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After a long day re-arranging furniture and scrubbing walls / ceilings, the mad-man creates a bit of incriminating evidence.

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Tue, 10 Aug 2010 03:25:02 GMT

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The wind came up so sharp and so fast I raced out to get Cat, and good thing: terrific downpour, sheets of hail, and pumpers are still rolling out to deal with lightning strikes.
This here? Minutes after blinding sheets of hail; as quick as it came, it was gone. (This is looking South; North is just dark, nothing to see.) But it was still raining and there was still thunder/lighting.

""Democracy is the Rule of the Unwise over the Wise" Strauss again: "It would..."

Sat, 03 Jul 2010 16:57:57 GMT

""Democracy is the Rule of the Unwise over the Wise"

Strauss again: "It would be absurd to hamper the free flow of wisdom by any regulations; hence the rule of the wise must be absolute rule. It would be equally absurd to hamper the free flow of wisdom by consideration of the unwise wishes of the unwise; hence the wise rulers ought not to be responsible to the unwise subjects." Strauss interprets Plato to mean that ". . . true democracy is an act against nature and must be prevented at all costs.""

–Swans Commentary: Leo Strauss

""I don't have a problem with the existence of the right, but the right has a ..."

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 19:39:13 GMT

"I don't have a problem with the existence of the right, but the right has a problem with my existence."

-- Steve Earle, quoted in Editor and Publisher

–IraqTimeLine - Rationale: Why This Site?: This Far and No Further

"As is the inner, so is the outer; as is the great, so is the small; as it is ..."

Sun, 27 Jun 2010 17:22:46 GMT

"As is the inner, so is the outer; as is the great, so is the small; as it is above, so it is below; there is but One Life and Law; and He, that is worth it, is One. Nothing is inner, nothing is outer; nothing is great, nothing is small; nothing is high, nothing is low; in the Divine Economy."

–DK Matai: Butterfly Effect, Oil Gusher & Edge of Chaos: World Wide Summit?

St Joseph Cathedral

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 02:12:49 GMT

St Joseph Cathedral
Today we gathered here to say farewell to a friend, Loren Chabot, but three decades ago this place was at the core of my daily life: at the time the church was very active in civil society on social justice issues and in the basement was the Edmonton Cross Cultural Learner Center.

Listening to stories about familiy

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 01:01:08 GMT

Listening to stories about familiy
I'm particularly fond of the Full Windsor knot I managed to throw into that tie!

College St Jean represents

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 20:11:49 GMT

College St Jean represents
Gathered after bidding farewell to Loren Chabot, 23JUNE2010

*brain cramp*, Michael Amerongen, René Belland, and Mike Cooper

Mill Creek Ravine

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:08:11 GMT

Mill Creek Ravine
One block from home ... first picture taken on my shiny new Nokia phone.

The ravine 1/2 block from where I lived in the late 60s ... memories of my Honda S-90!

"Descartes, writing to Picot, who translated the Principia Philosophiae into F..."

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:10:37 GMT

"Descartes, writing to Picot, who translated the Principia Philosophiae into French, observed: "Thus the whole of philosophy is like a tree: the roots are metaphysics, the trunk is physics, and the branches that issue from the trunk are all the other sciences . . .""

–Existence and Being by Martin Heidegger (1949)

""The greatest enemy of truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrive..."

Sun, 20 Jun 2010 04:23:07 GMT

"The greatest enemy of truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived, and dishonest - but the myth - persistent, pervasive, and unrealistic."

- John F. Kennedy

"None of us is as smart as all of us."

- Japanese proverb

–TOOL: The Open Opinion Layer

Music Corner

Sun, 20 Jun 2010 01:48:08 GMT

Music Corner
The end result of re-arranging my living room: almost everything in one corner!

"This is the best that professionals can come up with? Really lame! --bdt Why ..."

Sat, 19 Jun 2010 21:33:55 GMT

This is the best that professionals can come up with? Really lame! --bdt

Why is Information Valuable to us?

We all recognise that information is valuable – if you’ve ever paid for a newspaper or magazine, you have demonstrated this. But why – specifically – is information valuable, and why is one piece of information more valuable than another?

There are three ways information can be valuable to us….

It entertains us
It helps us make better decisions
It helps someone else make better decisions, and we can exchange this information for something else

–Why is Information Valuable to us? :: Infogineering - Master Your Information

"Garry Tan and Sachin Agarwal excitedly told me about their master plan in the..."

