Phibiophillia
Posted by ungraspiness Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:09:00 GMT
What is the original promise of the World Wide Web ?
Posted by ungraspiness Tue, 18 Dec 2007 07:10:00 GMT
(watch the complete interview)
’ Restoring the Promise of the World Wide Web “Commercial aspects of the web have diverted its potential. Firmage wants to untangle the web and inspire young minds,” concludes Doug Fabrizio about his interview with Joe for KUED’s Utah Now. ‘
A very optimistic(and a seemingly very much needed) attempt to bring the internet back in line with it’s original purpose and to lessen the outright commercialization of this important and quite recent breakthrough for us all. However I’m not quite certain how that implementation might pan out for such a project.
What if the web were more like PBS in some ways ? (please come up with something more than suggesting that wikipedia fills this role already).
check out ManyOne Networks / Digital Universe
and more about the guy behind this, Joe Firmage
Readers may recall that there was some controversy around his personal beliefs that he made public back in 1998 shortly after getting very rich from a successful Silicon Valley startup called USWeb. This led to media types calling him the ‘Fox Mulder’ of Silicon Valley.
All those giga-monkeys can't be wrong (or can they ?)
Posted by ungraspiness Tue, 06 Nov 2007 22:48:00 GMT
On Oct. 9, 1903, the New York Times wrote: “The flying machine which will really fly might be evolved by the combined and continuous efforts of mathematicians and mechanicians in from one million to ten million years.”
On the same day, on Kill Devil Hill, N.C., in his diary, a bicycle mechanic named Orville Wright wrote:
“We unpacked rest of goods for new machine.”
Travis Louie – Unusual Circumstances / minty
Bottle that can filter viruses out of water
Posted by ungraspiness Thu, 13 Sep 2007 06:51:00 GMT
According to this telegraph article : “an Ipswich-based businessman invented a £190 bottle that makes foul-smelling water drinkable in seconds.”
That’s about US$380 over here. Each bottle can filter 4000 or 6000 liters without changing the filter. Also the bottle can make fecal matter safe to drink because it filters anything longer than 15 nanometres. This means that bacteria which are smallest at 200 nanometres(filterable by conventional water filters) and even viruses which are usually smallest at 25 nanometers can be filtered.
If it matches the claims then it’s probably worth even more than that price.
Apparently this is similar technology to that used in high-quality Stillsuit production by the Fremen of Arrakis. Specifically how feces and urine are filtered in the thigh pads of the suits.
Los Feliz Fire (5/8/2007)
Posted by ungraspiness Wed, 09 May 2007 17:08:00 GMT
Yesterday a fire started in griffith park consumed 200 acres and by this morning is up to 600 acres. The video clip below is shot from Hollywood Blvd and Vermont Ave in Los Feliz. I lived on Los Feliz Blvd and Hillhurst a few years ago which is a few miles closer to the SW edge of the blaze.
Ace Hotel, Portland Ore.
Posted by ungraspiness Fri, 30 Mar 2007 18:12:00 GMT
“Part of the Ace philosophy is to create an egalitarian atmosphere by bringing together creative types with tight budgets and more affluent travelers willing to trade down, as it were, in exchange for cool. (The hotel’s name is inspired by the card: the highest or lowest in the deck.)”
Pluto demoted ?
Posted by ungraspiness Thu, 24 Aug 2006 21:17:00 GMT
From this article:
“PRAGUE, Czech Republic — Leading astronomers declared Thursday that Pluto is no longer a planet under historic new guidelines that downsize the solar system from nine planets to eight.”
...and all over the news.
Does this mean that Gnosis and/or Daath has been demoted too ?
From an astrology perspective: ’ Pluto is about Death and Rebirth. While a Saturn transit might impact one’s life, Saturn can be resisted (with a commensurate amount of pain), but Pluto is about inevitability. Pluto takes no prisoners. It changes things. Typically for the best, but often not recognized as such. Pluto is in essence about Hades—but where this place of the dead in Greek myth is not hell, but is the place “from which all good things come.” ‘
Interesting times !
Arms into Art
Posted by ungraspiness Sun, 06 Aug 2006 19:12:00 GMT
During the past few years, the artists’ collective Nucleo de Arte got involved in an extraordinary project. In workshops, members made works of art out of AK 47 machine guns, landmines and hand weapons.
‘Chair of the African King’
Complaints of the eminent
Posted by ungraspiness Tue, 01 Aug 2006 04:32:00 GMT
From Paul Graham’s essay titled ‘The Power of the Marginal’:
The eminent, on the other hand, are weighed down by their eminence. Eminence is like a suit: it impresses the wrong people, and it constrains the wearer.
AND
...You’re on the right track when people complain that you’re unqualified, or that you’ve done something inappropriate. If people are complaining, that means you’re doing something rather than sitting around, which is the first step. And if they’re driven to such empty forms of complaint, that means you’ve probably done something good.
An excellent essay that points out some great things about well…
...people that hang out in the margins.
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