Quantum physics is claimed to support the mystical notion that the mind creates reality. However, an objective reality, with no special role for consciousness, human or cosmic, is consistent with all observations.
Source: Committee for Skeptical Inquiry » Victor J. Stenger » Quantum Quackery.
A Chinese Virtual Currency Challenges the Yuan: “Radon360 writes ‘A Wall Street Journal article reports that China’s fastest-rising currency isn’t the yuan.
It’s the QQ coin—”’online play money”’ created by marketers to sell such things as virtual flowers for instant-message buddies, cellphone ringtones and magical swords for online games. In recent weeks, the QQ coin’s ”’real-world value”’ has risen as much as 70%. It’s the most extreme case of a so-called virtual currency blurring the boundaries between the online and real worlds—and ”’challenging legal limits”’.
A Chinese Internet company called Tencent Holdings Ltd. designed the payment system in 2002 to allow its 233 million regular registered users to shop for treats in its virtual world. Virtual currencies are in use in many countries—but nowhere have they taken root more deeply than in China.’
(Via Slashdot.)
Amigo—zicht op enkelvoudige eenvoud—over Jnana Yoga, Advaita Vedanta en andere Non-dualistische benaderingen.
Mooie en diepe teksten met een typografische kwinkslag op http://www.ods.nl/amigo/ Met dank aan Eduard Povel voor de tip toen hij me gisteren [http://www.ods.nl/amigo/amigo10/nn_zin.html De betekenis van het leven] stuurde.
[http://wiki.aardrock.com/LandONE 
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Eduard Povel tipped me on the Natural Capital Institute today—helping society move towards a socially just and environmentally restorative existence.
”’All open source. Hurray!”’
Wow, what a fine initiative. I’m going to contact them to find synergy between NCI and my LandONE initiative.
Stumbled over http://www.quantumconsciousness.org/. Don’t want to forget about it so this is just a little reminder for me to find back later and explore…
Lot’s of interesting stuff on http://2012.startpagina.nl/. Must say that I still need to get used to the more excentric stuff like crop circles, and 2012 prophecies.
Thanks for this pointer as well, Eduard.
This morning, I got an email from Ronald Bernard from [http://www.spirittowin.nl/ Spirit to Win] that caused me to line up my short-, mid-, and longterm vision and plans. I like this line up so much, I’ll share them with y’all.
*[http://wiki.aardrock.com/Wanneer_dan Wanneer Dan—vision].
*[http://wiki.aardrock.com/LandONE LandONE—long term].
*[http://wiki.aardrock.com/Aardbron_als_voedingsbodem Aardbron—mid term].
*[http://wiki.aardrock.com/Aloha Aloha—short term].
*[http://wiki.aardrock.com/Serengeti Serengeti—financial energy].
*[[Love—The Purest Form of Energy|Love—pure energy]]
*[http://wiki.aardrock.com/Scheppend_vermogen Scheppend Vermogen—impuls] for Consciousness Matters.
Beware, some is in Dutch, some in English. The Dutch stuff will be transformed into English some time.
In the same email, Eduard Povel also pointed me to Jan Wicherink from [http://www.soulsofdistortion.nl Souls of Distortion]. An interesting man, resonating with “What the Bleep?”, science and spirituality, and even [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satriani Joe Satriani], one of my favourite guitarists as well. I’ll ping him for a jam session.
I’ve heard about fuel cells that run on the energy release when hydrogen and oxygen bind in to water. And where you still need energy up front to split the water into these two components.
But Eduard Povel pointed me to ”'[http://www.byronnewenergy.com/ Byron New Energy]”’, also using water, but ‘cosmic charged water’, delivering [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_motion perpetual motion] that may well solve our hunger for energy.
Interesting. Will dive into it.
Digitale LEGO® moeiteloos doorlopend actueel zonder handmatig onderhoud via mashups”’.
[http://google.com/ Google], [http://ebay.com/ eBay], [http://amazon.com/ Amazon], [http://youtube.com/ YouTube], [http://last.fm Last.fm] en [http://yahoo.com Yahoo] geven externe programmeurs toegang tot delen van hun kernsoftware via zogeheten [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/API API]s: technische bruggetjes.
Zo ontstaat een nieuw web van zogenaamde mashups. Kortom, API + API = [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mashup_%28web_application_hybrid%29 mashup]. Ook bekend als ”'[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_as_a_Service SAAS—Software As A Service]”’.
[http://www.ning.com/ Ning.com], [http://www.openkapow.com/ OpenKapow.com] en [http://pipes.yahoo.com/ Yahoo Pipes] vereenvoudigen verder de groei van mashups. Koppel dit aan open source tools zoals [http://mediawiki.org/ MediaWiki] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki wiki]) en [http://wordpres.org/ WordPress] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog blog]) en je krijgt een uitermate rijke voedingsbodem.
Ideaal voor [http://nnn.aardbron.nl/ inititatieven zoals NNN].
Do ”’consumer driven innovation”’, customer care and ”'[http://wikinomics.com/ Wikinomics]”’ work? Well, at [http://www.pgconnectdevelop.com/ Procter & Gamble] they do. Read [http://www.cio.com/archive/020107/sb2_innovation_procter.html CIO Magazine on Wikinomics].
I’m a ”’big big fan of co-creation”’ and it’s been like this ever since the great Internet technologies like mail, the web and [http://java.net Java] emerged. [http://kk.org Kevin Kelly] already wrote about it when he says: “”'[http://www.kk.org/newrules/newrules-9.html And whoever has the smartest customers wins]”’ in his book [http://www.kk.org/newrules/ New Rules for the New Economy].
Kelly’s strategies:
*”’Make customers as smart as you are.”’
*”’Connect customers to customers.”’
*”’All things being equal, choose technology that connects.”’
*”’Imagine your customers as employees.”’
[http://wiki.aardrock.com/images/4/44/NNN-Concept.pdf 
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Een voorlopig concept voor de werking en functionaliteit van NNN. Alles op één A4-tje. Bespreken we met de kernkring op vrijdag 23 maart in Haarlem.
”’Klik op het plaatje voor een hoog-resolutie PDF versie”’ (100 KB).
Computer scientists and visionaries today see a future in which Web 3.0 will help us engage in virtual battles with cancer cells, keep us physically independent as we age, and achieve a deeper emotional connection to things that matter most to us.
Dana Pavel believes that technology can make a profound difference in our lives if computers can understand more about where we are and how we are feeling.
“At some point you want to do something more than accomplish tasks through technologies and devices,” said the researcher who studies affective and context-aware computing at Nokia’s Helsinki Research Center.
Seems like Nokia is working hard on this. Again, resonates with [http://wiki.aardrock.com/Slimme_Spirituele_Software Martien’s Smart Spiritual Software].
Source: http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3623291
Hmmm… although initially interesting, on closer look there does not seem much activity here. Resonates with my Smart Spiritual Software. Wonder how to rekindle this initiative.
See
Spiritual Computing – The Mindfulness/Technology Dialogue
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