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"Life expands or shrinks in proportion to one's courage." ~Anain Nin
Wonderful! Beautiful Birds: Masterpieces of Wonderful! Beautiful Birds: Masterpieces of Ornithology [via Plep] jaybird found this for you @ 17:28 in Art, Music, Theater & Film | | permalink
Today is a bit bittersweet, Today is a bit bittersweet, my last day supervising my workers, but in a few weeks it's on to bigger challenges and a more stable future (total illusion, I know), so, it's time to turn off and turn over this ancient workstation and sail on into the Great Big Whatever. jaybird found this for you @ 13:56 in Misc. Babble | | permalink
Indian dam town defies 
Over 20,000 people in India's Madhya Pradesh state are defying a deadline to leave their homes - which will soon be submerged by water from a river dam. The Indira Sagar dam is one of 29 being built on the Narmada river. The town of Harsud, 235km from state capital Bhopal, faces being submerged when monsoons raise the water level. jaybird found this for you @ 12:31 in Environment, Ecology & Nature | | permalink
Moving Mountains, Walking on Water Moving Mountains, Walking on Water As artists like James Turrell and Michael Heizer continue to toil on their massive Earthworks, caretakers of other examples of Land Art are facing questions of conservation, access, and environmental impact. Meanwhile, more ecologically conscious artists have been updating the genre. jaybird found this for you @ 07:31 in Art, Music, Theater & Film | | permalink
"Thanks" jaybird found this for you @ 23:54 in Journaling the Infinite | | permalink
"Lift the handset and dial "Lift the handset and dial a number to be transported to another place." [via MonkeyFilter] jaybird found this for you @ 22:17 in Cosmic Randomness Grab Bag | | permalink
How to Create a Golem How to Create a Golem From the Comfort of Home jaybird found this for you @ 19:06 in High Weirdness | | permalink
Status Qué? So here's the deal- my job isn't lost, it's just wandering away for a while. I've been coordinating 'community based' services for at risk youth for seven months now, on an interim basis. Funding for that position has dried up and gone away... for now. I'll be back 'in the field' over the next two weeks covering vacationing case workers, and when that's over, I re-enter the office for a PERMANENT foster care coordination role, which kicks ass! Provided, of course, that funding for that role is stabilized. Human services work is always at the mercy of the friggin' state, and it drives me bonkers. But, the worst did not come, and in fact, things look slightly brighter. Now on with posting silly links. jaybird found this for you @ 18:41 in Journaling the Infinite | | permalink
The Odds of 9 to 5 Ok, here's a little clarification to that last desparate post (which I wrote as a therapeutic release on my cellphone during a meeting that was drubbing the very soul out of my anxious bones). Today I find out if the funding for my current postition continues or sputters to an end, in as little as a few days or maybe two weeks. So yes, I could be facing unemployment. Or, I could continue on in my position as a 'temp' with enough time to callous up my hiney for the great and final kicking. Or, if the palnets are aligned just right, I might squak by the axe in lieu of the branding iron of permanency. There are very few jobs available right now in this area and in my field- what's out there would most likely force a drastic pay cut, which is better than nothin; but still rather close to nothin'. These are scary times, kids, so send a vibe or two of fortune and positivity this-a-way as crunch time gets down to crunch one thing or another. Either way, to paraphrase what a certain sage said last weekend: the only way to change the world and your life in it, no matter what, is to say YES to it, to jump up and down in it, and remember that consentual reality is an illusion. jaybird found this for you @ 13:37 in Journaling the Infinite | | permalink
This is a moblog* post: My stress levels are going through the roof with this crazy job- unfortunately, the spectre of unemployment is even creepier. Please keep fingers and toes crossed. *Moblogging is posting from a cellphone or other wireless device- if a picture, it's taken from the phone. jaybird found this for you @ 11:19 in Live from the road... | | permalink
Family values with a hooker Family values with a hooker on each arm: Sex pros get ready for party With thousands of Republicans set to invade the city this summer, high-priced escorts and strippers are preparing for one grand old party. Agencies are flying in extra call girls from around the globe to meet the expected demand during the Aug. 30-Sept. 2 gathering at Madison Square Garden. "We have girls from London, Seattle, California, all coming in for that week," said a madam at a Manhattan escort service. "It's the week everyone wants to work." jaybird found this for you @ 07:49 in News, Opinion & Politique | | permalink
Four and a Half Wonders for Monday jaybird found this for you @ 23:09 in Journaling the Infinite | | permalink
Cultivating sacred sexuality Our North Our North American culture is goofy when it comes to sexuality. On the one hand, sexuality and sexual information is suppressed; perhaps because we confuse ignorance with innocence. On the other hand, sex is everywhere - used to sell toothpaste, brain-dead television sitcoms, soft drinks and cigarettes. Our culture is also goofy when it comes to spirituality. The scientific age in which we live has us satisfied only when we have broken everything down into the smallest parts possible. “Mystery” has come to mean failure a to understand or research thoroughly enough. Mainstream religion - meaningful for many, but a compromised resource for lesbians and gay men - seems equally uncomfortable with the puzzles of life’s meaning at the end of this millennium. Despite all our knowledge, we find ourselves adrift. jaybird found this for you @ 21:25 in Spirituality, Religion & Mythos | | permalink
10 Quirky Landmarks, including a 10 Quirky Landmarks, including a field of corn (but not a typical field). [via somewhere, I forget where] jaybird found this for you @ 18:30 in Culture, People & Customs | | permalink
