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Radiohead Says Name Your Own Price for New Album

Wonderful spirit! The spirit of giving is gaining momentum. Endorses the [http://aloha.aardrock.com Aloha] project. Resonates with [https://martien.aardrock.com/2007/09/09/bill-clinton-giving/ Clinton’s Give].

[http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/01/164234 Radiohead Says Name Your Own Price for New Album]: “TechDirt is reporting that the band Radiohead has apparently chosen the path less traveled when it comes to the release of their new album. They are offering two very unique methods of purchase for their new music, the ability to name your own price for a digital download or the ability to purchase a special ‘discbox’ which will contain the album on CD and vinyl in addition to a horde of goodies. Will be interesting to see how this new model works out for them and what it might do to more traditional methods.

(Via [http://slashdot.org/ Slashdot].)

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Telekommunisten – the worker-owned telephone company

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 on our products goes directly to the maintenance and improvement of the service you receive.

Venture Communism

Venture Communism is a project to research, experiment with, and initiate social enterprises, particularly a rent-sharing based proposed form called a Venture Commune. The project also encourages dialogue and investigation of alternative economies and workers struggle against private property .

The goal is to promote understanding of the relationship between distribution of productive assets, political power and global exploitation and poverty and to investigate how worker-controlled enterprises can contribute to solving this problem, as well as to put such ideas into practise.

Several articles have been written and many on-line correspondences sent describing and discussing venture communism, as well as analyzing the nature of property generally.

Source: [[http://www.telekommunisten.net/about Telekommunisten]]—”’The Revolution is Calling”’.

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Bill Clinton: Giving

[http://giving.clintonfoundation.org/ ]
[http://giving.clintonfoundation.org/ 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 ”'[http://wiki.aardrock.com/Aloha:klik Geef]”’™ from the [http://aloha.aardrock.com Aloha project].

Thank you Bill.

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The Science Delusion?

Wonderful rebuttal by Deepak Chopra: [http://www.intentblog.com/archives/2007/09/deepaks_article.html 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 and myself dig deeper into consiousness, the universe, quantum physics, God, Allah, Buddha and more. We’re becoming more conscious and knowledgeable about it.

And it’s about time, since we’re rapidly evolving towards the ”'[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noosphere noosphere]”’, catalyzed by the [http://www.amazon.com/Time-Technosphere-Law-Human-Affairs/dp/1879181991 technosphere] with the Internet as its most brilliant example at this time.

Spaceship Earth is entering its most risky trajectory when [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamorphosis metamorphosing] to its next order—extreme [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence emergence]. And just like the life-threatening phase during the metamorphosis from caterpillar to butterfly, albeit on a very large, global, scale.

”’May we all evolve into a global, and perhaps universal wisdom and happiness”’. And beware, these massive scale changes or ”’emergence”’ happens relatively abrupt. Buckle on.

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Einstein’s God, or The Hopes for Secular Spirituality

Wonderful and clear visions on Einstein and God, rational science and spirituality.

Chopra uses the term ”’secular spirituality”’. A pretty paradoxal pearl.

If Einstein pointed the way to a new form of spirituality through his comment on Buddhism in which he gave the key criteria for a “”’cosmic religion of the future”’.” Such a religion, he said, should:

*Transcend a personal God
*Avoid dogma and theology
*Embrace both the natural and the spiritual
*Establish itself on a personal sense of unity among all things

Read Chopra’s complete thread right from the source:
*[http://www.intentblog.com/archives/2007/08/einsteins_god_o.html Einstein’s God, or The Hopes for Secular Spirituality (Part 1)]
*[http://www.intentblog.com/archives/2007/08/einsteins_god_o_1.html Einstein’s God, or The Hopes for Secular Spirituality (Part 2)]
*[http://www.intentblog.com/archives/2007/09/einsteins_god_o_3.html Einstein’s God, or The Hopes for Secular Spirituality (Part 3)]
*[http://www.intentblog.com/archives/2007/09/einsteins_god_o_2.html Einstein’s God, or The Hopes for Secular Spirituality (Part 4)]
*[http://www.intentblog.com/archives/2007/09/einsteins_god_o_4.html Einstein’s God, or The Hopes for Secular Spirituality (Part 5)]

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Collective Intelligence

[http://wiki.aardrock.com/Collective_Intelligence Collective-Intelligence-Pierre-Levy.gif]

Converted my [http://wiki.aardrock.com/Collective_Intelligence highlights from Pierre Lévy’s Collective Intelligence]—Mankind’s emerging world in cyberspace to my wiki.

