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I'm not one for stories and screeds
about how many people live in Asia and how we better get
ready.
But this one is sticking in my head and won't leave:
There are fifty five million Chinese kids that take piano lessons.
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| r. buckminster fuller: " EITHER MAN IS OBSOLETE OR WAR IS. WAR IS THE ULTIMATE TOOL OF POLITICS. POLITICAL LEADERS LOOK OUT ONLY FOR THEIR OWN SIDE. POLITICIANS ARE ALWAYS REALISTICALLY MANEUVERING FOR THE NEXT ELECTION. THEY ARE OBSOLETE AS FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM-SOLVERS. HALF-CENTURY OF SUBCONSCIOUSLY DEVELOPING WORLD REVOLUTION IS CROSSING THRESHOLD INTO HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS AND ULTIMATE POPULAR SUPPORT. TODAY'S STUDENTS, REARED BY TELEVISION, "THE THIRD PARENT," THINK WORLD. THEY THINK DEMAND JUSTICE FOR ALL HUMANITY, WITH NO EXCEPTIONS. THEIRS WILL BE THE MOST POWERFUL CONSTRUCTIVE REVOLUTION IN HISTORY. EARTH IS A VERY SMALL SPACE SHIP. WE ARE ALL ASTRONAUTS. EACH HUMAN IS A WHOLE UNIVERSE. WE HAVE 28,000 POUNDS OF EXPLOSIVES FOR EACH HUMAN BEING ON EARTH. WEAPONRY HAS ALWAYS BEEN ACCORDED PRIORITY OVER LIVINGRY. ONLY TWO ALTERNATIVES -- UTOPIA OR OBLIVION. ALL THE FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEMS ARE WORLD PROBLEMS. MAN KNOWS SO MUCH DOES SO LITTLE. GREATEST FACT OF CENTURY: WE CAN MAKE LIFE ON EARTH GENERAL SUCCESS FOR ALL PEOPLE. WORLD'S PRIME VITAL PROBLEM: HOW TO TRIPLE SWIFTLY SAFELY SATISFYINGLY OVERALL PERFORMANCE REALIZATIONS PER POUNDS KILO1234567890123456789012345678901234567890THOSE RESOURCES CAPABLE OF SUPPORTING ONE HUNDRED PER CENT OF HUMANITY'S INCREASING POPULATION AT EVER HIGHER STANDARDS OF LIVING THAN ANY HUMAN MINORITY SINGLE INDIVIDUAL HAS KNOWN OR DREAMED OF. WAR OVER POPULATION HUNGER DISEASE WOULD CEASE TO EXIST IF HAVES DEVOTED LARGER SHARE OF THEIR INDUSTRIAL BUDGET TO WORLD LIVINGRY. MALTHUS IS WRONG. THERE IS ENOUGH TO GO AROUND. BASIC YOU-OR-ME-NOT-ENOUGH-FOR-BOTH-ERGO-SOMEONE-MUST-DIE TENETS OF CLASS WARFARING ARE EXTINCT. REAL WEALTH -- INDESTRUCTIBLE, WITHOUT PRACTICAL LIMIT -- IS COMBINATION OF PHYSICAL ENERGY AND HUMAN INTELLECT. EVERY TIME WE USE REAL WEALTH IT INCREASES. INTELLECT MUST INCREASE WEALTH TO ELIMINATE POVERTY. DESIGN SCIENCE, INVENTION REVOLUTION COULD ELEVATE POVERTY TO HAVENESS. (IF YOU CAN PRODUCE IT, YOU CAN AFFORD IT. IF YOU CAN'T PRODUCE IT, YOU CAN'T AFFORD IT.) INTELLIGENCE SHOULD BE RECOGNIZED AS A GLOBAL RESOURCE. BRAIN STORES RETRIEVES SPECIAL CASE EXPERIENCES. MIND DISCOVERS GENERALIZED PATTERNS APPARENTLY GOVERNING ALL SPECIAL CASE EXPERIENCES. THINKING IS THE CONSCIOUSLY DISCIPLINED SEPARATION OF RELEVANT FEEDBACK FROM IRRELEVANT FEEDBACK. GREATEST SINGLE REVOLUTION IN HUMAN AFFAIRS HAS BEEN ASCENDANCY OF INTELLECT'S INTUITIVE MASTERY OVER THE PHYSICAL BUT ALL THE IMPORTANT CRITICAL EVENTS REALIZING THAT REVOLUTION JUST HAPPENS. ONLY THE IMPOSSIBLE HAPPENS. PROBABILITY UNRELIABLE. TO EACH OF US ENVIRONMENT IS EVERYTHING THAT ISN'T ME. NEW, PHYSICALLY UNCOMPROMISED METAPHYSICAL INITIATIVE OF UNBIASED INTEGR1234567890123456789012345678901234567890ABLY WILL BE PROVIDED BY THE UTTERLY IMPERSONAL PROBLEM SOLUTIONS OF MAN'S ANTIBODY, THE COMPUTER. ONLY TO