 1800 years in ancient India. Bodhi translates as "enlightenment."
By using a Creative Commons license, you're taking part in a growing movement of creative thinking about copyright and art on the Net. What would the world be like if the 12 bar blues was protected under a copyright? Adopting a Creative Commons license enables you to support a culture, where new ideas are based off of old ones, and culture is accessible to all. In a debate increasingly dominated by the extremes, and in which large media interests often set the rules for the rest of us, a good dose of moderation and a return to artist control is sorely needed.
Monday, November 10, 2003
"We can't all be better than each other" - Leon
The Believer is a monthly magazine where length is no object. There are book reviews which are not necessarily timely, and which are very often very long. There are interviews which are also very long.
The Thresher, Flailing at Current Events
Sunday, November 09, 2003
If Hendrix was a word processor - an mp3 of the Star Spangled Banner as played by Leon on his Samchillian Tip Tip Tip Cheeepeeeee (patent #5565641)
Saturday, November 08, 2003
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Egyptian authorities have banned the Jim Carrey film "Bruce Almighty,'' saying the comedy infringes on God's sacredness.
Madkour Thabit, who heads the state-run censorship body responsible for audio and visual productions, criticized the movie Friday for featuring "actors playing the role of God.''
"The name of the movie - 'Bruce Almighty' - indicates that there is someone who can do anything and everything,'' Thabit said in a statement faxed to The Associated Press. "Such traits belong only to God.''
In the film, Carrey plays a TV reporter who gets a shot at being God for a week.
In June, Egyptian censors banned "The Matrix Reloaded'' on religious grounds, saying it challenged the topics of existence and creation.
Madkour Thabit, who heads the state-run censorship body responsible for audio and visual productions, criticized the movie Friday for featuring "actors playing the role of God.''
"The name of the movie - 'Bruce Almighty' - indicates that there is someone who can do anything and everything,'' Thabit said in a statement faxed to The Associated Press. "Such traits belong only to God.''
In the film, Carrey plays a TV reporter who gets a shot at being God for a week.
In June, Egyptian censors banned "The Matrix Reloaded'' on religious grounds, saying it challenged the topics of existence and creation.
Thursday, November 06, 2003
... In the United States, the hardening of attitudes, the tightening of the grip of demeaning generalization and triumphalist cliche, the dominance of crude power allied with simplistic contempt for dissenters and "others" has found a fitting correlative in the looting, pillaging, and destruction of Iraq's libraries and museums. What our leaders and their intellectual lackeys seem incapable of understanding is that history cannot be swept clean like a blackboard, clean so that "we" might inscribe our own future there and impose our own forms of life for these lesser people to follow. It is quite common to hear high officials in Washington and elsewhere speak of changing the map of the Middle East, as if ancient societies and myriad peoples can be shaken up like so many peanuts in a jar... - Edward W. Said, Orientalism (preface to the 25th Anniversary Edition)
Oxum-mare = Damballah Wedo. Presiding over the completion of projects. 
The Orixas project is in its final production stage - a few more recording sessions and we're into mixing, at Grampa Studios, starting Nov. 24.
The Orixas project is in its final production stage - a few more recording sessions and we're into mixing, at Grampa Studios, starting Nov. 24.
Human Nature (2002) - When Lila Jute (Patricia Arquette), a nature writer with excessive body hair, meets Nathan Bronfman (Tim Robbins), an obsessive/compulsive scientist attempting to teach mice table manners, the two begin an unlikely romance.
Monday, November 03, 2003
yesterday: a sunday day trip to the dia:beacon museum upstate. it was so good to get out of the city and do a reset on my brain. it's all about space up there (in the museum). thank you nobu-chan!
Saturday, November 01, 2003
goodbye Samba and Rumba. mio's fishies are now living in the park. i hope they'll find their way out there. it seemed like a good environment for them. much more space than the cramped little tank they were living in.
yesterday i spent all day looking at Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy: The Agony of Reform (2002). it's the second disc of the 3-dvd set, the third i've already viewed, since i'm receiving them in backwards order from Netflix! this series is great (and their website received a design award from I.D.) .. this disc covered Chile, Bolivia, Poland, the collapse of the USSR...
and my blog has been 'discovered' by a very interesting economist, Edward, who lives in Barcelona and contributes to several blogs, including this one: A Fistful of Euros.
and my blog has been 'discovered' by a very interesting economist, Edward, who lives in Barcelona and contributes to several blogs, including this one: A Fistful of Euros.
