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[read] - Oblivio - Mirror

Turtles all the way down

Following Robert Coover’s “Suit”

An Actor Prepares by Constantin Stanislavski (Phil Gyford: Notes)

Put off procrastination, a link fest

Before electricity, night determined how we lived, loved and slept and Slumber's Unexplored Landscape

[read] - Crossed, Tangled, Braided (Ftrain.com)

Wired News: In Asia, the Eyes Have It

The Pre-Game Show, The Game is Afoot, and Endgame, by Matthew Baldwin. "Thirty-two hours in a van, scavenging for clues and solving puzzles - that's "the Game"".

The Word on the Street - "The cumulative genius of Overheard in New York." (via)

BBC NEWS | Norway's formula for a happy life and Norway's unique brand of pacifism.

(pictured is an ambigram. galleries here)

[read] - Wired News: Inside Applied Minds

[read] - steve jobs' commencement speech (see also)

[monkeys] - interview with Jane Goodall

[read] - Hell is other people

[words] - Circling Chicago (see also la petite mort)

[read] - A genius explains (via)

[proclaim] - I will suck the smell of grilled moron greedily down into my lungs. nicely supplemented by the Edge Annual Question, "What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it?" (snippets and comments at kottke.org)

[read] - Military Service of US Leaders

[slack] - Delegates amble to laziness conference

[read] - Cold Turkey by Kurt Vonnegut

[read] - The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

[read] - Milton Glaser: 10 Things I Have Learned

[bees] - make yourself some toast and read this.

[social engineering] - Project Names and Borges Numbers

[ode] - to the geek strumpet. so, very, yes.

[monkeys] - The Moral Character of the Monkey

[absorb] - The people behind TED(invite-only genius conference) have put together a book called Understanding USA(flash teaser site), filled with yummy scrummy infographics demographics and chart-candy. you should download the sucker(45mb pdf file, zipped), and peruse at leisure (or buy it, preferably ordered locally). you can also read an article about the creation of the project at fastcompany - Information as if Understanding Mattered.

[reality] - plasticbag.org | On the existence of God... "I do not consider myself 'agnostic' about Mind-Control Cheese."

[read] - interview with Brian Eno

[read] - Ralph Waldo Emerson

[reality] - The Brights Net "A Bright -- a person with a naturalistic worldview. A Bright's worldview is free of supernatural and mystical elements. Brights base their ethics and actions on a naturalistic worldview, one free of any deities, fairies, angels, ghosts, demons, sprites, etc."
I'm not sure about their choice of word to use as a label, but its a fine idea.
"By adopting and using the new noun term, we collectively surmount a diverse "philosophical lexicon" which blurs and disguises what is actually a critical cultural commonality... [of] atheists, agnostics, humanists, freethinkers, rationalists, skeptics, secular humanists, naturalists, existentialists, materialists, igtheists, objectivists, [etc]".
also an essay by richard dawkins

[read] - great interview with Darby Conley, creator of Get Fuzzy

[read] - Letter To Clark Ashton Smith from H P Lovecraft (652. Oct. 3, 1933) (via schism matrix)

[read] - From the EmergingTech conference - megnut's presentation notes/slides. and some notes on Howard Rheingold's keynote. and kottke is worth absorbing in entirety - i'm loving this attendance by proxy. Conferences have high meme dispersal yields; and the voyeuristic vicariousness doesn't hurt.

[read] - marginwalker.org . watch a community develop

[read] - CogWorks : Idea: Playful Applications - SimCity meets Photoshop

[read\scenarios] - Global Trends 2015: A Dialogue About the Future With Nongovernment Experts.

[read] - Slices of the ongoing conversation on social software

[read] - People With An Interest In Social Software

[read] - Joel on Software - Finding an Office in New York City. oh what a marvellously conniving species we are.

[read] - AlterNet: Kurt Vonnegut Vs. the !*!@

[read] - unsure whether to buy the book? (you should). then read the forum: Engaged: Conference: inkwell.vue: Howard Rheingold

[blogs] - Recommended Reading [dive into mark], generator

[read] - Will Wright at PC Forum 2003. cory's notes.

[read] - SurLaLune Fairy Tales

[relax] - A Loafer's Manifesto and An Idler's Glossary

[read] - Educational Paradigm - teaching models: transfer theory, shaping theory, growing theory, travelling theory

[read] - B�kB�kB�k

[hums] - "It only takes one child to raze a village"

[important idea virus] - wandering around the notebooks , i came across the original description of memes.
"Examples of memes are tunes, ideas, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches. Just as genes propagate themselves in the gene pool by leaping from body to body via sperm or eggs, so memes propagate themselves in the meme pool by leaping from brain to brain via a process which, in the broad sense, can be called imitation. If a scientist hears, or reads about, a good idea, he passes it on to his colleagues and students. He mentions it in his articles and his lectures. If the idea catches on, it can be said to propagate itself, spreading from brain to brain."

[travel] - The mystical reverse penhold backhand.

[bzzz] - excavation

oh, fuck.
and also, fuck verisign.

Ftrain. "He is keeping me calm, giving me this sense that men, if they are serious about life, grow into something useful, thoughtful, humble."

Gibson on japan. "... and truly, there is something in the quality of a good translation that can never be captured in the original.". heehee.

[brain candy] - the marvellous things you find whilst searching for quotes online. "all human brains!"

Sousveillance as an alternative balance.

disinformation | ken kesey: comes spake the cuckoo and Salon.com People | Appreciation: Ken Kesey

Salon.com People | Tom Stoppard

sobering. Ftrain: Sticker

Necoro at KurzweilAI.net

Buddhist Meditation and Personal Construct Psychology

Textism � An Annotated Manifesto for Growth. heehee!!

Open Brackets. Relax, it's later than you think.

Interviews at The Well. Start with Terry Pratchett, and Bruce Sterling, then wander.

Interview with Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett.

Seven Vices of Highly Creative People
"I slam my fist on the table. "We need a book about the 7 Vices of Highly Creative People before the whole country ends up in a straitjacket!" Bobby agrees enthusiastically, grabs a stack of napkins and begins writing. All the years we've spent studying history and literature are finally paying off. It isn't easy. But after six hours and five pitchers we finish the job."

The kingdom of smell

what the hell. i'll try some more.
vote: lottery [via camworld]

Driver Down: "Like eating soup with pantyhose over your head.", which is both a quote from, and a fairly accurate description of Mark Drivers latest rant.
i've got to be cynical sometimes....

talking of meat....