Woe to you, you brood of passive, shallow learners! You bloggers!

07:47 am

sojourners on the medical care discussion

http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=action.display&item=HC09-main#

interesting that ad points to speaking of faith

thought of peter maurin’s easy essays – “clarify”, with reference to the polarization of the health care debate

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poked around tucson tabernacle on stone

http://www.worldsfamousphotos.com/the-pillar-of-fire-1950.html

As William Branham (an influential Bible minister sometimes credited with founding the Latter Rain Movement within American Pentecostal churches) stood at the podium, a halo of fire appeared above his head.

cult. not even a particularly interesting one. best part of the quick googling was finding the photo website.

shame he stopped posted oct 2008.

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12:00 pm - the poorest lose and suffer first

two articles from yesterday’s reading bother me.

the first is the Zabbaleen and egypt’s unneccessary culling of pigs

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8185844.stm

http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0106/p07s02-woaf.html

http://freecopts.net/english/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1039&Itemid=2

http://emilykwilliams.wordpress.com/2009/05/24/trash-pigs-and-coptic-christianity/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4602185.stm

the second is the enforcement of air pollution laws in calcutta, essentially india’s clunker law

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8187174.stm

as with all complex human activities there are any number of perspectives on the issues.

from the moslem egyptian bureaucrat who wants to upgrade his city and get rid of the dirty smelly christians.

to the zabbaleen who has been doing this for a lifetime and is afraid of losing what little he and his family have.

the axis of force and compulsion versus education and persuasion is obvious, but the other axis looks like society versus individual or more likely the self interest of various classes masquerading their interests as the interest of the larger society. the issue is how and whom collects and recycles the garbage.  as the article presents it, two sides, “modern” corporate, heavy on the capital versus individual, by hand, heavy on the labor.  i’m sure it’s more complex and nuanced then this, but that is a good place to start thinking about it.

india’s clunker program is a bit more society versus individual, general welfare versus individuals who own old vehicles and can not afford to upgrade to meet the law.  it is also that old issue of everyone pays a little bit versus some who gain a great deal that permeats the whole environmental discussion and government regulatory issues.

but in both cases it is a very poor class of people who are losing not just a little but everything.

worth thinking about

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12:07 pm - what a shock

i downloaded a series of 30 youtube videos overnight

thunderf00t’s “why do people laugh at creationists”

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=F3F42AD3758C72D6

i’m on #17 or so now.

the video starts with a piece from tony48219

and references venomfangx http://www.youtube.com/user/venomfangx

as i am apt/programmed to do, i looked them up

what a shock to see that tony48219 committed a murder suicide against another youtube poster,

Asia McGowan http://www.youtube.com/user/asiamcgowan!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTzvaXWiZDE

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10:41 am

http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/15/a-river-runs-under-it/
opening up rivers

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/15/dining/15pour.html?em=&pagewanted=print
roman grape terraces, i’ve seen chinese rice terrace i wonder if these are as moving

dinner plans?
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/31926428/ns/today_food_and_wine-today_food_recipe/

i posted
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/31921390/ns/health-womens_health/
to fb
cristina wrote “how sad”
i never thought of sadness, only how stupid it was to have kids at 66

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09:10 am - gardening always surprises

moved some all too sprawling sweet potatoes and tomatillo vines back out of walkway this morning. surprised to see both rooting all along the vines, even into carpet i put down to suppress the weeds. i know where i want them to grow, i think i’m going to encourage this rooting with holes and compost. i missed this behavior in the main garden since it is so completely covered with weed cloth and carpet.

transplanted into main garden, surprised how nice the soil is, it’s been a year since i had anything growing there or watered it.

rats, had to spray green fruit beetles this morning, hate to use pesticides but there is simply too many of them. looks like grubs lived in composting weeds, huge increase in numbers over previous years. since they only eat over ripened fruit actually cause less fruit loss than birds. but getting hit in the face as they fly is really annoying.

applied for master gardener program.
i need to get out of the house.

