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March 2008

Robert de Niro in Righteous Kill (watch trailer): “Nothing wrong with a lil shooting, as long as the right people get shot”.

Agree? Buy a gun.
Don't agree? Get shot.

Race and gender are an issue in the democratic race for nomination between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. After 200.000 years or so that we are around on this planet, race and gender are an issue?! Radio host Sam Seders (I like his talk), in a whim, painted this as an ironic situation. As if this were symptomatic of our failiure to stop making inferences based on race or gender.

I think the irony is that we have such expectations. How could gender and race not be an issue? Are we expected to factor out race and gender in our relationships? Are we expected to be indifferent towards these human features?

Henry David Thoreau, US Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862):

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

With other words, be of service, be effective, set an example, get noticed, get results, be successfull, and don't be afraid of being subversive. Because what is seen as fair and moral may conceil what is true and possible. A life within the limits of what is safely seen as fair and moral — and normal, is not worth living.

Shepard Fairey: “If your budget is low - make an aesthetic that works.”

There is plenty you can do with a low budget. To end up with an effective aesthetic, with something that works, more money is not a prerequisite. Putting to work what you have now, is.

2008

That's the conclusion you can make from quantum physics: That consciousness is fundamental to everything. So the brain becomes important... for a translator from this universal consciousness through the brain and to the body...it's not generating the consciousness, it's just translating it.

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Black holes are not really black. They are very very bright actually.

Dr Manjir Samanta-Laughton explores the true nature of consciousness.

Even before the final release, Things is so useful and usable, that it is one of my always-open apps. With the features to come, I bet there will be little in the way of managing projects of any size - anything from watering your plants to organizing the Olympics.

Today's update implements recurring tasks.

Flash back: In 2006, Shufflesome stickers were part of the book Graphics Alive.

America! If a grain of salt is alive in you, listen: 1480 KPHX.

In Vermont, two towns voted to arrest Bush and Cheney. Lovely!

Source: Reuters

Did Hillary Clinton win in Ohio and Texas because the majority of Americans who voted there want her for President? I don't think so. She won because people who want a Republican President voted for her.

Votes for Obama reflect the will of the people. Votes for Clinton reflect the effects of deception. Hillary is haughty. A haughty spirit comes before a great fall.

Digital is about authenticity. You can see it in the language they use. Obama uses the language of "we and you," which is inclusive and nods to the wisdom of the crowds. She uses "I and me." His stuff is about "yes, you can." Which is about the buyer. She talks about "experience from day one." That's about the seller. That doesn't resonate anymore.

Source: Obama's Web marketing triumph

Kevin Danaher:

Powerlessness corrupts. . . . We have way more power than we realize. In a democracy, the highest position of authority is not president or supreme court justice. It is citizen. We, the people, hold sovereignty, which means ultimate political authority - but we have been taught to not know this. They have convinced us that we are powerless. We are not. If we think we are, then we are. And the key to this is, what my t-shirt says: organize. All us little mosquitoes need to start biting the big Arnold Schwarzenegger, and he'll leave the forest after getting bitten enough times. It's a Lilliputian strategy. But that is what democracy is all about.

Source: Heard on New Dimensions, Program 2881

Rick Koerber: “To get what you want, give up what you have. If you find yourself not giving up what you have, then you already have what you want.”