Go to the slime mold, Go to the slime mold, thou sluggard: To see the world in a uninucleate amoeboflagellate cell, and heaven in a plasmodium ...these organisms challenge some of our most fundamental preconceptions about how life should work. And needless to say, faulty assumptions and unconscious prejudices constitute the most serious impediments to understanding - in religion no less than in science. You want transformation, metamorphosis? Boy, do these suckers ever metamorphose. Forget about caterpillar into luna moth, soul into spirit, Big Mac into little Jimmy. Every species of slime mold progresses from an assimilative phase to a propagative phase: that is to say, they go from moving around and eating stuff to standing still and growing little stalks. From animal-like to plant-like - often in just a few hours if the conditions are right. jaybird found this for you @ 14:23 in Environment, Ecology & Nature | | permalink
He has your eyes...? Iranian He has your eyes...? Iranian woman 'gives birth to frog' An Iranian newspaper has reported the controversial story of a woman who claims to have given birth to a frog. The Iranian daily Etemaad says the creature is believed to have grown from larva to an adult frog inside her body. jaybird found this for you @ 10:13 in Forteana, Phenomena & the Bizarre | | permalink
Start your Monday with profound Start your Monday with profound questions: What is that thing? Images of bizarre antiquated contraptions meet your mind and it's own images of bizarre antiquated subconscious associations. jaybird found this for you @ 07:17 in History, Civilization & Anthropology | | permalink
Jay: What does the trickster Jay: What does the trickster do for society? Tom Robbins: The trickster heals through wonder and humor... [1.2mb mp3] Yes, 'Tom Robbinsfest' continues here as Jay just won't come down from the high of meeting such a warm and amazingly 'vivid' person. jaybird found this for you @ 19:28 in Spirituality, Religion & Mythos | | permalink
Why in the world 
Why in the world does Tom Robbins write, jaybird found this for you @ 16:36 in Authors, Books & Words | | permalink
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Look close... it's hard to tell like in the last pic from the appearance yesterday, but that ruddy dot at the center is Tom (here at Jubilee! Community, what we call a 'special-ed' church for the non-churchly) Just delivered a really powerful speechette too. *Moblogging is posting from a cellphone or other wireless device- if a picture, it's taken from the phone. This post has been updated. jaybird found this for you @ 11:50 in Live from the road... | | permalink
"If you meet the Tom on the road..." ... take him to lunch! Oh by golly gosh, count my lucky stars! I've just been invited to dine with Tom Robbins, the guru's guru, the conjurer's stardust! It's around 1 o'clock today, so send me a wink and a prayer as I keep my composure, bottle up the nervous sweat that heaves forth in the expectation that comes with meeting such a venerable clown, a holy hullabaloo artist (as he insists each of us are as well). I'll have more audio from yesterday's Q&A up later today, including the trickster one from yours truly. I'm recording his talk at chuch this morning as well... for those in the know, there's a can of beans, a dirty sock, a painted stick, and a silver spoon on the altar today. I'll see if I can moblog a pic from the talk here... y'all must think I'm crazy for all this jittery joy, but bear in mind that we all suffer from such aflictions when some similar vessel of the divine spills wine all over our finery. jaybird found this for you @ 10:34 in Journaling the Infinite | | permalink
Quite the headline for big Quite the headline for big media: Gay pride message spreads across the world Hundreds of thousands of revelers wearing everything from full Victorian garb and designer gowns to skimpy leather and construction hats celebrated gay pride in cities around the world Saturday. Berlin saw one of Europe's largest parades. To the sound of thumping techno music, the city's openly gay Mayor Klaus Wowereit led floats in the 12th annual celebration of Christopher Street Day, commemorating the start of the gay rights movement in New York's Greenwich Village in 1969. jaybird found this for you @ 07:50 in Gay, Lesbian, Queer & Free | | permalink
Audio entry: this is part Audio entry: this is part 1 of several clips from the Tom Robbins festivities today: here, Tom gets vaguely semi-autobiographical. [2.2mb mp3 file] jaybird found this for you @ 03:00 in Authors, Books & Words | | permalink
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Of all people, it's my favorite author/guru of the godly giggle, Tom Robbins! *Moblogging is posting from a cellphone or other wireless device- if a picture, it's taken from the phone. This post has been updated. jaybird found this for you @ 18:10 in Live from the road... | | permalink
Here's some bizarre web-art for Here's some bizarre web-art for a potentially bizarre day: Oculart, via MeFi. Why bizarre? In a few mere hours, I'll meet my guru, my first spiritual teacher-by-proxy, Mr. Tom Robbins. If possible, I'll post pics or audio. Woo who who and Wee he he! jaybird found this for you @ 15:48 in Art, Music, Theater & Film | | permalink
Street Memes: a sticker, stencil, Street Memes: a sticker, stencil, or poster that can spread a single image around the world. Unlike traditional graffiti art where each piece is unique, street memes can be copied repeatedly, taking on a life of their own, and spreading through the collective effort of people scattered around the world. [via World Changing] jaybird found this for you @ 13:12 in Art, Music, Theater & Film | | permalink
Semiotics for Beginners If you If you go into a bookshop and ask them where to find a book on semiotics you are likely to meet with a blank look. Even worse, you might be asked to define what semiotics is - which would be a bit tricky if you were looking for a beginner's guide. It's worse still if you do know a bit about semiotics, because it can be hard to offer a simple definition which is of much use in the bookshop. If you've ever been in such a situation, you'll probably agree that it's wise not to ask. Semiotics could be anywhere. The shortest definition is that it is the study of signs. But that doesn't leave enquirers much wiser. 'What do you mean by a sign?' people usually ask next. The kinds of signs that are likely to spring immediately to mind are those which we routinely refer to as 'signs' in everyday life, such as road signs, pub signs and star signs. If you were to agree with them that semiotics can include the study of all these and more, people will probably assume that semiotics is about 'visual signs'. You would confirm their hunch if you said that signs can also be drawings, paintings and photographs, and by now they'd be keen to direct you to the art and photography sections. But if you are thick-skinned and tell them that it also includes words, sounds and 'body language' they may reasonably wonder what all these things have in common and how anyone could possibly study such disparate phenomena. If you get this far they've probably already 'read the signs' which suggest that you are either eccentric or insane and communication may have ceased. jaybird found this for you @ 11:50 in Consciousness, Psychology & Philosophy | | permalink