Pierre Lévy’s vision towards the noosphere…

Key words: ”’nomadic earth, molar technologies, anthropological spaces, collective intellect, informational universe, commodity space, knowledge space, molecular politics, preceding spaces, collective intelligence, agent intellect, territorial space, intelligent city, fourth space, angelic body, intelligent communities, intelligent community, intellectual technologies”’.

Beware, it’s 100 KB.

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Sociale Databank Nederland en Grondvest

Gisteren tijdens de bijeenkomst van [http://www.ecoduso.org/ EcoDuSo] danwel de Happy Planet Group werdt ik voor het eerst geconfronteerd met de [http://www.sdnl.nl/ Sociale Databank Nederland].

Interessante bronnen en groepen mensen. Veel inspiratie voor [http://aardsource.org Aarde]. M.n. zaken zoals een Algemeen Basis Inkomen en [http://www.sdnl.nl/gv-1k03b.htm Belasting Ontrokken Waarde]. Ik herinner me dat Eckart Wintzen daar een keer een column in Ode over repte.

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A Simpler Way

A few quotes from Myron Kellner-Rogers that Liza Sitton-Taylor captured during her conversation with Myron:

*The only thing keeping us stuck is what we resist.
*We become what we ignore.
*Let go of defending against your neuroses.
*The cure for burnout is not rest but wholeheartedness.
*There’s no such thing as information overload, there’s just a meaning shortage.
*No learning happens when evaluation is present.

Another interesting thing is that the systems model Myron uses has 9 circles:
*The first set of three = systems, structures and processes.
*The second set of three = identity (who are we now?), relationships and information.
*The third set of three are: meaning, trust and action.

We would expect predictability from the first set, but this isn’t so because it really depends on the second and third sets. How does the system make meaning? It has to do with the identity and its relations with the environment. He also talked about how the self of the collective arises and is especially interested in how you access that collective self.

(Via [http://www.msod.com/conference/2002/recap/kellner-rogers.htm NOTES from MSOD Alumni Conference] by Liza Sitton-Taylor).

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Time & the Technosphere

13 maart 2007 had ik een afspraak met Martijn Arnoldus van [http://creativecommons.nl/ Creative Commons Nederland] over het uitbrengen van het [http://aloha.aardrock.com Aloha-boek] onder een Creative Commons licentie.

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Ik was heerlijk op tijd en het weer was ook prachtig. Dus kon ik heerlijk even snuffelen bij de [http://www.fsf.nl/ Frontier Bookshop] aan de Leliegracht in Amsterdam. Precies tegenover het pand waar Creative Commons huist.

Bijzonder prettig gesprek gehad met een lieftallige jongedame. O.a. over het Aloha-project. Ze wilde daar graag aan meewerken. Wat ze meestal doen is dat ze voor vijf boeken of zo aandacht en ruimte scheppen in hun vakblad wat ze naar abonnees sturen. Cool.

Ik ben daar de winkel uitgelopen met [http://www.nl.bol.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/eCS/Store/nl/-/EUR/BOL_DisplayProductInformation-Start?BOL_OWNER_ID=1001004004725800&Section=BOOK de Feng Shui-gids] (€14.95).

Tijdens het afrekenen gaf ze me gratis de [http://www.mayatzolkin.com/13MoonDiary.html 13-moon diary of natural time] (2006-2007) mee. Boeiend vind ik. Natuurlijke tijd en natuurlijke ritmes spreken me bijzonder aan. Lijkt me leuk om eens met natuurlijke ritmes software te ontwikkelen.