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01:01 pm - Gary Dorrien

Regarding the relation of liberal and progressive, many religious thinkers employ these terms interchangeably. This usage has historical weight, because for many years liberalism was the progressive tradition in theology. The idea of a progressive Christianity was first imagined and developed by theological liberals. However, I believe that “progressive” should be treated as a wider category than “liberal” and that the fundamental divide in Christian theology is between various forms of conservative orthodoxy and progressivism. Progressive theology includes liberalism, neo-orthodoxy (including its Catholic forms), liberationism, and postmodernist theology. Conservative orthodoxy includes fundamentalism, conservative evangelicalism, and conservative confessionalism.

http://www.crosscurrents.org/dorrien200506.htm#
Gary Dorrien
i have some of his liberal set, i need to study them
confirms my idea of the major division…i probably got it from him and forgot where….

part of new atheists study
thinking about splitting off progressive-conservative “useful idiots” off into it’s own study.

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09:32 am - bill moyer’s journal

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/blog/2009/07/faith_justice_and_society.html

class mentioned
https://www.utsnyc.edu/Page.aspx?pid=1481

essay
http://www.crosscurrents.org/dorrien200506.htm

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10:40 am - dawkins fleas

== dawkins fleas ==

i read http://debunkingchristianity.blogspot.com/2009/06/my-first-flea.html

i had no idea what a flea was.

i found it is a common term at richarddawkins.net

and is beginning to be used on blogs and in secular discussion groups as well, being a descriptive and somewhat mean spirited, hence provocative term.

360 entries for compound term at google

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1C1CHMZ_enUS302US304&ei=SjgxSsi6HOCLtge45ODfBQ&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=”dawkins+fleas”&spell=1

afaik there is nothing else like it except generic terms like rebuttal.

the first use i found is:

http://richarddawkins.net/article,634,My-critics-are-wrong-to-call-me-dogmatic,Richard-Dawkins

Sir, Alister McGrath (Faith, Feb 10) has now published two books with my name in the title. If I seem “grumpy”, could it be because a professor of theology is building a career riding on my back? It is tempting to quote Yeats (”Was there ever dog that praised his fleas?”) and leave it at that. I will, however, dignify his article with a brief reply.

trying to get an entry at wiktionary

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rmwilliamsjr

time to read the instructions
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Tutorial

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11:12 am - tian an men

i loved being in china.

everything is new and stimulating. we followed smells in taipei, sat on the curb in beijing watching people, walked everywhere. anywhere i looked things asked deep questions about how to live especially questions about how to live with lots of other people.

america worships the cult of the self sufficient individual, china at the altar of the crowd. both are extremes, both are part not only of collective and historical human experience but of what it means to be a person, to be me.

the pressure of population on limited arable land, hierarchical power, confucian deference have shaped the chinese. the frontier, the priesthood of all believers, limited political power coupled with great private economic power have shaped america and americans.

but in each choices are made about the public square vs the private living room, the collective vs the individual, us vs them, the past vs the future *(ancestors v offspring)*.

my problem is that with limited zhong guo wa vocabulary the things i saw were essentially mute, i could never ask what does this thing->mean?,  what does this activity->mean to you?

it is the 20th anniversary of the tian an men square events. and i wonder what does it mean to live in a society where (as a person remarked in a hostel) “the walls have ears” and that great slider of human culture is pushed far to the collective side? it’s one thing being a tourist, another being a long term observer *(as a tesl)*, but an entirely different one being chinese.

i yearn to go back, especial kunming, chengdu, xian

i miss the stimulation of everything around being new and exciting.

tiananmen square

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10:47 am - cocomment

looks interesting

needs

technorati

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05:51 pm - word press blog stuff

convotrack apparently doesn’t work here

11:57 am - laptop battery life

it appears that if you are using your laptop with ac, especially for awhile, that you ought to remove the battery. charge it fully, then pop it out. use until battery about 10%, then recharge fully. note, there is a lot of conflicting info about how to extend battery life on the net, who is right, how to know?

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10:03 am - reading notes

flee, the huggers are coming
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/28/style/28hugs.html
i need a t-shirt that says: don’t hug me- i’m swedish

reserve:
True Enough
the big sort
The Bottom Billion
Faith, Reason and Revolution
at the library, i have $5.50 fine to pay before access is renewed.