Suspiciously superstitious: Superstitions Database • Suspiciously superstitious: Superstitions Database • A frog brings good luck to the house it enters. jaybird found this for you @ 09:47 in Culture, People & Customs | | permalink
Audio entry: Just after 
Audio entry: Just after watching 'Fahrenheit 9/11, walking to the car. [mp3 1.1mb] jaybird found this for you @ 00:55 in Journaling the Infinite | | permalink
This is a moblog* post: Miracle! I'm in! *Moblogging is posting from a cellphone or other wireless device- if a picture, it's taken from the phone. jaybird found this for you @ 21:53 in Live from the road... | | permalink
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In the spirit of Friday In the spirit of Friday poetry (because I'm presently about the do the sound for a poetry concert), Hello Kitty Has No Mouth. Hello-Kitty, in fact, uses Morse code to communicate with the outside world. You may have heard of the book Johnny Got His Gun, in which a soldier was so badly wounded that the only communication he had with the outside world was by tapping Morse code with his head. That soldier was Hello-Kitty. jaybird found this for you @ 19:04 in Silly People, Satire & Strange Behaviors | | permalink
Movies > The 1,000 The 1,000 Best Movies Ever Made, according to the grey lady, anyway. I'm going to see the 10 o'clock showing of F911 (if lady luck allows), et bien sur, I'll review it for ya kiddies! UPDATE: The line apparently is stretching to about 1/4 mile! Looks like I won't make this viewing, but I'll be on the scene soon and will post pics! jaybird found this for you @ 18:14 in Art, Music, Theater & Film | | permalink
Anonymous is one prolific author! Anonymous is one prolific author! jaybird found this for you @ 17:26 in Authors, Books & Words | | permalink
Terminator my ass... isn't there Terminator my ass... isn't there anything more important to do than to decide when to kill things, Arnie? Schwarzenegger Wants Strays Killed Faster Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger wants to repeal a state law that requires animal shelters to hold stray dogs and cats for up to six days before killing them. Instead, there would be a three-day requirement for strays. Other animals, including birds, hamsters, potbellied pigs, rabbits, snakes and turtles, could be killed immediately. jaybird found this for you @ 12:49 in News, Opinion & Politique | | permalink
"American Theocracy?" Very bizarre, long and involved dream last night. I slept on the couch for some odd reason and maybe the change of venue got my juices all a twitter. Anyway, it dealt with a theocratic America, and the repression of those who were unmarried, gay, artists, scientists, etc. The resistance was made of the usual suspects but also a wide swath of Christians opposed to this extreme dictatorship. Ernest Borgnine got shot early on by a policeman cracking down on threats to the theocracy.... those who enforced the law were called 'angel-lawyers.' Europe and Canada had also fallen to this regime, possibly on the suspicion that Christ had returned. Australia hadn't fallen yet and there was a huge rally here in the US to pray that 'the Last Prophecy' comes to Australia. There was also a push by the government to evacuate the western portion of the states and move as many people as possible East ostensibly for increased control. I was witnessing some of this incognito as a member of the resistance, living homeless in the back of a truck in the west, trying to outwit the 'angel-lawyers' and tearing down their propaganda posters. This seemed to go on all night, and that's all the detail that's dribbling out of my head right now. jaybird found this for you @ 07:32 in Journaling the Infinite | | permalink
Three Vaguely Interesting Things about Thursday jaybird found this for you @ 21:38 in Journaling the Infinite | | permalink
They apparently haven't heard the They apparently haven't heard the conversations I have witht the cats: Congo word 'most untranslatable' The world's most difficult word to translate has been identified as "ilunga" from the Tshiluba language spoken in south-eastern DR Congo. jaybird found this for you @ 18:55 in Culture, People & Customs | | permalink
Leave a comment here if Leave a comment here if you need a gmail account, I've got invites! jaybird found this for you @ 16:06 in Blogosphere, Tech & Internet | | permalink
I'm a little unsettled about I'm a little unsettled about Ralph Nader. Four years ago, I was very excited about having a progressive choice on the ballot, and have been a long-time fan of Green Party politics. This year is very different, with a true danger of Nader swinging key states to the Forces of Darkness. Kerry ain't my cuppa green tea per se, but I'll have no hesitation (with my paper ballot) voting for Kerry because this is just too damn important this go 'round. [links via MeFi] jaybird found this for you @ 15:04 in News, Opinion & Politique | | permalink
Toxic pollution rose in 2002, Toxic pollution rose in 2002, reversing trend Toxic chemical releases into the environment rose 5 percent in 2002, marking only the second such increase reported by the Environmental Protection Agency in nearly two decades, and the first since 1997. Some 4.79 billion pounds were released in 2002, the latest for which figures are available, not including releases from metal mining, the EPA reports. The agency stopped including that data because of a recent court decision in an industry challenge. jaybird found this for you @ 13:40 in Environment, Ecology & Nature | | permalink
Remembering the amazingly mature poetry Remembering the amazingly mature poetry of Mattie Stepanek: national goodwill ambassador with muscular dystrophy, and 13 year old prodigal wordsmith.