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:50:04 GMT

Garry Tan and Sachin Agarwal excitedly told me about their master plan in the summer of 2008. They were going to build a new blogging service where users would send posts by email instead of by using a web interface. It was to be called Posterous, and I don’t think they had written single a line of code at that point. I laughed at them. “Another blogging service? Don’t we have enough of those,” I asked. “And by email? That’s just a feature any other service can add. You’re crazy.”

Tan and Agarwal hunkered down in a tiny one-bedroom apartment in Cambridge, MA and wrote thousands of lines of code. They launched Posterous on June 28th, 2008. Within weeks, thousands of people were actively using the service. It has now been about two years since they launched, and Posterous is visited by millions of people every month. I use it almost every day. You’re reading this on a Posterous blog.

Posterous took an idea and executed it extremely well. They launched early, with the minimum viable number of features, and then tested their theory that email was a better interface for posting — and of course it is, because everyone has an email account. Then they rapidly iterated. They added features one-by-one until finding themselves with a complete product that really is the dead simple way to post anything anywhere. They found a missing market in the blogging industry.

–I laughed at Posterous, but they proved me wrong

"Why Media Sift? Web search, website evaluation, issues of privacy, authorship..."

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 23:59:24 GMT

"Why Media Sift? Web search, website evaluation, issues of privacy, authorship and identity are known as 21st Century skills, necessary for today’s students and difficult for teachers to teach. Either teachers do not have the skills or dont have tools to teach students in an engaging way. Students often complain that they already have these abilities, in which case Media Sift is a way for them to demonstrate that knowledge and put it into practice. In addition to learning web skills, students also come in contact with a full range of topics, with the best work regarding those topics easily accessible."

–Media Sift at DMediaProject.com

"I'm not sure it's in the best interest of this country to be spending hours, ..."

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:56:18 GMT

"I'm not sure it's in the best interest of this country to be spending hours, days, weeks, and months discussing some of the most controversial issues in this country as to whether they should be part of our constitution. Regardless of whether it is a red state or a blue state ... this is not how legislatures in the 50 states should be debating very controversial issues."

–Steve Brown, executive director of the Rhode Island ACLU
quoted in Lawrence Lessig: Rhode Island's David Segal's Call for a Constitutional Convention

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"“ . . . in promoting the good of this whole aggregate, the good of individual..."

Sun, 30 May 2010 23:49:28 GMT

“ . . . in promoting the good of this whole aggregate, the good of individuals is contained and promoted.”

"Treatise of the Laws of Nature"
Richard Cumberland
Philosopher and Bishop of Peterborough
1691–1718

–RSA - Citizen Power Peterborough

I would very much have like to follow your Soup (mine is on my GroundPlane si...

Sun, 30 May 2010 20:33:48 GMT

[Reposted from yoomoot]

I would very much have like to follow your Soup (mine is on my GroundPlane site) but ... you're only ReTweeting. That's too bad. (I RT on a dormant blog,) Soup is a great way to aggregate material. And your project is quite close to what I've been working on. HeyHo, opportunity lost.

"[I]f you listen to mainstream media, our education system, politicians, and ..."

Fri, 28 May 2010 22:21:33 GMT

[I]f you listen to mainstream media, our education system, politicians, and even college textbooks, everything else is the “asset” and human knowledge is treated like some expendable line item that is unworthy of economic development – or equality for that mattter.

Knowledge is invisible because there is no inventory. Why are we unable to see things like this? This is the most stunning cognitive deficit imaginable for the World’s most developed country. Why is this such an impossible philosophical chasm that we cannot seem to cross with our modern accounting system?

Now, what would happen if we did? Perhaps we would find find a cognitive surplus.

Social Surplus vs. Demand

–Social Surplus vs. Demand | The Relationship Economy...... - Business Exchange

""...New social networking technologies can be used to solve down-to-earth hum..."

Mon, 24 May 2010 15:39:32 GMT

"...New social networking technologies can be used to solve down-to-earth human needs, by enlisting millions of [citizens] in service to the country."

–Craig Newmark

"In 1931, Alfred R Lindesmith developed [it as] a methodology to refute existi..."

