January 2012
37 posts
“I aspire to the manifestation of living on earth that nurtures, protects and...”
– Found this in my drafts section. It is my mantra for 2012.
Sutras | Integral Life (downloadable audio DJ mix)
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The Rise of State Schools - a summary by Will... →
U.S. schools under the jurisdiction of state and federal governments are now scripted processes that view knowledge as static capital, students as passive and empty vessels, and teachers as compliant conduits for state-approved content. The accountability paradigm is antithetical to human agency and autonomy and thus to democracy, but it serves the needs of the status quo and the ruling...
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“This goes to the very soul of the Internet culture and future, he says, because...”
– Mark Tatge at The Christian Science Monitor. Wikipedia blackout: Why even supporters question anti-SOPA move (via protoslacker)
“We need to start treating discovery, connection and sharing as creative acts.”
– an idea from Maria Popova via Matt Thompson in 5 provocative ideas sparked by women in media | Poynter.
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qaartsiluni
petitchou:
Inuit. Translations:
1) sitting together in the darkness, waiting for something to burst
2) expectant stillness
3) the intense quiet of the polar night
4) the time when something is about to explode in the dark
“All the life-potentialities that we never managed to bring to adult realization,...”
– Joseph Campbell, from The Hero With a Thousand Faces
via tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us
THEVULGAR: SOME FEEL RAIN / Joanna Klink →
thevulgar:
Some feel rain. Some feel the beetle startle in its ghost-part when the bark slips. Some feel musk. Asleep against each other in the whiskey dark, scarcely there. When it falls apart, some feel the moondark air drop its motes to the patch-thick slopes of snow. Tiny blinkings of ice from the…
“Three or four times only in my youth did I glimpse the Joyous Isles, before they...”
– Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell (via linusbey) (via petitchou)
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SOPA negra, or the black soup →
Great story.
via Poemas del rio Wang
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Final Transmission
When he disappeared everyone though it was weird … you know in an internet sort of way. After all, he was the author of Annabel Scheme and for a time, just about everyone was a part of The Committee to Find and Rescue Annabel Scheme. Now, of course, all those who were truly devastated by the disappearance are long gone — except me.
I’m still here by virtue of every illegal life...
“What’s the most entertaining thing you can build?”
– YCRFS 9: Kill Hollywood
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Marco Arment on SOPA
Here is the truth of it.
Every few years, the MPAA’s lobbying power, rhetoric, and immense campaign contributions succeed in purchasing a bill in Congress to advance their agenda in a way that’s hostile to the technology industry and consumers. …
The MPAA studios hate us. They hate us with region locks and unskippable screens and encryption and criminalization of fair use. They see us as...
“Perhaps no one was more eloquent about the true purpose of reading than French...”
– Socrates’ nightmare - The New York Times (via wildcat2030)
“Whenever people are certain they understand our peculiar situation here on this...”
– Robert Anton Wilson
Via RAW quote: in other words, if you think you know what the hell is going on, you’re probably full of shit.
STUDIO 630: Bruce Mau at Havard, and he's on fire! →
studio630:
Bruce Mau, author of Massive Change and several other books, has always been a strong advocate on the potentials in design, particularly when design is applied outside of it’s traditional role. Bruce Mau has recently visited Harvard and wrote this piece about what fires him up.
“ Recently, I…
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“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day I can hear...”
– Arundhati Roy (via nathanielstuart)
“That’s what’s really killing people: the unrealized potential of the human...”
– Joe Rogan (via nathanielstuart)
Harvard Declares Dairy NOT Part of a Healthy Diet... →
Kudos to Harvard for promoting greater consumption of vegetables and fruits, as well as healthier protein options such as fish, beans or nuts. And kudos to Harvard for ignoring the lobbyists and showing the USDA what healthy eating is all about.
“Tell me what it is you plan to do with your one wild and precious life.”
– Mary Oliver (via nathanielstuart)
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“Recent research supports the idea that consciousness is a conversation rather...”
– Signal for Consciousness in Brain Marked by Neural Dialogue: Scientific American (via myserendipities)
“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope...”
– Neil Gaiman (via boxofoctaves)
December 2011
44 posts
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Our middle school is an art school? robertogreco... →
A transforming paradigm here:
… we regularly use the term colleagues to describe what others would probably refer to as students and teachers.
Play My Code | Play, Build and Share games online! →
Teaching kids to code.
“It’s everywhere, it’s everywhere, this
sign of our times. Wherever I go, I...”
– Late Dinner, James Sallis (via bbook)
“Congress is on the verge of wrecking the greatest engine of innovation and...”
– SOPA: Washington Vs. The Web (via azspot)
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“The New Yorker’s James Surowiecki has a good column on the American Airlines...”
– Audit Notes: Walmart Rewrite, AMR’s Strategic Default, Debtors’ Prison : CJR
“With this defense authorization act, Congress will, for the first time in 60...”
– Al Franken (via azspot)
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