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Upon using a different virus Upon using a different virus scanner, I've discovered over 85megs of files slipped in through a backdoor, all gaming files. I don't even play friggin' solitaire. That's totally insane and Norton wasn't very interested in discovering them. Infact, most of the files were hidden in the Norton directory. I've switched to Avast, and it found 3 worms Norton couldn't be bothered with. Better yet, Avast is free. /end exceedingly rare plug for products. jaybird found this for you @ 19:53 in Misc. Babble | | permalink
Two first hand accounds of Two first hand accounds of the SpaceShipOne launch: Alan's Mojave Airport Weblog has great pics and really good commentary, and thread commenter at Metafilter (off all blessed places) tells the story of the 'scene' at Mojave very well. jaybird found this for you @ 18:43 in Science, Quantum & Space | | permalink
YOU MUST BE HAPPY: Bush YOU MUST BE HAPPY: Bush to screen population for mental illness President Bush plans to unveil next month a sweeping mental health initiative that recommends screening for every citizen and promotes the use of expensive antidepressants and antipsychotic drugs favored by supporters of the administration. jaybird found this for you @ 12:10 in News, Opinion & Politique | | permalink
English Divers Find Giant 'Guard' English Divers Find Giant 'Guard' Lobster Lobsters have long been known as solitary and territorial crustaceans — but timely and fashion conscious? Divers in northeast England were recently surprised to come across a giant lobster standing guard over a barnacle-encrusted watch at the bottom of a harbor. jaybird found this for you @ 07:30 in Environment, Ecology & Nature | | permalink
Here's an entertaining read, and Here's an entertaining read, and no, I won't give any hints as to why (you just have to see for your own inquisitive selves): The LiveJournal of Zachary Marsh zackattack86: wtf he must be 100 years old oldmanmarsh: He's quite a bit older than that zackattack86: so we're having like a family reunion? oldmanmarsh: You could say that jaybird found this for you @ 22:02 in Blogosphere, Tech & Internet | | permalink
I don't really link much I don't really link much to sports, but this qualifies for an entirely different reason: Jumbo footballers take on Thais Huge footballing talents are on show at the Euro 2004 championship, but in Thailand the star players are just huge - jumbo-sized, in fact. Ten elephants took on a Thai prison team on Sunday in a game that officials hoped would show playing football is more fun than gambling on it. jaybird found this for you @ 20:19 in Radical Undertakings | | permalink
Several items of note: Rummy Several items of note: jaybird found this for you @ 15:59 in News, Opinion & Politique | | permalink
Man Has 20-Feet Long Hair; Man Has 20-Feet Long Hair; Hasn't Been Cut In 30 Years Hay, 67, is a traditional medicine practitioner from southern Kien Giang province, some 220 miles southwest of Ho Chi Minh City. He provides free treatment to villagers in the region. jaybird found this for you @ 11:54 in Interesting People | | permalink
Let's think ahead shall we? Let's think ahead shall we? Brian Eno on the Long Now: We felt that there was a need to create some new form of human thinking about Time. We were all aware that everything was getting faster. One of our founder members was Danny Hillis, who built one of the fastest computers ever made, so he was particularly aware of the degree to which time had been sliced into finer and finer parts. We were also aware as we looked around that most of the ambitions and objectives of people in corporations and in government, even in education had become closer and closer in terms of time so corporations were living in fear of their quarterly results and politicians were living in fear of the next opinion poll. There seemed to be an ever-decreasing horizon into the future and very little encouragement from people in any direction to lay long term plans. No politician wants to start on a plan that doesn’t yield results pretty quickly at least within his or her term of office. The worst thing of all is if it yields results in the opposition’s term of office and of course the media don’t help this by always focusing on things that seem like blue sky projects and criticising them as being stupidly idealistic and pointless. We thought that there was first of all the need for an organisation that would celebrate that kind of thinking, that would ally with it, that would support it, that would encourage it and in fact would try to do it itself. jaybird found this for you @ 07:33 in Consciousness, Psychology & Philosophy | | permalink
"A Day in the Clouds"  How marvelously shrewd of the Creator jaybird found this for you @ 21:56 in Journaling the Infinite | | permalink
Why I Celebrate June 21st. REPRINT: The entry from one year ago today, and why June 21st is so important to me: June 21, 2003: At long last! Today is the summer solstice; in three hours, the season of the sun will officially begin. While it is surely a day of "vivid leisure" for Americans to fire up the barbecue and strap another beer onto the belly, it marks a different time for me. Due to constraints of that pesky artificial construct "time," this year's celebrations will be a little less involved, but nonetheless pertinent and spiritually focused. Soon I will be hiking Craggy Pinnacle, about my favorite place on the Goddess' verdant terra firma, with some ritual accoutrements and a heap of topics to transmute. Already, I think the theme of this year is; Genuine Action, Responsible Thought, Ecstatic Ritual. I suppose the acronym for this would be g.a.r.t.e.r., which is strange, but on this gateway of life and death, what isn't? jaybird found this for you @ 12:15 in Journaling the Infinite | | permalink
WOO-HOO! First Civilian Astronaut Pilots WOO-HOO! First Civilian Astronaut Pilots SpaceShipOne into Suborbit Tucked underneath its carrier aircraft, the privately-built SpaceShipOne departed from an airstrip here at about 9:47 a.m. ET – prepared to trail blaze its way into history by attempting the first non-governmental flight to leave the Earth's atmosphere. jaybird found this for you @ 11:50 in Science, Quantum & Space | | permalink
In pictures: Summer solstice 
In pictures: Summer solstice at Stonehenge jaybird found this for you @ 08:42 in Spirituality, Religion & Mythos | | permalink
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Late night stroll *Moblogging is posting from a cellphone or other wireless device- if a picture, it's taken from the phone. jaybird found this for you @ 00:14 in Live from the road... | | permalink
Three Q & A sessions Three Q & A sessions with the crazy guru in town next week, Mr. Tom Robbins: 1, 2, 3. jaybird found this for you @ 20:39 in Authors, Books & Words | | permalink
Living on Sun, Water, Wind, Living on Sun, Water, Wind, Grass, and Community Nearly everyone who has been to the solar village Gaviotas, east of the Andes in Colombia, calls it a utopia. But it isn't, says Paolo Lugari, its founder. That word means in Greek "no place." Gaviotas has existed, however improbably, for more than 30 years now. Lugari says it's a "topia" -- simply a place. When he first saw it, looking down from a small plane in 1965, it surely looked like no place. There were two crumbling warehouses abandoned by a road crew at the end of a failed attempt to cut a highway across the huge, wild, wet savanna called the llanos. No one lived on the llanos except a few scattered ranchers and the Guahibo Indians, who fished and hunted in mosquitoey forest strips along the rivers. The soil was so toxic that nothing but tough grass could grow. If people can live here, they can live anywhere, Lugari thought. He set out to show that they could. jaybird found this for you @ 16:19 in Environment, Ecology & Nature | | permalink
"Fox Whiskers" Dedicated to my first spiritual teacher, long since disappeared into the vast American West but not for an instant forgotten to me, the incomparible Jason McCollum Moon. jaybird found this for you @ 12:03 in Journaling the Infinite | | permalink