kristof
The decline of traditional news media will accelerate the rise of The Daily Me, and we’ll be irritated less by what we read and find our wisdom confirmed more often. The danger is that this self-selected “news” acts as a narcotic, lulling us into a self-confident stupor through which we will perceive in blacks and whites a world that typically unfolds in grays.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/19/opinion/19kristof.html

his youtubes are at http://www.youtube.com/nicholaskristof

“Minds are very hard things to open, and the best way to open the mind is through the heart,” Professor Haidt says. “Our minds were not designed by evolution to discover the truth; they were designed to play social games.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/28/opinion/28kristof.html

something i’m learning from my brain study as well

in the long run demographics matters-the most
For the world’s wealthy nations, the 2020s are set to be a decade of hyperaging and population decline. Many countries will experience fiscal crisis, economic stagnation and ugly political battles over entitlements and immigration. Meanwhile, poor countries will be buffeted by their own demographic storms. Some will be overwhelmed by massive age waves that they can’t afford, while others will be whipsawed by new explosions of youth whose aspirations they cannot satisfy. The risk of social and political upheaval and military aggression will grow throughout the developing world — even as the developed world’s capacity to deal with these threats weakens.
…
Graying means paying — more for pensions, more for health care, more for nursing homes for the frail elderly. Yet the old-age benefit systems of most developed countries are already pushing the limits of fiscal and economic affordability. By the 2020s, political warfare over brutal benefit cuts seems unavoidable. On one side will be young adults who face declining after-tax earnings, including many who often have no choice but to live with their parents (and are known, pejoratively, as twixters in the United States, kippers in Britain, mammoni in Italy, nesthocker in Germany and freeters in Japan). On the other side will be retirees, who are often wholly dependent on pay-as-you-go public plans. In 2030, young people will have the future on their side. Elders will have the votes on theirs. Bold new investments in education, the environment or foreign assistance will be highly unlikely.
…
Consider China, which may be the first country to grow old before it grows rich. For the past quarter-century, China has been “peacefully rising,” thanks in part to a one-child policy that has allowed both parents to work and contribute to China’s boom. But by the 2020s, as the huge Red Guard generation born before the country’s fertility decline moves into retirement, they will tax the resources of their children and the state. China’s coming age wave — by 2030 it will be an older country than the United States — may weaken the two pillars of the current regime’s legitimacy: rapidly rising GDP and social stability. Imagine workforce growth slowing to zero while tens of millions of elders sink into indigence without pensions, without health care and without children to support them. China could careen toward social collapse — or, in reaction, toward an authoritarian clampdown.

from: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/02/AR2009010202231_pf.html

http://fish.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/empathy-and-the-law

the first half of our lives is ruined by our parents
the second by our kids.
—clarence darrow
only if we let them.
–robert gorem on law & order

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09:31 am - getting organized

life is a matter of getting priorities straight then getting them done.
for most of our lives we respond to other people’s pressures and find ourselves fulfilling their priorities often unaware even of our own.
life is much different now, after kids, without a job, occupied with inner thoughts and self motivations.
surprisingly without peer and external pressures it is harder to get things done, even though those things are mine.

gtd
priorities
1. lose weight
2. fix house
3. brain study

even with this things press in from elsewhere
the garden has it’s own priorities
i spend so much time online that this to is an issue-optimize online time

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09:27 pm - google reader

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11:34 am - just reading notes and interesting links

http://mashable.com/2007/07/19/wordpress-sproose-facebook-applications/

trying seesmic desktop
second adobe air app i’ve used
unusual opt into email list to get dl link
http://d.seesmic.com/seesmic/SeesmicDesktop-0.2.1.air

http://www.openleft.com/

http://sproose.com/welcome

memorial day
http://www.openleft.com/diary/13470/memorial-day-are-we-learning-yet
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/louis-bickford/memory-war-and-the-memory_b_205972.html

rasquache see: http://www.sacurrent.com/news/story.asp?id=70165

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07:42 am - the question concerning social technology

http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/05/the-question-concerning-social.html

quick study
follow links then testing how iterasi works
http://sqrl.it/?kkmfs

interesting links from this reading
http://www.opposableplanets.com/insight/2008/12/listening-beats-talking-four-principles-for-doing-business-in-the-network-economy/

“redistributing the future” - following interesting people, and passing on what I learn to others.
from: http://radar.oreilly.com/2008/11/why-i-like-twitter.html

This is not an isolated reading of history. Knowledge is almost always being produced in service of power - not as a liberating force from it and there is always a gap between what a society proclaims about it’s goals and aims - and the functional outcomes of its institutional policies and procedures (the “War on Drugs” being a quintessential modern example).

