At Home in the Universe
Posted in buddhism, consciousness, english, quantum, science, spiritual on Oct 15th, 2007
Gaston Vilé was searching for the essential difference between consciousness and awareness. While on the phone, I told him that Amit Goswami’s The Self-Aware Universe has an extensive point on this very difference. I promised Gaston to make the key pages available to him, and so I did.
While on his search, Gaston found the website [...]
Posted in architecture, chaordic, computing, creative, english, network, open source, smart software, typography on Oct 9th, 2007
Stumbled across a wonderful website yesterday with a lot of awseome and open source Flash applications that produce wonderful graphics, many of them fractal, complex. Check out Levitated.net—a friendly company.
Posted in computing, english, network, peer-to-peer, smart software on Oct 5th, 2007
Martijn van Steenbergen tipped me on The Storm Worm:
Some key points:
Storm is designed like an ant colony
Rather than having all hosts communicate to a central server or set of servers, Storm uses a peer-to-peer network for C2.
And even if a C2 node is taken down, the system doesn’t suffer. Like a hydra with many heads, [...]
Posted in aarde, consciousness, english, levenskunst, whole world on Oct 4th, 2007
How coincidental. Yesterday Thomas Herald from Dream Manifesto writes about Longest running study shows helping others makes us happy.
And today I receive Mike Dooley’s Note From The Universe, stating the same:
First, as a child, it seems like the entire world is there for you and you rush to drink from its every cup, sometimes wondering [...]
Posted in chaordic, chaorganization, community, crowd sourcing, english, innovation on Oct 3rd, 2007
Flirting with the Crowds: Sami Viitamäki was early to come up with a very comprehensible model about Crowdsourcing: the FLIRT model. Read more on Carl’s post on Flirting with the Crowds.
Posted in english, typography on Oct 2nd, 2007
While working on a new stylesheet (CSS) for my web presence, and being a zealot when it comes to a baseline grid snapping all text, I found this wonderful article on Setting Type on the Web to a Baseline Grid by Wislon Miner. Thanks Wilson.
Cherry-pick from Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox for October 1 on Blah-Blah Text: Keep, Cut, or Kill?.
Summary:
Introductory text on Web pages is usually too long, so users skip it. But short intros can increase usability by explaining the remaining content’s purpose.
Enjoy being inspired by Nielsen’s writing for the web.
Posted in chaorganization, creative, english, innovation, whole world on Sep 25th, 2007
Worker Owned and Operated
telekommunisten is controlled by it’s workers and committed to staying that way, we believe we can serve our customers best and at the lowest cost by remaining focused on meeting the needs of our employees and customers, not on profits for outside shareholders. Being worker-owned means that all the money you spend [...]
Posted in chaordic, community, english, network, open source, peer-to-peer, smart software on Sep 21st, 2007
SixApart: Opening the Social Graph:
We think that the best way for you to manage your network is to stop thinking about all of the little pieces and to start focusing on the big picture: you and the people who matter to you. We think relationships mean more than email addresses or which service you’re signed [...]
Posted in architecture, chaordic, chaorganization, computing, english, network, peer-to-peer, smart software on Sep 18th, 2007
SwarmOS Demonstrated at Idea Festival: “PacoCheezdom writes ‘Intelligent Life has short summary of a demonstration by MIT professor James McLurkin of his new group-minded robots, which run an operating system called ‘Swarm OS’.
The robots are able to work together as a group not by communicating with all members of the group at once, but by [...]
Posted in aarde, aloha, buddhism, consciousness, english, give, spiritual, whole world on Sep 9th, 2007
Bill Clinton published a book titled Giving, focusing on philantropy, charity and volunteering.
I feel very much strengthened by this, as it resonates tremenduously with the core brand click Geef™ from the Aloha project.
Thank you Bill.
Posted in architecture, computing, english, innovation, language, network, open source, peer-to-peer, smart software on Sep 7th, 2007
Refreshed my link with Gerald “tensegrity” de Jong, triggered by a blog entry from TED titled Creatures on the beach from the Dutch sculptor Theo Jansen which instantly reminded me of Gerald’s Fluidiom and Darwin at Home projects.
Gerald’s email signature also mentioned Groovy Actors:
In a nutshell it’s a natural next step, building further on object-oriented [...]
Posted in computing, english, language, network, open source, peer-to-peer, smart software on Sep 6th, 2007
A new programming language? Well, at least one I never heard of until today. It’s called Erlang and one of the interesting aspects are that it eases concurrent programming and distributed processes.
Erlang is a programming language designed at the Ericsson Computer Science Laboratory. Open-source Erlang is being released to help encourage the spread of Erlang [...]
Posted in aarde, buddhism, consciousness, creative, english, quantum, science, spiritual, whole world on Sep 5th, 2007
Wonderful rebuttal by Deepak Chopra: The Science Delusion? Review of Richard Dawkins: The God Delusion. Materialism vs. spiritualism and God. And resonating with Einstein’s God, or The Hopes for Secular Spirituality.
Thank you Richard Dawkins, for writing your “The God Delusion” for it creates enormous attention for this ever important subject. You make people like Chopra [...]