"Heart of the Forest" Let me leave a trail of breadcrumbs jaybird found this for you @ 02:17 in Journaling the Infinite | | permalink
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The dancefloor; a spectral forest of desire *Moblogging is posting from a cellphone or other wireless device- if a picture, it's taken from the phone. jaybird found this for you @ 01:03 in Live from the road... | | permalink
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Make a wish, she said *Moblogging is posting from a cellphone or other wireless device- if a picture, it's taken from the phone. jaybird found this for you @ 20:32 in Live from the road... | | permalink
Principe: island of chocolate. [more Principe: island of chocolate. [more about Sao Tome and Principe: 1,2,3] jaybird found this for you @ 16:19 in Country of the Week | | permalink
Today is 'Juneteenth,' which celebrates Today is 'Juneteenth,' which celebrates the end of slavery in U.S. With its lighthearted name and tragicomic origins, Juneteenth appeals to many Americans by celebrating the end of slavery without dwelling on its legacy. Juneteenth, celebrators say, is Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday without the grieving. jaybird found this for you @ 16:05 in Culture, People & Customs | | permalink
Blowing In The Wind" Whirling
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Bush told he is playing Bush told he is playing into Bin Laden's hands Al-Qaida may 'reward' American president with strike aimed at keeping him in office, senior intelligence man says Anonymous does not try to veil his contempt for the Bush White House and its policies. His book describes the Iraq invasion as "an avaricious, premeditated, unprovoked war against a foe who posed no immediate threat but whose defeat did offer economic advantage. "One way to keep the Republicans in power is to mount an attack that would rally the country around the president." jaybird found this for you @ 09:16 in News, Opinion & Politique | | permalink
Five Interesting Things About Friday jaybird found this for you @ 23:38 in Journaling the Infinite | | permalink
Doing sound and light for Doing sound and light for a concert tonight... the musician will be performing at the UN with an international choir, so it's really cool... jaybird found this for you @ 20:02 in Misc. Babble | | permalink
Baboons on rampage in South Baboons on rampage in South African town Residents of a small South African coastal town are threatening to declare all-out war on baboons who have terrorised pre-schoolers, raided homes for food and urinated on clothes after pulling them out of closets. jaybird found this for you @ 16:39 in Environment, Ecology & Nature | | permalink
There's a lot of hubbub There's a lot of hubbub and chatter on the net about a 'house-sized' meteorite impact in Australia, but so far, this is the only newsy report I can find, and of course, there's a very interesting MeFi thread. By the way, if you can't tell already, I've taken today through Monday off. jaybird found this for you @ 12:20 in Science, Quantum & Space | | permalink
A reader over at Eschaton A reader over at Eschaton does some super-sleuthing: take a gander at this photo from Resident Bush's last cabinet meeting, and read the very interesting transcription that follows... jaybird found this for you @ 10:22 in News, Opinion & Politique | | permalink
Galleries of the Society for Galleries of the Society for Art of Imagination. [via Clifford Pickover's Reality Carnival] We intend to assist the resurgence of interest in fantastic and visionary art and make the Art of Imagination accessible to all... jaybird found this for you @ 09:15 in Art, Music, Theater & Film | | permalink
Ten Interesting things about Thursday and... jaybird found this for you @ 21:50 in Journaling the Infinite | | permalink
Cosmic gadfly Robert Anton Wilson Cosmic gadfly Robert Anton Wilson has started his own school: Maybe Logic Academy The Academy features online courses by many of the most important and ground-breaking writers, theorists and leaders today. Courses are grounded in the philosophy and perspective of maybe logic, an approach which emphasizes the fallibility and relativity of perception and tends to approach information and theory with questions, probabilities and multiple perspectives rather than absolute truths. If students leave the courses with more questions - and more options - we've done our job. jaybird found this for you @ 17:54 in Consciousness, Psychology & Philosophy | | permalink
Body and Soul Our greatest Our greatest efforts at physical control frequently come to naught: causing us to twitch, tremble, blush, weep, lose consciousness despite our strongest will to do otherwise. Organs, glands, and intestines go about their solemn work, requiring micturition, flatulation, defecation, ejaculation, belching, burping, yawning, and hiccuping--while in the engine room (as one would like to think of the mind) one is earnestly trying to determine, say, why there have been no major poets born after 1900. I recently read about Hermann Jellinek, a revolutionary about to be executed by hanging in Vienna during the revolution of 1848, who remarked: "My spirit is calm. I hope my body will not play tricks with me." jaybird found this for you @ 16:02 in Consciousness, Psychology & Philosophy | | permalink
It's getting stranger all the It's getting stranger all the time: Teleportation breakthrough made Scientists have performed successful teleportation on atoms for the first time, the journal Nature reports. The feat was achieved by two teams of researchers working independently on the problem in the US and Austria. The ability to transfer key properties of one particle to another without using any physical link has until now only been achieved with laser light. jaybird found this for you @ 07:48 in Science, Quantum & Space | | permalink
"Daring Verses" There's never just one soul all alone jaybird found this for you @ 22:53 in Journaling the Infinite | | permalink
Jack Parsons was one very Jack Parsons was one very interesting, if dangerous, human being. Using the whole six degrees of separation thing, I am only 3 from this immensely colorful, disturbing man. jaybird found this for you @ 17:36 in Interesting People | | permalink
Most excellent: Consciousness Timeline II: Most excellent: Consciousness Timeline II: 1970-present [via MeFi] The following timeline is by necessity somewhat arbitrary and quite partial. The point is not to chart the minutiae of events of what I am loosely calling the "consciousness movement," but to give a sense for a few prominent milestones. The last hundred years have witnessed the gradual creation of a new world philosophy, one that sees human beings engaged in an evolutionary process to access a deeper, richer, more playful consciousness and to manifest the fruits of that work in the world. This new amalgam of ideas and practices has drawn from dozens of traditions, thousands of books and experiments, and millions of lives. Drawing a firm boundary around this "movement" is thus misleading. It is better likened to the flow of a tumultuous river, its millions of eddies and currents creating, when seen from afar, a cohesive sense of direction. This timeline is best viewed as a snapshot of that river from high above. jaybird found this for you @ 13:37 in Consciousness, Psychology & Philosophy | | permalink
Taking Life's Final Exit Bedridden Bedridden after being rushed to the hospital for what would be the final eight days of his life, Kenny casually mentioned that he was visiting Detroit. It was a rather odd place for him to be traveling — even if only in his imagination — because the hospital was near home in suburban Philadelphia and he didn't have any ties to the Motor City. At first, our family dismissed these journeys as confusion; we would laugh through our tears about the various places and modes of transport he had been taking. It must be the painkillers, we thought. Or maybe hypoxia, the oxygen deprivation in the blood that often contributes to delirium in sick people. Or that the cancer now was destroying his mind, just as it had racked his body.