As with the enlightenment the tactics of control are shielded by a rhetoric of emancipation.

http://www.disambiguity.com/ambient-intimacy/
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/magazine/17credit-t.html?pagewanted=print

danger of facebook addiction

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09:52 am - interesting reading

google icons
http://www.google-logos.com/
today’s is 6th grade girls’s
she was on tv this morning

travel and creativity
http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13643981

books on mind podcast
talent code
The Wisdom Paradox
making up our minds

living abroad and creativity
http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2009/05/creativity_and_living_abroad.php
http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13643981
Merely travelling abroad, however, was not enough. You do have to live there. Packing your beach towel and suntan lotion will not, by itself, make you Hemingway.

8 Tips To Remember What You Read
http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/2009/05/14/8-tips-to-remember-what-you-read/
1. Read with a purpose.
2. Skim first.
3. Get the reading mechanics right.
4. Be judicious in highlighting and note taking.
5. Think in pictures.
6. Rehearse as you go along.
7. Stay within your attention span and work to increase that span.
8. Rehearse again soon.

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05:00 pm

need to read this carefully following up on new ideas, looks fruitful

Truthdig - The Disease of Permanent War

Posted using ShareThis

01:32 pm - google calendar

it’s working for me

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01:05 pm - reading

best i found this morning.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kerry-trueman/does-a-nation-of-ninnies_b_205282.html

posted most reading on google reader
with a few on facebook

found with search
http://www.thepoliticalcesspool.org/jamesedwards/tag/jerry-springer-show-moving-to-connecticut/#
poke around later

lots about the housing drop
http://www.wikio.com/info?id=106187204
http://www.newser.com/story/59463/housing-data-flatten-stocks.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hom
Stocks were flat at the open today, after a disappointing housing starts report. The Dow and Nasdaq inched down 11 and 4 points respectively, while the S&P was essentially flat. Futures had pointed to a higher open, until the Commerce Department announced a greater-than-expected 12.8% dip in housing starts for April. Home Depot, meanwhile, announced a 44% jump in profits, overcoming low sales to top analyst estimates. Bank stocks were slightly higher on news that many would repay government funds.

law and order started, time to get offline. i need to control it better.

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08:43 am - mother’s day memories

my mom would talk nostalgically about white carnations they would give to the mother’s at the lutheran church she grew up in. there was a sadness there i never really understood. i guess it was another story my folks never shared with us. she never talked about her relationship with her mom, it was apparently a bad one, when i contacted my aunt, mom was angry, just as she was when i contacted my grandfather. sad. those saunders genes again.

yesterday alma got 6 chocolate roses. in 100 degrees on a motorcycle just afternoon, it seemed like a useless opportunity for a mess. but she shared them at lunch with evie, justin and the two granddaughters.

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08:35 am - clikball

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10:15 am - add this

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08:38 am - glucosamine chondroitin capsules

i bought a case of finest nature glucosamine chondroitin capsules with salicate.
(smallest amount to get discount, need to sell 1/2)
180 per box, 500 mg per capsules glucosamine.
$55 at walgreen. expires 3-2011
all new in sealed bottle in sealed box
520-622-2549
text or voice mail
$2.50 per bottle shipping if you need it

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11:54 pm - Watch Lunch Hour Lectures online

Watch Lunch Hour Lectures online.

via neuro-philosophy blog

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10:19 am - toread email linker

07:33 pm - lijit

Lijit Search

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08:04 am - the heat is here

the ice breaks on the santa cruz river today

a local joke, it is a dry river bed, today will be the first day over 100 for the year
turnips and fava will die in the heat, no amount of expensive water will help them.
so i’m out to harvest them and water. mulch with dried weeds and hunker down until the summer rains begin in about a month.

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03:35 pm - tonal languages

this is the big hurdle in chinese

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=genetic-basis-tonal-language
http://thinkingmeat.com/newsblog/?p=794

cool, from _to build a person_ by pollack
http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2006/07/meat-thinks.html
he borrowed it.

via
http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=178252675150&h=SWIDs&u=IPnsJ&ref=nf

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03:09 pm - rites of passage

two things found on facebook cause me to think about these things.
jennifer announces her pregnancy and justin unchecks married and checks single.

we tried to make getting a library card into a big deal.
we saw the lack of clear rites of passage in our society as a problem.
even in the church, things like confirmation, first communion, which i experienced as a lutheran, don’t exist in lower church, more popular denominations.

