Still trying to change the world, one corporation at a time. I had a link in the side-bar to the Aikido Activism Wiki for a few years (currently a dead lnk). Purely accidentally I made contact recently with its owner Reed Burkhart (via an e-mail address book glitch) and discovered he’s moved things along. He [...]
Entries from February 2007
Aikido & Reed Burkhart
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February 28, 2007 at 3:06am
by Ian
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Words of Gore
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February 26, 2007 at 11:58pm
by Ian
Heard “Al” at the Oscars last night, and have to agree he’s a natural. Particularly taken with his closing remarks “People all over the world – we need to solve the climate crisis. It’s not a political issue, it’s a moral issue,” he said. “We have everything we need to get started with the possible [...]
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Running The Numbers
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February 16, 2007 at 1:57am
by Ian
Captivating images constructed to depict “An American Self-Portrtait” in social statistics by Chris Jordan. Uses some fractical scaling to good effect. [via Robot Wisdom 2]
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First Commercial Quantum Computer
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February 13, 2007 at 11:49pm
by Ian
Demonstrated today in Silicon Valley by Canadian company D:Wave Systems. Thanks to Magnus Berg over on MoQ.Discuss for the link. I’ve been following Quantum Computing, not so much for the interest in processing power and super-computing applications, exciting though they may be, but because of the increasing importance of Quantum Information as a fundamental level [...]
Lawrence’s Humour
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February 13, 2007 at 2:48am
by Ian
T E Lawrence in Seven Pillars of Wisdom (p417, Cape 1940 edition) The Arab respected force a little: he respected craft more, and often had it in enviable degree: but most of all he respected blunt sincerity of utterance, nearly the sole weapon God had excluded from his armament. The Turk was all things by turn, [...]
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Lawrence’s Monism
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February 13, 2007 at 2:28am
by Ian
T E Lawrence in Seven Pillars of Wisdom (p477, Cape 1940 edition) The conception of antithetical minds and matter, which was basic in the Arab self-surrender, helped me not at all. I achieved surrender (so far as I did achieve it) by the very opposite road, through my notion that the mental and physical were [...]
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Surfing ? In Copenhagen ?
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February 11, 2007 at 3:25am
by Ian
Bring your own wave ? OK maybe not so how about the beach at Perth WA ? Nature’s foreworks. (Wow, like Wow - a real pic ? on the Nasa site ! Actually it’s a digitally stitched and processed panorama shot) And a more peaceful shot of Comet McNaught. Thanks to Rivets again. I could go on [...]
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Aircraft Piccies
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February 11, 2007 at 3:12am
by Ian
Sorry, couldn’t resist capturing these links after browsing a link from Rivets. This German site with zillions of air-show pics and links http://www.militaryaircraft.de/pictures/index.html Includes those C17 flare smoke / trailing vortex images. This bible (?) page with countless images of vapour clouds http://chamorrobible.org/gpw/gpw-20041216.htm Linked here before, but this page has dozens (hundreds ?) of further [...]
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RIP Ernst Mayr
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February 7, 2007 at 1:46am
by Ian
Died Thursday 3rd Feb 2007 aged 100. Obit in The Scientist. [via Nibbs]
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Where is Jorn again ?
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February 5, 2007 at 4:10am
by Ian
I see Robot Wisdom has gone offline … not for the first time has Jorn Barger, the grandaddy of blogging, disappeared from view. Aha, RW may have gone offline, but I see RW2 continues, and since this year appears to include the RW links on a monthly basis ?
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Eno meets Barfield
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February 5, 2007 at 3:20am
by Ian
Spookily, after re-making the David Lavery connections in the previous post, and David hosting the Owen Barfield web site, I was checking out EnoWeb and came across this Brian Eno talk (with Will Wright of gaming / sim-city fame). (Part of “The Long Now” project mentioned previously here.) In it Brian mentions the Aeolian Harp, [...]
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Book Anxiety
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February 4, 2007 at 9:19pm
by Ian
I’ve blogged before “Too much to read, too little time” noting references picked-up during the reading I do manage to achieve – a reading list growing faster than the pace of possible reading. Not uncommon apparently - here a 1989 paper from David Lavery – “How to Gut a Book“. Here quoting Thomas Wolfe’s, Eugene Gant The [...]
Perpendicular Storage Comes to Market
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February 4, 2007 at 8:25pm
by Ian
As Hitachi announces its first TeraByte Hard Drive (A Million MegaBytes !). First blogged the perependicular potential two years ago in spring 2005.
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Fox Soccer on Comcast
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February 4, 2007 at 8:17pm
by Ian
Here in Alabama we live in a subdivision where the cable provider is Comcast, and unlike their local competitor Knology, they have not (until recently) been able to provide the Fox Soccer Channel. We’ve been following the English Premiership progress of Reading FC mainly through their Premier TV MatchLive Console which carries the live commentary from [...]
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Constructivism …
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February 4, 2007 at 7:58pm
by Ian
… holds that … there is no capital-T Truth or capital-R Reality aside from, say, physical existence that can be objectively known. Instead, we interpret events based on our individual and/or collective experiences and the effects of those interpretations have real consequences in our lives that comprise little-t truth and little-r reality. Sounds familiar. An [...]