THE COMPUTER'S SUPERHUMAN RANGE OF CALCULATIVE CAPABILITIES CAN AND MAY ALL POLITICAL SCIENTIFIC RELIGIOUS LEADERS FACE-SAVINGLY ACQUIESCE. EVOLUTION IS APPARENTLY INTENT THAT MAN FULFILL A MUCH GREATER DESTINY THAN THAT OF BEING SIMPLE MUSCLE AND REFLE1234567890123456789012345678901234567890CHINA MAY BE MOST IMPRESSIVELY MODERN NATION, HIGHLY AUTOMATED.) AUTOMATION CAN PRODUCE WEALTH BEYOND ALL OUR NEEDS AND DREAMS. (WE'VE ALWAYS HAD AUTOMATION. WHAT'S HAPPENING TO YOUR LUNCH?) AUTOMATION HAS MADE MAN OBSOLETE AS PHYSICAL PRODUCTION AND CONTROL SPECIALIST -- JUST IN TIME. SPECIALIZATION IS ONLY A FANCY FORM OF SLAVERY WHEREIN THE "EXPERT" IS FOOLED INTO ACCEPTING HIS SLAVERY BY MAKING HIM FEEL THAT IN RETURN HE IS IN A SOCIALLY CULTURALLY PREFERRED, ERGO, HIGHLY-SECURE, LIFE-LONG POSITION. NATURE ALWAYS DOES THINGS IN SIMPLEST MOST EFFICIENT WAY. ALL NATURE IS BASED ON THE TRIANGLE AND THE TETRAHEDRON WHICH IS CONSTRUCTED OF TRIANGLES. NATURE DOESN'T HAVE SEPARATE DEPARTMENTS OF PHYSICS, CHEMISTRY, BIOLOGY, MATHEMATICS. WORLD SOCIETY IS OPERATING ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY IN INAUDIBLE NONVISIBLE AREA OF PHYSICAL UNIVERSE. WE ARE LIVING IN A WORLD WHERE CHANGE IS NORMAL. BECAUSE PRIME EVOLUTIONARY TRANSFORMATIONS ARE INVISIBLE, IT IS APPROXIMATELY IMPOSSIBLE FOR WORLD SOCIETY TO COMPREHEND THAT CHANGES IN NEXT 30 YEARS WILL BE FAR GREATER THAN IN LAST 100 YEARS. ARTISTS ARE NOW BEING RECOGNIZED AS EXTRAORDINARILY IMPORTANT TO HUMAN SOCIETY. SCIENTISTS ARE UTTERLY IRRESPONSIBLE REGARDING PRO-VS-ANTISOCIAL DISPOSITION OF "EGGS" THEY LAY IN THE LABORATORIES. EVERY CHILD IS BORN A GENIUS: NINETY-NINE PERCENT ARE DEGENIUSED BY EARLY POST-NATAL CIRCUMSTANCES. HUMAN BEING HAS GREAT POTENTIALITY, BUT MANY WIRES GET DISCONNECTED. AGES 0 TO 4 ARE BIGGEST "SCHOOL" OPPORTUNITY. CHILD IS TR1234567890123456789012345678901234567890IS SCHOOLROOM AND CLOSELY-PACKED DESK PRISONS. REAL SCHOOLHOUSE IS IN THE HOME AND OUTDOORS. WITHIN 10 YEARS ANYTHING REASONABLY THINK-UPABLE BY SCIENCE FICTION WILL PROBABLY HAVE BEEN REALIZED. POSSESSION IS BECOMING PROGRESSIVELY BURDENSOME, WASTEFUL, OBSOLETE, TOTAL MAN MAY BE GOING THROUGH A TOTAL WAVE OF TRANSFORMATION INTO AN ENTIRELY NEW RELATIONSHIP WITH THE UNIVERSE. MAN FREED OF SPECIAL CASE SUPERSTITION BY INTELLECT HAS HAD SURVIVAL POTENTIALS MULTIPLIED MILLIONS FOLD. HUMANS CAN NOW WHISPER EFFORTLESSLY IN ONE ANOTHER'S EAR FROM ANYWHERE AROUND THE WORLD. (BE SURE TO ENTERTAIN ALL YOUR EMOTIONS.) INTELLECTUAL INTEGRITY WILL WIN TOMORROW'S BATTLES ACCELERATING INEXORABILITY. POLITICAL COMMERCIAL SHAM FALSE PREMISE INSTITUTIONS WILL VANISH WITH STARTLING RAPIDITY. MAN, AS DESIGNED, IS OBVIOUSLY INTENDED TO BE A SUCCESS. SUCCESS: NOT A BAD THING TO HAVE HANGING OVER YOUR HEAD. EXPERIMENT IS ALWAYS VALUABLE. YOU CAN'T LEARN LESS. YOU CAN ALWAYS GET NEARER TO THE TRUTH. (LANGUAGE CAN BE A BLOCK TO REALITY.) COPING WITH THE TOTALITY OF SPACESHIP EARTH AND UNIVERSE IS AHEAD FOR ALL OF US. (MAN WAS DESIGNED WITH LEGS -- r. buckminster fuller - i seem to be a verb |
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Tools & Treasures: Great gifts made from motherboards! site for free agents – great info, but no longer updated
War On String May Be Unwinnable, Says Cat General