how do we, how can we see the purposes these things fulfilled and try to build something to replace them?
part of the problem is the fragmentation of the culture. we belong to myriads of different groups, none of which but the state extends to anything like universality. nothing and no one speaks for very many people. rites of passage get their value from their universality, everyone knows unambiguously what they mean and how status has changed. a girl is a woman and is looking for a mate. a boy is a man and a warrior. etc.

we have driver’s license, prom, high school graduation, first sexual activity, first baby, marriage, college graduation, first job but nothing comes close to traditional rites of passage.
not in their strength as social cohesion mechanisms, in their emotionalness (dictionary says this is not a word, well “add to dictionary” will fix that)

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07:22 am - some late night tiddly reading

http://www.tiddlytools.com// <<<<<<<<<<< excellent site, attractive, useful well laid out
http://streamlinenews.wordpress.com/tag/tiddlywiki/
http://tiddlywiki.org/wiki/Plugin_Repositories
http://tiddlyvault.tiddlyspot.com/
http://tiddlywiki.bidix.info/

a continuing research project for me

http://softwareas.com/tiddlywiki-internals-1-of-3-architectural-concepts
http://softwareas.com/tiddlywiki-internals-2-of-3-list-of-javascript-files
http://softwareas.com/tiddlywiki-internals-3-of-3-key-javascript-classes-and-files

http://en.wordpress.com/tag/tiddlywiki/
http://en.wordpress.com/tag/tiddlyspot/
http://simonmcmanus.wordpress.com/2009/02/06/tiddlydocs-collaborating-on-large-documents/
http://bengillies.net/.a/recipes/blog/tiddlers/Running%20on%20TiddlyWeb,%20Part%20One
http://wiki.osmosoft.com/TiddlyDocs/

http://svn.tiddlywiki.org/Trunk/association/serversides/cctiddly/Trunk/README.txt
http://tiddlywiki.org/wiki/CcTiddly

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09:37 am - follow up on a mindmap

get organized

got this mindmap in the mail
http://www.mindmeister.com/19055588

1st i’m interested in mindmaps
2nd i like this twig: online learning places
so using some of the tools i want to learn
study this mindmap and document my pathway

open this edit wp window in a new firefox window
objective: keep number of tabs to 7 or less

open the mind map
save the leaves while opening them.
try: notefish
http://www.mindbites.com/ signed up

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09:09 am - how to get organized

on a daily basis:
open gmail in firefox, use the gtd addons
if i find something interesting open a new window, if worthwhile open a wp edit window and document process

today opening mindmap and cooperative/collaborative software windows
1- would like firefox window labels
2- save wp edits as drafts to avoid data loss

problem: bogging down firefox

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08:52 am - collaborative software

continuing project

started with phil henry to find software to run within the church
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dg9×2z32_3hq44×5

looking at konolive this week
http://www.konolive.com/index.php
i’d like to combine the GTD learning curve with this one
the gtd greasemonkey scripts add a real usefulness to email/gmail

worthwhile learning curve

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05:40 am - goodreads

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05:33 am - librarything

My Library at LibraryThing

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05:16 am - konolive

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08:50 pm - Cognitive Enhancement

i still don’t have a good way to read news and save interesting things

while reading the brain section of my bloglines reader:
http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2009/04/cognitive_enhancement_and_crea.php
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/04/27/090427fa_fact_talbot

2007 list of brain blogs
http://neurophilosophy.wordpress.com/2007/02/24/neuroscience-blogs/

“Cell migration is a key feature of nervous system development, and the mechanisms underlying these movements are well characterised. As a general rule, migrating cells rely on the combined activity of chemical signals to find their way. Thus, they set off on their migration because of a signal which repels them from their birth place and stay on track because their migratory pathway is flanked by a non-permissive signal which prevents them from deviating from the correct route. Finally, as they approach the end of their journey, attractive cues pull them in the right direction. Upon arriving at their destination, the cells begin to extend axons and dendrites, whose paths are guided by the same kinds of cues. “
http://scienceblogs.com/neurophilosophy/2009/04/new_cells_in_the_adult_brain_migrate_long_distances_by_crawling_along_blood_vessels.php

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11:01 am - behind in reading, spend a few hours this morning

rape kits, noticed several news articles on the issue
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/30/opinion/30kristof.html

grad student system doesn’t work
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/opinion/27taylor.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/01/technology/01filter.html?pagewanted=all
get around govt firewalls