jaybird found this for you @ 11:08 in Spirituality, Religion & Mythos | | permalink
Revel in Joycean exaltation, for Revel in Joycean exaltation, for it's 100 years of Bloomsday today. Every year since at least 1954, fans of author James Joyce have celebrated Bloomsday on June 16-- the date (in 1904) when his Ulysses takes place. (Even in 1924 the word was used by friends presenting Joyce a bouquet.) In many cities, attempts are made to read the entire book out loud. In Dublin, tourists dress up and retrace the routes of Joyce's characters. Everywhere, alcohol is consumed in quantity. jaybird found this for you @ 06:57 in Authors, Books & Words | | permalink
In pictures: An Ethiopian herder's In pictures: An Ethiopian herder's way of life jaybird found this for you @ 22:45 in Culture, People & Customs | | permalink
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Rainy day cat *Moblogging is posting from a cellphone or other wireless device- if a picture, it's taken from the phone. UPDATE: If her hair looks unusual to you, it is; Ursula recently received a 'lion's cut' as her double coat becomes easily matted as she sheds her winter coat. And oddly enough, she loves being so punk rock. jaybird found this for you @ 18:17 in Live from the road... | | permalink
World's land turning to desert World's land turning to desert at alarming speed, United Nations warns One-third of the Earth's surface is at risk, driving people into cities and destroying agriculture in vast swaths of Africa. Thirty-one percent of Spain is threatened, while China has lost 36,000 square miles to desert -- an area the size of Indiana -- since the 1950s. jaybird found this for you @ 18:02 in Environment, Ecology & Nature | | permalink
"Trolling for W" Today I had to go way out into the country (I mean Way Out) with my wonderfully liberal car Gloria Grace on a mission from the office with a colleague. Festooned, along with many other catchy slogans, on the back bumper is the following phrase: "Someone else for President." This sentiment did not go over well with one of the locals. He flagged us to roll down my window, and I'm thinking that an overall good nature is still a dominant trait with most of humanity.... perhaps I have a brake lght out or some such malfunction worthy of this mode of parlance with the gentry. Indeed, 'twas not: "Some else for President? There's only one buddy, and that's W, four more years for W!, etc. Why do you people drive those cheap ass ugly cars anyway" Ah, yes, an encounter with the electorate. What fun. But he didn't respond to the other messages on the back bumper, and if he would have, it might have been much more interesting: And finally, my ultimate comeback: jaybird found this for you @ 13:16 in Journaling the Infinite | | permalink
Recursive delight: Trippy Mirror Illusion Recursive delight: Trippy Mirror Illusion jaybird found this for you @ 10:32 in High Weirdness | | permalink
Inventor plans 'invisible walls' 
The inventor of an "invisibility" cloak has said that his next project will be to develop the technology to allow people to see through walls. Susumu Tachi, who showed off the cloak at an exhibition in San Francisco earlier this month, said he was hopeful of providing a way to provide a view of the outside in windowless rooms. "This technology can be used in all kinds of ways, but I wanted to create a vision of invisibility..." jaybird found this for you @ 07:16 in Science, Quantum & Space | | permalink
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I'm in a very silly I'm in a very silly mood tonight... thus: Public Service Announcements, slightly reeeeeeeeeemixed. (mpg format) jaybird found this for you @ 20:49 in Silly People, Satire & Strange Behaviors | | permalink
c monks has some thoughts c monks has some thoughts on events in the news Happy Flag Day! I love flags. Flags rock. Doesn't matter what kind of flag it is either, I love them all. The US flag is actually kind of overrated. Too busy. How many frickin' stars and stripes does one flag need anyway? Still, it's a flag, so I love it! I wish I could put flags up everywhere around my house. Just, you know, flag this mutha out. It'd be awesome. I'd have like ten flags in the living room and nine in the kitchen. My house would be the flaggiest house in the neighborhood. That would be awesome. jaybird found this for you @ 20:00 in Silly People, Satire & Strange Behaviors | | permalink
Are you amazed? Interrogation abuses Are you amazed? Interrogation abuses were 'approved at highest levels' New evidence that the physical abuse of detainees in Iraq and at Guantanamo Bay was authorised at the top of the Bush administration will emerge in Washington this week, adding further to pressure on the White House. jaybird found this for you @ 18:24 in News, Opinion & Politique | | permalink
Space rock smashes into 
A grapefruit-sized meteorite has crashed through the roof of a house in Auckland, New Zealand. jaybird found this for you @ 12:09 in Science, Quantum & Space | | permalink
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Boo-hoo; I have to move into a new, less intimate office today *Moblogging is posting from a cellphone or other wireless device- if a picture, it's taken from the phone. jaybird found this for you @ 09:22 in Live from the road... | | permalink
Terror inquiry snares art exhibit Terror inquiry snares art exhibit Visitors to "The Interventionists" exhibit at MASS MoCA are greeted by a sight unusual even for the cutting-edge art museum. One of the galleries in the show devoted to contemporary political art is oddly vacant, dominated by empty tables and a sign explaining that the materials intended for the display have been impounded by the FBI. The seized materials, including simple bacteria, have become part of a case that some feel is pitting artistic expression against the sweeping anti-terrorism powers of the federal government. In addition to confiscating the makings of the art installation, federal officials have subpoenaed the artists involved in the work and may be pursuing charges of biological terrorism. jaybird found this for you @ 07:20 in News, Opinion & Politique | | permalink
Future Hi: Paradigm Shift I Future Hi: Paradigm Shift I had a vision last weekend concerning cultural/technological evolution and the concept of the Singularity (what follows is a rough outline of a larger paper I'm working on). The Singularity is alternatively imagined to be some apocalyptic transformation through fire which will purge the planet of the Old Ways and sweep the pure of heart into the next phase of existence, or it is a sudden shift in perception as technology is accelerating so quickly that life is indistinguishable from imagination. I tend to lean towards the latter, though I question how much of the Old Ways will disappear in the new paradigm. jaybird found this for you @ 19:44 in Consciousness, Psychology & Philosophy | | permalink