The last page of the Internet. If you can ask the question, Wikipedia has the answer. Want something different? Try a random Wikipedia Page!
The SMOKING GUN Google Search Engine!
Eight Dangerous Hyperlinks for Hardcore Geeks:
Making even the dumbest
sh** interesting! http://www.linkswarm.com/ - interesting links reported by users Office pranks on the increase - Images
high-resolution SF art
interesting links reported & rated by doodz
The estimated
population of the United States is 296,301,740 The gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies
what’s happening on the web right now – what news blogs are talking about, what books blogs are talking about, top 100 blogs shirky -Some interesting info here about why some web pages become wildly popular, and others, that seem just as good, get lost in the shuffle. "Diversity plus freedom of choice creates inequality, and the greater the diversity, the more extreme the inequality." So you say you want a special keychain? Competitive Intelligence - Get Smart! - Thanks to the Web, you can learn more about the competition faster than ever. Fast Company's panel of experts provides a six-point program for keeping an eye on your rivals. Now, where's Agent 99? XP Tweaks - 4 geek pages of Windows XP Tweaks for ADVANCED USERS – geek-wanabees line up here number of f-words - HBO's series Deadwood had a reputation for salty dialogue even before the first episode aired. It was nearly impossible, they said, to keep count of the number of f-words spoken during each program. We took it as a challenge. Help!!! - help & support for Microsoft XP Jen Wiggle - Beatchik - She absolutely hates my writing, so she must be doing something right! think - Design, branding and marketing wisdom from the folks at Personality. Blogger - So you say you want to start your own Blog? girl meets dog - High Maintenance Bitch (fetching new fashions for girl's best friend) best - best places to work in the federal gov sunset - java fractal eye candy
windows - Windows XP home page The Skeptical Business Searcher by Robert Berkman is an excellent guide to sorting out the wheat from the chaff of business information. And while the primary emphasis is on business research, the lessons offered are applicable to any type of online searching. search watch blog - refdesk for blogs live - cool science site cloud - try this art site with IE mental - mental health directory kat - (awesome wallpapers – huge The Windows Catalog is a collection of hardware and software products that have been determined to work with Windows XP. members - wallpaper index banknotes - pictures of money ranking Since 1998, Ranking.com has performed market research upon a statistically, geographically and demographically significant number of Internet surfers. By recording these surfers' website visits, Ranking.com calculates the ranking for the top 900,000 (growing every month) most visited websites and provides these results to surfers absolutely FREE for all its services! math - Famous mathematician pictures, mathematicians pictures, mathematician gift items, note cards, posters, prints, clocks, T shirts and sweatshirts, Pythagoras, Archimedes, Zeno of Elea, Euclid, Eukleides, Rene Descartes, Pierre Fermat, Blaise Pascal, Sir Isaac Newton, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Leibnitz, Leonhard Euler, Leonard Euler, Joseph Louis Lagrange, Pierre Simon Laplace, Gauss, Ada Byron Lady Lovelace, Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann, Georg Cantor Somebody doesn’t like Prez Bush! zen stories - cool & thought-provoking
