I’ve had this idea floating around in my head for a couple weeks now: community as your operating system.  If you need to find the answer to something or produce some kind of ‘knowledge object’ (I can’t think of a better word) you can run queries against your network of amateur experts - your very [...]

Autechre - Gantz Graf
I’ve always thought these two pieces should be in conversation. The piece of the left is Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 . I’ve always loved the piece. It has influenced me in so much of the music that I make. The visual ’stuttering’ of the painting [...]

The following is a brief list of things I’m learning about the connection between your passion and your purpose. Hopefully it grows as I continue on my path.
A purpose is most powerful when connected with your passions.
It is from your purpose that all other actions flow.
Sharing your purpose with others is generally [...]

I’m thinking of writing a personal manifesto. These are the first inklings:

Maximize potential for happiness at any given moment.
Make more choices without overthinking the consequences too much.
Give time to recover/learn from said choices if outcome results in general feelings of guilt, nausea, despair or inadequacy.
Rejoice in said choices if result is empowering, healing, [...]

Is it meaningful for people to organize by keywords?  I was recently invited to join:
http://www.myspace.com/indonesianet
I didn’t feel like I had very much in common with the folks who’s profiles I perused and was most likely found by doing a keyword search.  I feel part Indonesian biologically, but not culturally. Indonesia is part of my biological [...]

waterlines on houses stained where water had risen trapping and drowning people inside their homes where people died spray painted x’s like graffiti on people’s homes marking where people still might be able to recover bodies or animals perhaps still living perhaps not dead animals in [...]

i got this email from my good friend Alex the other day and we had some good correspondence (Alex is currently researching audio/music cognition in Holland - and yes, we do call each other baby):
“hey baby,
i’m reading this crazy neuroscience book right now, which is all about how rhythmic and oscillatory patterns of activity in [...]

Terrence McKenna - Culture is Your Operating System
I think this is a great meme - culture as an operating system. You can choose what ever plug-ins work best for a given context. Even switch operating systems if the need arises to run a particular program - such as when learning a new language [...]

Some people may carry around images of their family.  Other people may wear crosses or get tattoos.  I have this:

This is an image that I have had in my head and heart for a long time.  It’s like a personal icon and for me and represents what I would like to see in the world.  [...]

Kai Ling Xue - A Girl Named Kai
This is hands down, one of the most moving pieces of media I have ever seen. Poetic, profound, inspiring and beautiful. I live to see things like this created in the world.
This piece (taken from YouTube obviously) was created by Kai Ling Xue and submitted to [...]

A city designed and built so people don’t have to use phones.
+people engage each other more
+friendly statues
+no litter
+sun
+trees
+animals

The idea is brilliant. And simple. You click one of four buttons on the iRipple website:

Water:

Food:

Education:

Money:

You are shown an advertisement. A fraction of revenue generated by your clicking and viewing the ad goes to a charity that attends to one of the world needs you clicked on. Brilliant.
I like this one:

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in a hundred years, no matter how enlightened you became in this life, no one may care or even know. think of all the people who you never knew who came before you. they lived their life and then they passed. we, like anyone else, are part of the evolution of those who will come [...]

I found this post off of Chris Csikszentmihalyi’s blog, Associate Professor at MIT. I thought this video was awesome - inspiring to see people of such small stature rising up as a group against Minutemen supporters.

I came across this talk from a podcast via my friend Jared. Being exposed to the ‘design ecology’ she spoke of was truly inspiring.
Taken from the TED page of the above post:
” With 3.8 billion years of research and development on its side, nature has already solved problems that human designers and engineers still [...]