His other job is chief His other job is chief lama in Russian republic This pleasant young man from Colorado has been identified by the Dalai Lama of Tibet as the latest of many reincarnations of a Buddhist saint who lived in northern India 400 or 500 years ago. On and off for about half of every year, Ombadykow spends time at what might be called his day job, as chief lama here in the republic of Kalmykia, on the Caspian Sea. It is his ancestral homeland -- a piece of Russia that is the only predominantly Buddhist region in Europe. jaybird found this for you @ 16:49 in Spirituality, Religion & Mythos | | permalink
The Three Top Sins Of The Three Top Sins Of The Universe On Tuesday September 11, 2001, at least 35,615 of our brother and sisters died from the worst possible death, starvation. Somewhere around 85% of these starvation deaths occur in children 5 years of age or younger. Why are we letting at least 30,273 of the most beautiful children die the worst possible death everyday? Every 2.43 seconds another one of our fellow brothers and sisters dies of starvation. Starvation doesn't just happen on Tuesday September 11, 2001, it happens everyday, 365 days per year, 24 hours per day, it never stops. jaybird found this for you @ 13:59 in Consciousness, Psychology & Philosophy | | permalink
Aldous Huxley: The Ultimate Revolution Aldous Huxley: The Ultimate Revolution [audio lecture, Real Player req.] jaybird found this for you @ 07:32 in Consciousness, Psychology & Philosophy | | permalink
"Thunder Theatre" Thunder booms, twilight looms: jaybird found this for you @ 20:43 in Journaling the Infinite | | permalink
The Continuing Adventures of Person and Centaur, Part II 
Centaur: It depends on what you mean by ‘lovely’ and what you mean by ‘day.’ If these factors are suitably defined, I might be inclined to agree with you. Person: I was just making an observation, really, I’m not interested in proving these fairly common concepts for the sake of genial conversation. Centaur: Fine. Have a little smoke. Person: No thanks, it’s early yet. Centaur: Early in the ‘day,’ you mean. Person: Yes, of course. Centaur: Thank you for the insight, my friend! It is, in fact, a day, and you have just proved it adequately for me. Cheers! (Centaur inhales deeply from an ornate smoking pipe made from a conch shell, a turnip, three yards of green shoestring and a Chinese astrological scroll, exhaling a purple stream of smoke that eventually forms into a severe thunderstorm over Blue Earth, Minnesota, with penny-sized hale and wind strong enough to knock over the strongest of garden gnomes). Person: How so? Centaur: By saying that it was early yet, you therefore constrain the concept ‘day’ into a comprehendible model. ‘Day’ becomes a set length, wherein for you at least, there is a beginning, middle, and some degree of ending. While I may not keep the same hours as you, I as a sympathetic creature can relate to your routines within that grouping of variables. Person: ? Centaur: I am written from a human perspective, yet being a Centaur I cannot pretend to grasp a majority of your ways of thinking. Likewise, I as a Centaur am rather an enigma to you... you being not just a human but a Person, endowed with a sense of personhood, and depending on your reasoning ability, placehood... Person: Whoa, we’re getting a little off topic. All I said was that it’s a lovely day! Centaur: But we are actually radically on-topic! Don’t you see? I am trying to understand the totality of ‘day’ which, by your measure is ‘lovely’ and therefore worthy of remark and praise, which just now was evoked as you gaily sauntered by a fantastical creature. The only way to do that fully and completely is to discover exactly who you are and exactly who I am. Once we have compared our mutuality and contrast, we can agree on basic ideals, and I am utterly anxious to reach accord with you on all that is ‘lovely!’ Smoke? Person: Lovely is... lovely is... lovely is what it is. Lovely is today. It’s a state of being, a feeling. It’s... just lovely. What is there to understand about that? Centaur: Exactly. Person: ? Centaur: It’s an abstract idea, but one among many that is central to conscious experience, which in turn defines you as a Person and all the sentience you call upon to make sense of the world. Your concept of ‘lovely’ is uniquely yours, and all we can do is share the word, which appears to be related to a state of love. We can toss the word around, play with it, bend it, but it will still be ‘lovely.’ What we cannot possibly fathom is the depth and breadth of your experience of ‘lovely,’ something far more mutable and expansive than two syllables thrown together and used as an adjective in a sentence. Person: I see. Well, I must be off, as it seems that a true conversation will be difficult. I might as well flail my arms in the air and quack like a duck in order to express the loveliness of this day. Farewell. Centaur: Wait! I’d much rather you do that than just pass by saying how lovely the day is. Express the loveliness in the flailing and quacking! Person: I can’t do that. Centaur: Sure you can ol’ chap, you’re just a character in a book, there’s no one that’ll be blushing at you unless you and the author work together to make someone else up. C’mon, get to it! Person: But I don’t know you! Centaur: All the more reason, my friend. No one is watching except That Who Is Reading This. And They certainly won’t mind. Person: Well... (looks around, pauses, and nervously jumps a bit, wagging the arms and making a restrained quacking noise). Centaur: Ah, from that I’d say it’s a fair day. Person: (exasperated) It’s a lovely day! Centaur: Prove it! Person: (a more vigorous performance this time, a bit of genuine flail, and a quack that’s muted but well-intentioned). Centaur: It’s a good day. Person: IT’S A LOVELY DAY! (another round, this time with exuberant flailing, loud quacking, which stops a whole flock of American Wigeons from their muddy festivities only 23 miles from Where You Are Sitting Now, who reply in unison with QUACK!) Centaur: It’s a lovely day! I agree wholeheartedly! Sit for a spell and have a smoke. How do you do, I’m a Centaur. Person: I.... (embarrassed, looking all about to see if anyone other than You saw this) I’m a... I’m a person? Centuar: Very good, yes you are. Now that we’ve begun, let’s get down to the nitty gritty... (To be continued) jaybird found this for you @ 15:03 in Journaling the Infinite | | permalink
What is the Plain of What is the Plain of Jars, what does it look like, and where is it? UPDATE: Here's some links from the MeFi thread about the same subject: 1,2. jaybird found this for you @ 14:26 in Country of the Week | | permalink
