• Chosun TKD: Master Cook’s Articles
  Articles from Doug Cook, an excellent author on traditional taekwondo
  (tags: taekwondo)

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 of the way things that happen in one part of the world affect things that happen elsewhere.

• Songs Of Newfoundland And Labrador
  Quite a collection of songs with midi files and some guitar tabs.
  (tags: music songbook)

• Crooked Timber » » The myth of “The Myth of the Paperless Office”
  I have gone almost completely paperless in my business. How about you?
  (tags: business work research paper office interesting Technology)
• Rashomon (1950)
  This film is Akira Kurosawa’s adaptation of Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s short story dealing with the subjectivy of eyewitness evidence in the solving of a crime.
  (tags: film storytelling kurosawa)
• What is Chaos? An Interactive Online Course for Everyone
  A nice introduction to the math and science of chaos. Rich ground for generating analogues in the organizational world.
  (tags: chaos complexity culture education learning math organization philosophy research science systems theory tutorial)
• FRACTAL CHAOS: the Philosophy of Freedom and Self Determination
  New Agey site but contains useful information on how the science of fractals can contribute to a consciousness that does not separate science and spirit.
  (tags: chaos complexity geometry math philosophy science spirituality fractals organization)
• In Praise of Chaos
  An older paper on three major ways that chaos is viewed and the respective responses by systems of order. A paper in the social and cultural realm.
  (tags: chaos organization)
• Designs, Intelligent and Stupid | Cosmic Variance
  Nice blog post with great comments on complexity, evolution and emergence.
  (tags: complexity evolution organization)
• A Book of Five Rings
  A translation of the classic text on samurai sword wielding.
  (tags: philosophy samurai history research spirituality war practice meditation being)

• An Earth Without People — [ environment ]: Scientific American
  A new way to examine humanity’s impact on the environment is to consider how the world would fare if all the people disappeared By Steve Mirsky
  (tags: environment nature science interesting toread)