The motto of Paul Saffo, Director for the Institute for the Future. [via Evelyn Rodrigues][via Johnnie Moore] This is actually the same argument I had with myself about active versus passive flexibility back in the 80′s and the paradox of “the unreasonable man”. No point being so open minded that you believe anything in an [...]
Entries from August 2004
Strong Opinions, Lightly Held
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August 31, 2004 at 4:51pm
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13th Century Mingers
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August 31, 2004 at 4:28pm
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A 13thC Italian poem by Cecco Angiolieri [via qB at Frizzy, with modern English translation]. Nothing new under the sun, I may have said once or twice before. Led me to this Italian philosophy site. Intrigued to find Nietzsche and Plato as their only 3-star contributors in a very long list of references to the [...]
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Quantum Genetics Information Model
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August 26, 2004 at 9:37am
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It’s a few months since I looked at what’s going on in this space, and was prompted today by a cross hit on “non-locality. The BCS-Cybernetics site has this astonishing paper which is actually 4 years old …[QUOTE][Levels of] chromosome quantum nonlocality as genetic information … The 1st level is that the organism as a [...]
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Repressed Memory Syndrome
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August 25, 2004 at 8:56am
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Pharyngula (Paul Myers) on Elizabeth Loftus. [via Dermot] Need to find a quiet space to read this. Alex, you’ll also like this Dermot post on Political Morality I think.
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Blueberry Brain
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August 24, 2004 at 6:16pm
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Stumbled across this little lot on a cross-search hit on “Maslow’s Holistic Training Template“, which sounded like a 1970′s rock-band for a moment. (Just remembered what it triggered – Roger Ruskin-Spear’s Kinetic Wardrobe, though I actually remember it as Neil Innes, supporting Curved-Air and/or Mott The Hoople, Middlesbrough Town Hall, 1972-ish. Perhaps Dumpy’s Rusty Nuts [...]
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Northrop and Heisenberg
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August 24, 2004 at 5:47pm
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Another one of those “the plot thickens” links. Read and blogged about both F.S.C. Northrop (The Meeting of East and West) and Werner Heisenberg (Physics and Philosophy), but didn’t notice the the US edition of the latter (1958 Great Minds series, published by Prometheus) had an introduction by the former. I read the UK Penguin [...]
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Richard Russo’s Address
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August 24, 2004 at 10:25am
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The Richard Russo piece blogged below, is an excellent read on so many levels, about what really matters in life. Very moving actually. [QUOTE] The vain hope of middle class parents that their children will go off to college and later be returned to them economically viable but otherwise unchanged … what many parents never [...]
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A collection of cross-hits
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August 23, 2004 at 4:40pm
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Richard Russo’s Commencement Address – makes you think. [via clock-watching] Eco hit, concerning the book “The Rule of Four”, also from clock-watching. It’s a historical literary mystery story, like Eco’s Rose, but with more of the style of Donna Tartt according to the reviews. The excerpt looks readable. (As an aside, the subject, the Hypnerotomachia [...]
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Del.icio.us Bookmarklets
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August 23, 2004 at 8:49am
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Think I saw these some months ago, but didn’t spot the potential. Saw this link via Matt Whyndham. Leads to del.icio.us. Not so concerned with the mind-mapping angle – just a matter of visually appealing presentation – but the fact that del.icio.us allows categorisation of linked pages. I wonder if I could use this to [...]
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Scientific Truth
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August 21, 2004 at 1:30pm
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A main thread of mine is that apparently scientifically justified rationale is often way off the mark when it comes to the truth of any human-scale issue. I blogged last year a debate involving Steve Jones and George Monbiot, on the non-scientific aspects of scientific claims. To have faith in rational scientific argument is of [...]
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Panders to Blogs
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August 21, 2004 at 1:20pm
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Inspired by “Eats, Shoots & Leaves”, by Lynn Truss, Jennifer Garret has posted “Eats, Blogs & Leaves“. I have to agree. Bad punctuation is only the half of it. Spelling, grammar and syntax are all victims of the rapid publishing habit that is blogging. I’m constantly embarassed to discover howlers in my own blog, often [...]
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CEO Blog
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August 17, 2004 at 12:37am
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CEO Blog – Glenn Reid at FiveAcross [via Stuart Henshall]. [Quote] The bathtub was invented in 1842. The telephone was invented in 1876. That means you could have sat in the bathtub for 34 years without the phone ringing. [Unquote] I like that. Slightly more practically, he says, though in Microsoft knocking mode, [Quote] … [...]
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That Recommendation to Remove Road Markings
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August 11, 2004 at 12:12am
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Mentioned indirect references to this many times, but I came across the original report thanks to a cross-search-hit.
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30th Anniversary ZMM Trips Completed
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August 10, 2004 at 3:57am
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I almost forgot. Mark Richardson completed his ZMM trip and posted his initial photographic record and comments here on Henry’s site. And so did Franz und Gregor.
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Talking of Hypocrisy
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August 10, 2004 at 1:17am
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As I was with Eco’s plot below, I did also mention earlier that I had obtained Nils Brunsson’s “The Organisation of Hypocrisy”. Read only a small part so far … Interestingly, Brunsson says most people interpreted his first edition as pointing out a hypocrisy that was in need of stamping out in order to improve [...]
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The Rose Completed
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August 10, 2004 at 12:29am
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I’ve blogged a couple of times already that I’ve been reading Umberto Eco’s “The Name of the Rose”. Well today on flight CO5 to Houston I completed it. I said before that the high mediaeval historical content made it difficult to sort fictional characters and events from real. Few of the important doubts (people or [...]
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Henry’s Gallery Inspires ZMM Readers
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August 8, 2004 at 6:09pm
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From a multitude of bloglines search cross-hits I picked-up this metafilter link. This is a small world, full of small worlds, each full of … etc. Amazing how each thinks it is the first to find something (anything). Takes us back to the nothing new under the sun theme, and particularly the conceit of believing [...]
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Emergent Management
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August 8, 2004 at 5:30pm
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I thought emergence was going to be last year’s word, but it looks like it’s going to arrive this year at last. It’s been a thread on MoQ Discuss recently and I find this post from Seb Paquet too. Recipes for success are always doomed, in management just as anywhere else in life. Success is [...]
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Some goodies from Jack Vinson.
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August 3, 2004 at 9:25am
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The CIA World Factbook [via McGee's Musings][via Jack Vinson] (The UK is a “money laundering center” – which is nice. Apparently Northern Ireland doesn’t count as an international territorial dispute – which is also nice. !!)The US declaration of Independence [via McGee's Musings][via Jack Vinson]The Value of Certainty, from Jack. Like it.Personal Knowledge Management, also [...]