Mon, 24 May 2010 01:34:40 GMT

In 1931, Alfred R Lindesmith developed [it as] a methodology to refute existing hypotheses

Harold Lasswell formulated the core questions of content analysis: "Who says what, to whom, why, to what extent and with what effect?." Ole Holsti (1969) offers a broad definition of content analysis as "any technique for making inferences by objectively and systematically identifying specified characteristics of messages." Kimberly A. Neuendorf (2002, p. 10) offers a six-part definition of content analysis:

"Content analysis is a summarizing, quantitative analysis of messages that relies on the scientific method (including attention to objectivity, intersubjectivity, a priori design, reliability, validity, generalizability, replicability, and hypothesis testing) and is not limited as to the types of variables that may be measured or the context in which the messages are created or presented."

–Content analysis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

""When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in soc..."

Sun, 23 May 2010 17:10:54 GMT

"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves, in the course of time, a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it."

Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850), French economist

"The single most important quality needed to resist evil is moral autonomy. Moral autonomy is possible only through reflection, self-determination and the courage not to cooperate."

Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) German philosopher

–By Rodrigue Tremblay, "The Moral Dimension of Things" Monday, March 8, 2010

"Bohm Dialogue (also known as Bohmian Dialogue) is a freely-flowing group conv..."

Sat, 22 May 2010 18:31:46 GMT

"Bohm Dialogue (also known as Bohmian Dialogue) is a freely-flowing group conversation that makes an attempt, utilizing a theoretical understanding of the way thoughts relate to universal reality, to more effectively investigate the crises that face society, and indeed the whole of human nature and consciousness.

see also ""Dialogue - A proposal" By David Bohm, Donald Factor and Peter Garrett

–Bohm Dialogue - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"File under "Doing the Obvious" "In June, 2009, San Francisco CIO Chris Vein l..."

Sat, 22 May 2010 16:48:53 GMT

File under "Doing the Obvious"

"In June, 2009, San Francisco CIO Chris Vein launched an application that allows citizens to access the City’s 311 Call Center through Twitter. Instead of making a phone call, members of the public can send a tweet to alert the city about a pothole, or to find out about the City’s green initiatives. This led to the Open311 API, which provides access to government data by third-party applications. Entrepreneurs have already built some useful apps with this, such as CitySourced, MyCityWay, SeeClickFix and TweetMy311. Buoyed by this success, the city is going one step further – to open up all non-private data. The City’s director of innovation, Jay Nath, is building DataSF.org – what he calls “the city’s one stop web site for government data”.""

–The Open Gov Initiative: Enabling Techies to Solve Government Problems

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–xkcd: Secret Worlds

workspace-20MAY2010

Thu, 20 May 2010 23:18:58 GMT

workspace-20MAY2010
Clumsy/fast rejig of my workspace; mal-ware yesterday (1st time ever; horrifying) so had to bring game box into the work flow.

"“Among the modern societies, only those that are able to introduce into the s..."

Thu, 20 May 2010 21:37:13 GMT

"“Among the modern societies, only those that are able to introduce into the secular domain the essential contents of their religious traditions which point beyond the merely human realm will also be able to rescue the substance of the human.”"

–Jurgen Habermas quoted in Does Reason Know What It Is Missing? - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com

"“Instead of writing history, we are always beating our brains to discover how..."

Sun, 16 May 2010 15:58:10 GMT

“Instead of writing history, we are always beating our brains to discover how history ought to be written.”

“[As] Hegel lamented in The Philosophy of History”

–Not So Natural Selection on "What Darwin Got Wrong" | The New York Review of Books

"“He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my cont..."

Sun, 16 May 2010 10:34:35 GMT

“He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.”

–--Albert Einstein

"For Hegel, freedom was not just a psychological phenomenon, but the essence o..."

Wed, 12 May 2010 17:57:16 GMT

For Hegel, freedom was not just a psychological phenomenon, but the essence of what was distinctively human. In this sense, freedom and nature are diametrically opposed. Freedom does not mean the freedom to live in nature or according to nature; rather, freedom begins only where nature ends. Human freedom emerges only when man is able to transcend his natural, animal existence, and to create a new self for himself. The emblematic starting point for this process of self-creation is the struggle to the death for pure prestige." Chapter 13; p. 512 [emph added --bdt]

–The End of History. Francis Fukuyama (1992) - at Amazon.com; see also Fukuyama's "Introduction", at Marxists.org

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