Sindsdien boeit het me steeds meer. Goed startpunt is het [http://www.tortuga.com/eng/network/netherlands/index.php Planet Art Network]. Zie ook de [http://www.lawoftime.org/ Foundation for the Law of Time]. Veel plezier.

En omdat ik vandaag in [http://www.mystiek.nl/ Mystiek] toch al een paar boeken meenam, heb ik hier meteen maar [http://www.nl.bol.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/eCS/Store/nl/-/EUR/BOL_DisplayProductInformation-Start?BOL_OWNER_ID=1001004001801379&Section=BOOK_EN Time & the Technosphere]—The Law of Time in Human Affairs van [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jose_Arguelles José Argüelles] gekocht. €22.95.

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De eenheid van leven

De-eenheid-van-leven.gifVandaag aangeschaft in [http://www.mystiek.nl/ Mystiek]: [http://www.nl.bol.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/eCS/Store/nl/-/EUR/BOL_DisplayProductInformation-Start?BOL_OWNER_ID=1001004001712389&Section=BOOK De eenheid van leven] van Fritjof Capra. €22.99.

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Hoe wij God kunnen ervaren

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Vanochtend bij [http://www.mystiek.nl/ Mystiek] in Rotterdam een paar boeken gekocht. O.a. [http://www.nl.bol.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/eCS/Store/nl/-/EUR/BOL_DisplayProductInformation-Start?BOL_OWNER_ID=1001004004717918&Section=BOOK Hoe wij God kunnen ervaren] van Deepak Chopra. €19.95. Benieuwd hoe dat uit gaat pakken tijdens onze vakantie volgende week…

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Coming Up – World’s First ‘Zero-Carbon’ City

A city free of cars, pedestrian-friendly, powered by renewable energy and surrounded by wind and photovoltaic farms—all in the middle of a petroleum-rich desert.

This five billion US dollar plan, which might do credit to a sci-fi film set, is envisaged for Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). When complete, in 2009, it will be the nearest thing yet to a zero-carbon, zero-waste city. Using the traditional planning principles of a walled city, together with existing technologies to achieve sustainable development, this six sq km expanse will house an energy, science and technology community.

[http://www.ipsnews.org/news.asp?idnews=38187 Read the full story at Inter Press Service].

Via Deepak Chopra’s [http://www.anhglobal.org/ Alliance for a New Humanity]

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Freeman Dyson On Open Source Biology

Freeman Dyson, I love you!
:…the rules of ”’Open Source sharing”’ will be extended from the exchange of software to the exchange of genes. Then the evolution of life will once again be communal, as it was in the good old days before separate species and intellectual property were invented.

[http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/30/1927205&from=rss Read more of this story] at [http://slashdot.org/ Shashdot].

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Conscious Computing

Now that the world is heating up, so are the discussions and debates on reducing resources required for computing. Reduced power, reduced heating, sleeping and suspending processors and processes.

Effective and efficient handling of our computing needs at minimal resource consumption in the complete life cycle of a network of computers has become the focus of attention. I call this ”’conscious computing”’ across the board—and my dream is to have a ”’Conscious Computing Award”’ for those solutions, projects and companies that will startle our view in this area and provide unprecedented breakthroughs in the area of smart spiritual software.

I will start tracking ideas, initiatives, programs, projects and inspirational sources on this topic. Here are the first two:
#[http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/cpu/power-plays.ars Power Plays: How power consumption will shape the future of computing] on how Intel is using smart self-organizing principles on chip-level to maximize the performance/power ratio in favour of green or ”’conscious computing”’.
#Sun’s Jonathan Schwartz on [http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/size_matters Switching Subjects] to drastically simplify cabling and reducing power and cooling requirements in massive data centers in their ”’Project Magnum”’ and ”'[http://www.sun.com/servers/hpc/SunConstellationPreview.jsp Constellation System]”’. Good that Sun has ”’Andy Bechtolsheim”’ back on board. Do you know that [[Andy missed his plane and changed his name]]?