Noah couldn't tell Howard Hughes: "No, you can't store your piss in little glass bottles!"
Phil couldn't tell John Lennon: "No, we don't need more reverb, and besides, the song sucks!"
But you can tell me.
harv griffin
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8/1/2005 5:02:00 AM Drudge (frivolous entertainment), Google (“Just the facts, Ma’am!”), and
Wired (All Tech, All The Time).
the invading army aren’t breaking my door down either.
hg47
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20 RULES FOR GOOD
WRITING
1. Each pronoun
agrees with their antecedent.
As soon as one professional writer writes a HOW
TO book, another comes out with two HOW TO books that contradict the
first while contradicting themselves.
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P.S. - Happy Fourth Of July!
6/23/2005 1:14:08 PM
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6/15/2005 9:53:31 AM
I speed up.
You’re reading on-line right now with a mouse in
your hand. It feels kinda like you’re channel-surfing a TV with a remote
in your hand, doesn’t it? That’s what “normal” readers now want—the
reading thrill of channel-surfing! hg47 Jon Davis: “What do you think about men who take VIAGRA?”
Jill Scott: “Go for it.
I take Viagra. It
totally works for women. It gets me very turned on. I think Viagra is a
recreational sex toy.”
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“Instead of thinking of your website as a store—a place where
potential customers wander in and realize they can’t live without
your services—think of it as a digital brochure, that can be handed
out to prospects instantly across great distances. It’s a
leave-behind that can include audio as well as text and pictures.
But, as with any brochure, nobody will see it unless you hand it to
them personally.
1. Please understand that book publishing is an organized hobby,
not a business. On the other hand, a book gives you leverage to spread an idea and a brand far and wide. There's a worldview that's quite common that says that people who write books know what they are talking about and that a book confers some sort of authority.
2. The timeframe for the launch of books has gone from silly to
unrealistic.
3. There is no such thing as effective book promotion by a book
publisher. If you don't promote it, no one will. If you don't have a better strategy than, "Let's get on Oprah" you should stop now. If you don't have an asset already--a permission base of thousands or tens of thousands of people, a popular blog, thousands of employees, a personal relationship with Willard Scott... then it's too late to start building that asset once you start working on a book. By the way, blurbs don't sell books. Not really. You can get all the blurbs in the world for your book and it won't help if you haven't done everything else (quick aside: the guy who invented the word "blurb" also wrote the poem Purple Cow).
4. Books cost money and require the user to read them for the
idea to spread.
