"There is change, and departure: but there is also help when least looked for from the strangers of the day, and hiding, out among the accidents of this drifting Humility, never quite to be extinguished, a few small chances for mercy."
Friday, 29 May 2015
Today's stuff is coming off Global Sampler #10 on the Global Groove site. That blog is beyond. Do the right thing.
" The almost final words of the British novelist, Roald Dahl, were
“You know, I’m not frightened. It’s just that I will miss you all so
much” to his family. After appearing to fall unconscious the nurse then
injected him with morphine to ease his passing and he said his actual
last words: “Ow, fuck!” "
Thursday, 28 May 2015
Wednesday, 27 May 2015
Sunday, 24 May 2015
Saturday, 23 May 2015
Friday, 22 May 2015
Thursday, 21 May 2015
Yes yes
The world is so full of surprises:
"The drummer pounds gamely to the call of a different muse, as if she had to guess which song they were playing - and missed every time."- Debra Rae Cohen in Rolling Stone.
Wednesday, 20 May 2015
Monday, 18 May 2015
Open Source Desalination
Desalinate the rising sea levels, and make the technology to do so open source.
http://www.phibetaiota.net/2015/05/robert-steele-reflections-on-desalination/#more-111596
http://www.phibetaiota.net/2015/05/robert-steele-reflections-on-desalination/#more-111596
Friday, 15 May 2015
Monday, 11 May 2015
"Even pacifist agitation or the nation-wide fever of big sports
competitions acts as a spur to war fever in circumstances like ours.
Any kind of excitement or emotion contributes to the possibility of dangerous explosions when the feelings of huge populations are kept inflamed even in peacetime for the sake of the advancement of commerce.
Headlines mean street sales.
It takes emotion to move merchandise.
And wars and rumors of wars are the merchandise and also the emotion of the popular press."- Marshall McLuhan
Any kind of excitement or emotion contributes to the possibility of dangerous explosions when the feelings of huge populations are kept inflamed even in peacetime for the sake of the advancement of commerce.
Headlines mean street sales.
It takes emotion to move merchandise.
And wars and rumors of wars are the merchandise and also the emotion of the popular press."- Marshall McLuhan
Friday, 8 May 2015
Tuesday, 5 May 2015
Monday, 4 May 2015
Sunday, 3 May 2015
Saturday, 2 May 2015
Kowloon Quantum Processor
Kowloon Walled City in 1987. 33,000 people in 210 by 210 metres. Most densely populated place on earth at the time. (Macau now the densest.)
Good documentary about KWC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lby9P3ms11w
Friday, 1 May 2015
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