““A few weeks ago, we discovered medical devices, MRI machines, infected with Conficker,” said Marcus Sachs, director of the Internet Storm Center, an early warning system for Internet threats that is operated by the SANS Institute”
http://www.physorg.com/news160331005.html

your whole profession life’s work for a footnote
http://www.physorg.com/news160385170.html

about diabetes
http://www.physorg.com/news160326333.html

“SIV has crossed over from chimpanzees and sooty mangabeys to humans at least eleven times, giving rise to several HIV lineages. Although HIV is a virulent pathogen in humans, SIV rarely causes disease in these species or the dozens of other African primate species it naturally infects. That these non-human primates typically remain unaffected after virus exposure has led to the hypothesis that there had been millions of years of coevolution between SIVs and their primate hosts.”
http://www.physorg.com/news160385953.html

african genetics
http://www.physorg.com/news160319662.html

using youtube
http://www.physorg.com/news160315376.html

new word–ait
http://www.physorg.com/news160295330.html

drop print, read online
http://www.physorg.com/news160276435.html

energy density of foods and income
http://www.physorg.com/news160376511.html

who cares?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/01/miss-californias-breast-i_n_194385.html

http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/Q85Z9BGaOVU/pirated-copies-of-windows-7-will-still-get-windows-updates

pastor luke e invited me to goodreads, put my librarything database up there
i really got to finish that

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08:33 am - online reading

i only have about an hour to read before leaving for church
jackie chan sure pushed buttons
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-04-26/why-many-chinese-dont-want-freedom/

interesting, need to find my way back here
http://www.legalaffairs.org/issues/January-February-2005/feature_labi_janfeb05.msp

food
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=civilization-food-shortages&print=true

http://www.noupe.com/wordpress/the-comprehensive-guide-for-a-powerful-cms-using-wordpress.html

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=jacking-into-the-brain&print=true

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07:56 am - early morning nytimes reading

The program is limited to the country’s Latin American guest workers, whose Japanese parents and grandparents emigrated to Brazil and neighboring countries a century ago to work on coffee plantations.

In 1990, Japan — facing a growing industrial labor shortage — started issuing thousands of special work visas to descendants of these emigrants. An estimated 366,000 Brazilians and Peruvians now live in Japan.

The guest workers quickly became the largest group of foreign blue-collar workers in an otherwise immigration-averse country, filling the so-called three-K jobs (kitsui, kitanai, kiken — hard, dirty and dangerous).
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/23/business/global/23immigrant.html

Unsurprisingly, the current mayor, Akio Fujimoto, flatly rejects the North Korean comparison. Rather, he and most other islanders call Hime a repository for traditional Japanese values, like economic egalitarianism and social harmony. They say the rest of the nation has lost these in an embrace of more competitive capitalism, especially under the prime ministership of Junichiro Koizumi from 2001-6.
“Our thinking is, ‘let’s all share the economic pie and get along, instead of giving all of it to the rich,’ ” said Mr. Fujimoto, whose father, Kumao Fujimoto, devised the work-sharing system in the 1960s. “Avoiding competition is the traditional Japanese way.”

Now, with the current crisis causing a national questioning of American-style laissez-faire economics, and business leaders and unions seeking alternatives to widespread job cuts, Hime’s work-sharing scheme is suddenly being held up as a new model. Islanders call it ironic that the current crisis has made traditional values appear progressive, even utopian.

Nor does the island’s penchant for equality stop at work-sharing. At an annual village ceremony to mark the coming of age of 20-year-old islanders, women are forbidden to wear traditional kimonos for fear the differences in quality could reveal their households’ economic status.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/22/world/asia/22japan.html

04:53 pm - organizing bookmarks

first, where are all my collections?

myhq was the first place i stored BM
http://www.myhq.com/public/r/w/rwilliam/
http://myhq.com/public/t/h/thinkcreation/
http://www.myhq.com/public/r/m/rmwilliamsjr/
http://www.myhq.com/public/h/i/historyamericanpresb/

then shopped around some more
http://delicious.com/rmwilliamsjr/?page=2
http://www.diigo.com/profile/rmwilliamsjr

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12:03 pm - quick reading notes

idea to keep in mind:is this the best thing i could be doing with my time?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/22/nyregion/22pirate.html
he’s smiling, he’s so young, there is no way he understands what is happening to him, i feel sorry for him, not angry

wow
I.M.F. Puts Losses From Crisis at $4.1 Trillion
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/22/business/global/22fund.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print

and now deflation worries
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/21/business/global/21deflate.htm

the importance of friends
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/21/health/21well.htm

i’d love to find other people reading and share the news.
i’ve found newsvine but little else

http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/
see the blogrolls, right side bottom

