My web-friend Andy Borrows has been stumbling around the web and unearthing some lovely treasures. Here is a little flash app that demonstrates attractors. I killed 20 minutes with that one tonight. And here is a nice version of John Conway’s game of life. As I was playing this one I had the uncanny sensation that I was watching the world. There are pockets of peace and pockets of energy and it’s interesting to see how the pockets of energy creep around and interact with the pockets of peace. This is a stunning long range picture …
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A summery Friday here at the Lot. Here’s what tickled my eyes this week: El Cameron, my favourite flamenco singer. Full of duende this night. A brilliantly rendered story of the four quadrants of integral theory. This map is just so helpful in looking at so many sitautions. This particular presentation is a lovely use of web technology as well. So you want to speak Danish? Who wouldn’t… The first place to start is by mastering this phrase: rødgrød med fløde. If you can’t get it on the first or second (or 27th) try, have a look at this detailed …
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“We all fight on two fronts, the one facing the enemy and the one facing what we do to the enemy.” –Joseph Boyden, Three Day Road, p. 301 Three Day Road is about two Oji-Cree soldiers who fight for Canada in the first world war. They survive the fight with the enemy on the battlefield, but they lose the war to the other enemy, the one that lurks on the inner front. It is only *I* that holds others as “enemies.” No one is born into this world as my enemy. I create that story. My …
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Songs Of Newfoundland And Labrador Quite a collection of songs with midi files and some guitar tabs. (tags: music songbook)
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Notes collected this week: Here is a link to a story of a most remarkable wedding between two lovely women who met on LiveJournal, found help through Craigslist and had it all documented on Blogger, Blogware and YouTube. And what is so remarkable about this story is that it is a story of how these technologies helped people find warmth and kindness and love in a company of strangers. The new world is blossoming, and we are finding one another, and discovering that we are highly pre-disposed to friendship and connection. del.icio.us! If, like me, you are addicted to TED …