Posted in science & technology, tagged Science on February 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Feeling our way to decision
Emotions don’t impede rational thought, they underpin it, writes Jonah Lehrer in today’s Sydney Morning Herald.
Elliot had a small tumour cut from his cortex near the brain’s frontal lobe. He had been a model father and husband, holding down an important management job in a large corporation and was active [...]
Posted in civilisation?, society, tagged photography, racism, violence on February 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The USA has a new president but an old problem – and nothing typifies it like today’s Ku Klux Klan. The photographer Anthony Karen gained unprecedented access to the ‘Invisible Empire’
Leonard Doyle, The Independent
These images show members of the Ku Klux Klan as they want to be seen, scary and secretive and waiting in the [...]
Posted in Environment, science & technology, tagged cars, sustainability, technology on February 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Good to see that the electric car push is gaining momentum. Governments in Israel, Britain, California, Hawaii and many other places have made a commitment to invest in infrastructure for electric cars (see links below); now Renault has declared its full commitment to the technology – as Autoblog Green reports:
“While it’s sister company, Nissan, [...]
Posted in creativity, tagged photography, street-art on February 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This site claims to have the world’s best photos of Melbourne’s street art, and given that it probably is the only site of its kind this claim might be hard to dispute. Nevertheless: the quantity of photos and quality of street art presented are indeed absolutely tops. If you like street art, go and visit [...]
Posted in Environment, tagged global-warming on February 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
China certainly follows our failed Western model … more cars, less public transport, more environmental damage …
The total number of cars for civilian use in China rose 24.5% in 2008 from 2007 to 24.38 million, according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics of China. Private-owned cars numbered 19.47 million, representing a 28.0% increase [...]
Posted in society, tagged politics on February 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
By F. William Engdahl
Global Research, February 26, 2009
Despite the problems of the ruble and the weak oil price in recent months for the Russian economy, the Russian Government is pursuing a very active foreign policy strategy. Its elements focus on countering the continuing NATO encirclement policy of Washington, with often clever diplomatic initiatives on [...]
Posted in creativity, tagged photography on February 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Of course, that’s not all, but it’s something I wouldn’t have thought of. Reflecting on it now though I have to say that Angus Kidman makes a good point in his Lifehacker post (below). No wonder my photos turn out to be so mediocre … .
Photography is a visual medium, but that doesn’t [...]
Posted in creativity, tagged street-art on February 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My mate Harry sent me a link a couple of days ago to Edgar Mueller’s 3D pavement art (or sidewalk art, chalk art or street painting). It’s street art, and even though from my perspective it doesn’t have the rawness and depth of meaning of graffiti art that I like so much, it nevertheless is [...]
Posted in Environment, tagged global-warming, politics on February 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Never trust politicians. The Rudd government’s carbon emission trading scheme is just another example. There are many argument’s that can be made against such schemes in general, like that they have never worked overseas (in Europe for example), they have never reduced carbon emissions, they benefitted the big polluters, despite their ineffectiveness they led to [...]
Posted in creativity, reflections, tagged architecture on February 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In this architectural scenario an oil tanker is raised like an obelisk into a pit. The carcass is than outfitted for whatever use its inhabitants see fit.
I find this image very appealing because of the symbolism of it colours and the graphical construction of its elements, ranging from order to mild chaos. And while it [...]
Posted in reflections, tagged reflections, spirituality on February 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Spiritual teachers and sages throughout the ages have always talked about true knowing as being one with all existence and experiencing that oneness through being present in the moment through full awareness. Brian Swimme in this video clip looks at the same phenomena from an astrophysicist’s and cosmologist’s point of view: [...]
Posted in humour, tagged humour on February 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Quite hilarious: comedian Anita Renfroe’s estrogen flavoured, sassy Momsense song, performed to the tune of Overture to William Tell and paraphrasing everything a mother says in one 24-hour period. It’s the YouTube viral video that’s been around for a while (since 2007 it seems) and that’s gotten over 9 Million [...]
Posted in science & technology, tagged cars, sustainability, technology on February 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
World Debut at the 79th Geneva Motor Show, March 5th through 15th, 2009
Swiss Automobile Visionary Frank M. Rinderknecht Builds a Concept Car with Adaptive Energy Concept
„iChange“ Alters its Shape – and Automotive Thinking
The Swiss auto powerhouse Rinspeed presents the ‘iChange’, the world’s first car whose body adapts to the number of passengers on board. In seconds [...]
Posted in civilisation?, reflections, society, tagged culture, ethics, human-rights, reflections, state-sponsored-terrorism, The-Empire-(of America), violence, warfare-conflict on February 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Politicians in general are pretenders and liars and they are obsessed with power and themselves. They also are part of and in support of a nation’s elite and, partly as a consequence, they are ideologues. They don’t necessarily stand for what a country’s people need or want but for what they and the power elite [...]
Posted in creativity, tagged architecture on February 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It seems as though a wooden boat washed up on shore amidst a neighborhood of typical Aussie beach houses just south of Melbourne on the Mornington Peninsula. From the street the house’s irregular form reveals nothing of what unfolds once within the property. At a closer look, the façade consists solely of a mailbox. According [...]
Posted in science & technology, tagged internet, software, technology on February 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The guy who developed Quicksilver search for the Mac also came up with Google Quick Search Box, which is available now – BUT: only through Google Toolbar 6 and only on Internet Explorer – both bad choices. If you are into quick application access in Windows through a search box, download or stick with Launchy [...]
Posted in science & technology, tagged internet, software, technology on February 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’ve never been a big fan of Safari, so far probably the most inferior browser in the market place. I do run it sometimes on my Macbook Air though because Firefox at occasions really heats up the processor, making my fan run overtime. For that reason alone I did install this beta version as a [...]
Posted in science & technology, tagged internet, software, technology on February 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Lifehacker had a post today on a great little program called Ginipic. It searches for images across the net as well as local folders, which makes finding an image for a blog post a breeze. After entering your search term, Ginipic combs its sources including Flickr, Google Images, Picasa, LiveSearch, Yahoo!, SmugMug, Photobucket, deviantART, Stockexpert, [...]
Posted in civilisation?, science & technology, society, tagged Science, technology, The-Empire-(of America), violence, warfare-conflict on February 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The U.S. Army has suspended research with deadly agents and toxins at the military’s top germ warfare lab, which came under intense scrutiny after the FBI identified it as the source of the anthrax used in the 2001 “Amerithrax” attacks that killed five, injured 17 and kept the nation on knife-edge for weeks.
The suspension, announced [...]
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