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/22/world/americas/22colombia.html?hp=&pagewanted=print
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/21/world/asia/21china.html?hpw=&pagewanted=print
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/21/technology/internet/21net.html?hpw=&pagewanted=print
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/21/opinion/21herbert.html?hpw=&pagewanted=print
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/18/arts/television/18boyle.html?em=&pagewanted=print
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/20/us/politics/20caucus.html?bl=&ei=5087&en=76c7243533d58780&ex=1240459200&pagewanted=print

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01:33 am - RL interaction

after church we met with alma’s cousin anne from bangor.

apparently, according to anne, this afternoon consists of real life interaction.

it’s ok, probably over rated !?

learned that there is a difference in how 15 year olds and 30 year olds use technology.

are generations being compressed due to speeding up due to electronic communication? something to look into.

jacob sent me his deviant art url. i’ll post it here with his permission.

my bloglines is at:  http://www.bloglines.com/public/rmwilliamsjr

anyone seen this?  c:\32788R22FWJFW

http://www.google.com/search?q=32788R22FWJFW&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rlz=1R1GGGL_en___US320&client=firefox-a

trouble??

gmail + gtd: good combination

gtdinbox for gmail with firefox, intuitive, responsible, motivating

http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/03/22/firefox-gmail-gtd/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3134

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06:49 am - pbs-bill moyers on david simon

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04172009/profile.html

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04172009/transcript1.html

depresses me, a lot

ordered dvd’s from library

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04:30 pm - just notes

i sold 1/2 the sweet potato slips. met a nice gardener who gave me several leads for gardener groups.

said the community food bank has interesting classes (odd they have such a valuable url)

mentioned the master gardener program as well and the place she works at.

watched pbs’ art makes us human. xx-ordered the book on ebay-xx borrowed from library 

following up on the program—on art and death

continuing the saga of organization:

learning how to use tags in wordpress, delicious and xmarks

i like google suggest function on google bookmarks

found:

second brain looks neglected

notefish which has a firefox extension

next action

monkey gtd twillywiki link to my copy at twiddlyspot, cool software

and insuggest

the tvswap meet turned away a package for augie misdirected by the dash mat co. 

you’d think after all the money he has paid in rent they would at least help out a little bit.

he lost 2 sales over it…..

saw this flyer at sunflower market

Tucson Local Currency (TLC) invites you to THE NEW ECONOMY Film and

Discussion Series.  Come watch these three inspiring documentaries and

discuss ways to create a local economic model with a positive global

impact.

Friday, April 17—The Corporation. Explores the nature and rise of the

dominant institution of our time.

i think we’ll go to it tonight.

i need to get out and meet people.

scott got the job at 

06:49 pm - how to judge a book(singer)

got taxes past the efile submit process
had to pay arizona, again.
should have used taxhawk. would have saved $16.95

perfect example of why you ought not to judge a book by it’s cover
http://tinyurl.com/cfk7la
susan boyle, singer

gobsmacked……
News results for susan boyle
amazing. 6 million hits on her youtube 7 mins. of fame
shows what the media is capable of doing. as well has how people can react to it.
she’s on cnn, now access hollywood, like a paper said. her life will never be the same.

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03:32 pm - expelled: no intelligence allowed

watching:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expelled

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=17246469

best part is the animation of the cell

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inner_Life_of_the_Cell

see it at:

http://aimediaserver.com/studiodaily/videoplayer/?src=harvard/harvard.swf&width=640&height=520

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12:16 pm - some online reading notes

older workers need not apply

http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/older-workers-need-not-apply/

why do old men chase younger women

http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/old-men-chasing-young-women-good-thing-14203.html

what to do when you lose your job

http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/05/what-to-do-when-you-lose-your-job/

backup livejournal entries

http://www.custompc.co.uk/news/605367/updated-livejournal-announces-mass-layoffs.html

http://news.cnet.com/Mass-deletion-sparks-LiveJournal-revolt/2100-1025_3-6187619.html

epistemology

http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/papers/seebelie.htm

from phil henry via facebook

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/13/opinion/13krugman.html?src=tp

things to do

understand tags and categories, start with technorati, look into clouds then incorporate what found into wordpress here

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