I’m just tucking into to David Weinberger’s Everything Is Miscellaneous. (I chose to start reading at the beginning by the way!). In the second chapter, on alphabetization, Weinberger talks about the arbitrariness of classification schemes for organizing knowledge. Everything ordered by human beings is done so arbitrarily, and no one scheme is going to capture exactly the right kind of order that needs to happens. This is why tagging is so important (and I confess to being a lax lately with tags. Perhaps this is a good time to change that practice). “Knowledge is what happens when the joints of …
Theory of Um/Yang – Hwa Rang Do East Coast A short primer on the philosophy of Um and Yang (tags: taekwondo) Philospohy of the Hwarang The ancient Korean warriors, grandfathers of taekwondo. (tags: taekwondo)
Just in the process of buying a beautiful piece of Canadian art for our business and we discovered that accountant said we can even depreciate it. Depreciate it? “Yes,” he said, “but only if it’s Canadian art.” What the hell? Who struck this Faustian bargain for Canadian artists?
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 …