5. Publishing is like venture capital, not like printing. What Random House and others do is invest. They invest cash in an advance. They invest time in creating the book itself and selling it in and they invest more cash in printing books. Like all VCs, they want a big return. If you need the advance to live on, then publishers serve an essential function. If, on the other hand, you're like most non-fiction authors and spreading the idea is worth more than the advance, you may not. So, what's my best advice? Build an asset. Large numbers of influential people who read your blog or read your emails or watch your TV show or love your restaurant or or or... Then, put your idea into a format where it will spread fast. That could be an ebook (a free one) or a pamphlet (a cheap one--the Joy of Jello sold millions and millions of copies at a dollar or less). Then, if your idea catches on, you can sell the souvenir edition. The book. The thing people keep on their shelf or lend out or get from the library. Books are wonderful (I own too many!) but they're not necessarily the best vessel for spreading your idea. And the punchline, of course, is that if you do all these things, you won't need a publisher. And that's exactly when a publisher will want you! That's the sort of author publishers do the best with.
Kevin Kelly: "I was visiting some Amish
farmers recently. They fit the archetype perfectly: straw hats,
scraggly beards, wives with bonnets, no electricity, no phones or
TVs, horse and buggy outside. They have an undeserved reputation for
resisting all technology, when actually they are just very late
adopters. Still, I was amazed to hear them mention their Web sites."
I called up the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms and asked them, "What kind of bourbon goes with an M-16?" --John Mendoza
7 Money Mantras for a Richer Life
by Michelle Singletary
At last, a way to end squabbles over which
TV channel to watch -- without buying a second set. Sharp has
developed a liquid-crystal display that shows totally different
images to people viewing the screen from the left and the right.
One person can be surfing the internet, using the display as a PC screen, while another watches a downloaded movie or TV broadcast. It also works for watching two TV channels. The "two-way viewing-angle LCD" will go into mass production this month and will cost roughly twice as much as a standard display. Sharp will offer the product for worldwide sale, but the company will also supply other manufacturers with the displays for various products expected later this year.
Safety First! “A Few Harmless Flakes Working Together Can Unleash An Avalanche Of Destruction.” THINK GEEK “More than twenty years...That's how long it took after the invention of basketball for someone to realize that they should cut a hole in the bottom of the peach baskets. Before that, you had to stop the game and get a ladder and get the ball out of the basket.” -- Seth Godin “So, the #1 cause of death among teenagers in the developed world is the car.” -- Seth Godin
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FAR OUT!
8/3/2005
Shrink say: The Love of Ideas and Words and Thought is just a disappointed substitute Love for Power and Things and Toys. Harvey say: Sub-Love, Baby!
Wanna reach people? Give them a Myth. They don't dig the old ones, But boy do they glom onto the New Ones!
Great Things are never accomplished by dudes hung up on the precise definition of words (Laws) or the exact requirements of conscience.
Final victory seems to always belong to the side that writes the dispatches.
Q: Now, what exactly is a Myth? A: A fresh INTERPRETATION of our Common Experience.
L1 - Ladies Love Outlaws. It's in their programming. So spice up your act. Outlaws are guys who get away with shit, other guys don't get away with. The more shit you can get away with, the more foxes will throw themselves at you!
7/31/2005
"Top executives score even higher than college professors and lawyers on word meanings."
When he went into battle, Caesar slapped away the horses to cut off lines of retreat. When he faced overwhelming odds, Cortez sank his ships.
L5 - Half the battle is just to attract the favorable attention of superiors.
"All sensitive spirits are particularly susceptible to curiosity and preconceptions, so they no longer concentrate on the actual flavor of things. The soul, enamored in advance, goes out to meet these things and before it can be touched by their flavor in its natural essence, it bestows on them from afar that imaginary sweetness whose source it carries within itself and so, in partaking of them, it experiences things according to what it has made of them rather than for what they actually are: and partaking of itself through these appearances it believes that it is actually partaking of them."
Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length are free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
L6 - You are only as powerful as what you can do for other people.
"Power is becoming an acceptable environmental service." McLUHAN
7/27/2005
I ain't much good at positive habits. I'm much better at negative compulsions that drive me in the right direction.
"As for the viability of vicinals, when invisible they're invincible."
Metaphysical modes of escape exist which can turn any hell into a bearable situation.
L2: Prayer is a weapon that you cannot afford to be without. Therefore, there is a God.
"Through the Looking Glass with Many Happy Returns."
"In America, you watch TV and think that's totally unreal. Then, you step outside, and it's just the same." Joan Armatrading
A lover is Hallucinogenic!
WE TRY ANYTHING ONCE
YOUR LIFE IS OUR JOB
IF IT'S NEW, WE DO IT. IF IT'S OLD, WE DO IT BETTER. IF IT HASN'T BEEN DONE YET, WE'RE WORKING ON IT!
JUST REMEMBER THAT WE TOLD YOU SO
HAPPINESS CAN'T BUY MONEY
"Evolution is Adapting to Exploration."
The truth is the most powerful weapon in the universe.
If it's new, we do it. If it's old, we do it better. If it hasn't been done yet--don't blame us if it breaks down!
L4: All rich men believe that working is a better escape from the pressures of reality than TV. Just be aware that there are enormous satisfactions that can be had by working on a project that is changing your life for the better. Instead of watching a hero, why not be a hero?
"Ontogeny replays phylogeny." Ernst Haeckel
"Mimesis is the process by which all men learn." Aristotle, POETICS
7/23/2005
Software!
Processes!
Roles!
Ads supply the corporate meaning for the experience of the private owner.
The people who pay attention to the advertisements are typically those who already own the product.
F2-Generation: "What would a person have to do if they wanted to get to know you better?"
USEFUL EXAGGERATION: A product is like a religion. It has to promise Salvation. A business is like a Savior.
"As a snowdrift is formed where there is a lull in the wind, where there is a lull in the Truth, an Institution springs up. But the Truth blows over it, nevertheless, and at length blows it down."
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If I open up my life just a teeny bit at a time - and make sure I never slide back into closure - in time I'll be completely open. From introvert to extrovert by one "chess move" at a time.
7-21-2005
CULTURE IS OUR BUSINESS WAR EQUALS EDUCATION Violence is the Quest for Identity THE CENTURY'S ONE GREAT ART FORM: ADVERTISING (McLuhan)
I do believe in equality, but I also believe in distance. (Bob Dylan)
Living in New York is like coming all the time. (Gene Simmons, Kiss)
"Thanks largely to the Beatles, rock stardom eclipsed running for President as the ultimate glamorous ambition of much of American youth."
"The Beatles' hair generated far more attention and controversy even than their noise, and everyone instantly had an opinion of it, one way or another."
We interpret reality according to the meanings media has given to us.
"People are more impressed by the depth of your conviction than by the height of your logic."
"SHOCK, EXCITE, CAPTURE THE ATTENTION, AVOID POSING PROBLEMS."
Do people behave according to what they comprehend?
And yet, if we only see what is behind our eyes . . . if the only tool you have is a hammer, you see every problem as a nail.
The making of news has replaced reporting.
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7/19/2005 8:18:46 AM 1) Pep Boys trip for Aromatherapy sprays 2) OK, here’s the drill. A studio-artist musician can’t make it in the music biz without a live act. A writer can’t make it in the publishing biz without a live act—public speaking, name in the news, whatever. 3) Re-think the X-rated “notebook” website 4) Try replacing the black ink cartridge on my Epson printer 5) When I get my SF novel published, change my writer’s name. 42N8 F8 by hg47 + 7/18/2005 3:54:52 AM 1) Area 47: a) Papers on floor organized into separate stacks & put away into literature shelves and/or kitchen cabinets b) I can put one of Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies on my Front Title Section——a new one everyday! 2) More Target underwear 3) More Hanes socks from Target 4) Brush Teeth!
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