"The Circus has come to town..." The circus has come to town... The circus is in the canopy of supermarket trees The circus is in the firefly starlight The circus is in the fever dreams of butterflies The circus has come to town You are a trapeze to my spangled wishes jaybird found this for you @ 12:39 in Journaling the Infinite | | permalink
The Northern Mockingbird About 
About their song: Sometimes when a mockingbird impresses himself with a particularly good riff, he does a little somersault and goes right back to singing. That's got to feel good, on a physical level, whether or not a potential mate is watching and listening. As Blake said, "How do you know but ev'ry bird that cuts the airy way is an immense world of delight, clos'd by your senses five?" Listen up. jaybird found this for you @ 09:34 in Creature of the Week | | permalink
Ok, fickle me... I'm tired Ok, fickle me... I'm tired and changed my mind about watching the show. I'm house managing for it and that consumes about all the stamina I've got. Work has been zapping all of my available resources, which in turn diminishes my more elaborate stimuli-seeking desires, which in turn threatens the creative output I must maintain in order to meet my self-imposed deadline for submitting my manuscript for Book #2. But this seemingly useless ranting has great therapeutic value, which I've not exploited in some time on the site, always in fear that it's banal and drab reading. You might see more of it, now that I've rekindled those neurons that grant permission to air out the pent up ferment of my cranial fatty tissue and my dithering, dizzy bones. jaybird found this for you @ 21:23 in Misc. Babble | | permalink
I'm off to see "The I'm off to see "The Glass Menagerie" for the first time... jaybird found this for you @ 18:11 in Art, Music, Theater & Film | | permalink
All the Myriad Things Are All the Myriad Things Are Speaking the Dharma The sounds of the streams and creeks are just like the vast, long tongue of the Buddha, proclaiming the wonderful Dharma. The hues of the green mountains are all the pure Dharma-body, delighting those who see them. If you understand this principle, the absolutely everything in the world is speaking the Dharma. jaybird found this for you @ 17:02 in Spirituality, Religion & Mythos | | permalink
Tomorrow is the World Naked Tomorrow is the World Naked Bike Ride, with Asheville listed as a participant city. Woo-hoo, but alas, my bike is out of comish. jaybird found this for you @ 12:08 in Radical Undertakings | | permalink
This is just very, very This is just very, very nice: Fly guy. jaybird found this for you @ 07:34 in Art, Music, Theater & Film | | permalink
Long Live the Soul 
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This is 'priceless:' Uninvited Artist This is 'priceless:' Uninvited Artist Posts Work at 4 Museums Paintings of President Bush and former President Clinton, accompanied by messages referring to the artist's bodily fluids, mysteriously appeared last week on the walls of two major city museums and reportedly at two other museums in Philadelphia and Washington. The 9-by-15-inch work, done on a frameless canvas, was affixed to the wall with double-sided tape. A label taped next to the painting said it was made with ``acrylic, legal tender and the artist's semen.'' jaybird found this for you @ 12:46 in Art, Music, Theater & Film | | permalink
Bizarre: Skylarks helped by 'crop Bizarre: Skylarks helped by 'crop circles' Crop circles could finally have found their niche with news that leaving fallow patches in cereal fields could help reverse a decline in UK birdlife. jaybird found this for you @ 07:05 in Environment, Ecology & Nature | | permalink
Scientology link to public schools Scientology link to public schools A popular anti-drug program provided free to schools in San Francisco and elsewhere teaches concepts straight out of the Church of Scientology, including medical theories that some addiction experts described as "irresponsible" and "pseudoscience." jaybird found this for you @ 20:57 in Spirituality, Religion & Mythos | | permalink
Utopia or Obivion? Frankly, I'll Utopia or Obivion? Frankly, I'll take non-dualism. Ah, Utopia. That crucial concept and crucial ambiguity! Is Utopia something that is no place and never will be anywhere? Or is Utopia just around the corner of human consciousness? Is it possible that fundamental improvement in humanity's obviously improvable condition could be realized rapidly, voluntarily, consciously, peacefully and democratically? jaybird found this for you @ 19:46 in Consciousness, Psychology & Philosophy | | permalink
House of Bees: 700,000 removed House of Bees: 700,000 removed from man's home. He must've been bee-draggled. jaybird found this for you @ 13:47 in High Weirdness | | permalink
This is a moblog* post: Insane- I am in court all day for work; what an amazing cross-section of either defeated or cocky humans. *Moblogging is posting from a cellphone or other wireless device- if a picture, it's taken from the phone. jaybird found this for you @ 13:16 in Live from the road... | | permalink
Planet Venus completes transit 
The planet Venus has completed a very rare passage across the face of the Sun - an event not witnessed since 1882. And this month's winner, apparently having some issues with Shit Creek and a lack of paddles: In closing of this month's such entry, may you all find what you're looking for... dot com. jaybird found this for you @ 20:02 in Blogosphere, Tech & Internet | | permalink
A mother responds to homophobia: A mother responds to homophobia: In high school, while your children were doing what kids that age should be doing, mine labored over a suicide note, drafting and redrafting it to be sure his family knew how much he loved them. My sobbing 17-year-old tore the heart out of me as he choked out that he just couldn't bear to continue living any longer, that he didn't want to be gay and that he couldn't face a life without dignity. jaybird found this for you @ 18:18 in Gay, Lesbian, Queer & Free | | permalink
Bury the 'surprising' news on Bury the 'surprising' news on a holiday: Cheney office denies role in Halliburton deal A reference to such an arrangement was made in an internal Pentagon e-mail from an Army Corps of Engineers official to another Pentagon employee... jaybird found this for you @ 12:21 in News, Opinion & Politique | | permalink
I'm back from paradise and I'm back from paradise and paradisical frinds and about to reenter the workaday world. The vacation was the biggest rejuvinator I've had in some time, and I'll have pics and stories from the road after work today... "The moon... it's ok, man. The moon is ok." jaybird found this for you @ 08:15 in Misc. Babble | | permalink
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