1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen (X) 2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien () 3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte (/) 4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling () 5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee (X) 6 The Bible – (/) 7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte (/) 8 [...]
Entries from February 2009
Too Much Reading ?
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February 27, 2009 at 7:03am
by Psybertron
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Tha Appearance of Sanity
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February 27, 2009 at 2:56am
by Psybertron
Slavoj Zizek writing in 2001 in The Cabinet. The “Western Buddhist” meditative stance is arguably the most efficient way for us to fully participate in capitalist dynamics while retaining the appearance of mental sanity. If Max Weber were alive today, he would definitely write a second, supplementary, volume to his Protestant Ethic, entitled The Taoist [...]
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ZMM Airing
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February 27, 2009 at 1:52am
by Psybertron
I see that Ant’s second Pirsig documentary installment “On the Road With Robert Pirsig” gets an airing tonight at a reading of ZMM in the Twin Cities, where a couple of local bloggers also picked this up. A little biographical detail is that the event at the Sean Muda Studio is in the same “Roberts [...]
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Inverse Data Mining
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February 26, 2009 at 7:27am
by Psybertron
Banished to the salt mines.
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A Fool’s Wisdom
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February 26, 2009 at 1:49am
by Psybertron
Interesting little blog from Lloyd Budd … associated with AutoMattic / WordPress. Initially drawn by the Learning by Doing Something Else post, but then couldn’t resist the Starting New Year’s Resolution in February post and the reference to “reading in bars”. Story of my life. While the king was looking down, The jester stole his thorny [...]
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Open Source Gets Serious ?
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February 26, 2009 at 1:30am
by Psybertron
Interesting debate to be had about where the open source game will fit the wider business of commerce and governance. [Talking of which ... is it possible to be inexpensive without being cheap ... do you in fact get what you pay for ?]
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The Divine Gibbon
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February 24, 2009 at 1:07pm
by Psybertron
Why am I reading “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” (Edward Gibbon 1776, D  M Low 1960 abridgement, 910 page , 1974 edition by Chatto & Windus) ? I picked it up from my father’s book-case a couple of years ago because the Neil Hannon / Divine Comedy lyric “Gibbon’s divine decline and fall” [...]
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Big Footprint ?
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February 15, 2009 at 1:01pm
by Psybertron
visited 33 states (66%) Create your own visited map of The United States or try another Douwe Osinga project visited 36 states (16%) Create your own visited map of The World or try another Douwe Osinga project
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ECT – A Fine Meme
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February 15, 2009 at 8:58am
by Psybertron
A main thread of my work is that what passes for sense, knowledge and rationality in communication and decision-making with any “what should we do” qualitative, ethical or moral element, is essentially memetic. A western meme that dominates western society and western dominated worlds; a meme that focusses on quantifiable values and discrete objects  than [...]
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Burrell & Morgan and Pirsig
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February 15, 2009 at 5:30am
by Psybertron
Gibson Burrell & Gareth Morgan’s  ”Sociological Paradigms and Organizational Analysis” was one of the textbooks  during my masters degree back in 1988 / 91. It was one that I actually read and used significant parts of in my thesis but, as with Peters & Waterman’s “In Search of Excellence”, I didn’t pick-up the references to [...]
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On Walden Pond
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February 14, 2009 at 3:23am
by Psybertron
Finished Thoreau’s Walden, reading it mainly to and from work on the bus. (I mentioned earlier the coincidence that it was the subject of BBC’s “In Our Time” recently too, just as I had unpacked the book from our recent relocation onto the bed-side cabinet – so a comprehensive re-read was in order.) A little [...]
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108 is only a number
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February 12, 2009 at 3:22am
by Psybertron
Chasing numbers devalues them. Let’s hope these numbers don’t go the same way, ie let’s focus on value, not numbers. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7862831.stm http://www.500kmh.com/projectinfo.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7860251.stm
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RIP Marysville
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February 8, 2009 at 3:08pm
by Psybertron
Seeing this year’s forest fires in Australia, north of Melbourne I recognized the name of one of the small towns wiped out by the fire. Marysville, where I stopped to chat with a local biker. Remember remarking on the forests too.
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Great Books Paradox
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February 8, 2009 at 1:47pm
by Psybertron
Reading Thoreau’s “Walden” pretty thoroughly this time around, should be capturing more notes that I am noting mentally, and this is one. In his chapter entitled “Reading” Thoreau extols the virtues of reading the wisdom of the real classics, widely and in the original (original dead languages) where possible, but balances this with the warning [...]
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Everybody Wants To Get Ahead ?
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February 8, 2009 at 1:11pm
by Psybertron
Is a line from the wonderfully ironic “The Devil Wears Prada” a film I saw for about the 3rd or 4th time yesterday … just killing time … one of those films that always seems to be showing on some TV channel. I don’t know anything about the original writing behind it, and there is [...]
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A Rare Treat
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February 7, 2009 at 1:03pm
by Psybertron
Saw Rodney Crowell at the JD in Oslo last night. It was packed-out. Didn’t know anything about him beforehand, but I’d noticed he was supported and backed by Will Kimbrough and Jenny Scheinman. I saw Will just the once before at Norm’s (Cumberland) River Road House just outside Nashville, playing with Tommy Womack. Folks in [...]
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Where’s The Humanity ?
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February 1, 2009 at 2:17pm
by Psybertron
Sign of the economic times that this is is happening I guess, and an industry in which I have a long personal involvement, not just in the UK, but I thought this comment was an interesting statement of the root problem in globalization. Where is the humanity in ruining someone’s local environment by building a [...]
