So far the desktop interface of it is pretty damned sweet. It runs off some new Adobe protocol I haven’t heard about, but which this is a brilliant way for them to advertise for to a potential audience (WordPress users), and also drum up authentic grassroots support from those same people.

Brilliant strategists, I bow […]

PROMISE YOU’LL TEACH SOMEONE ELSE WHAT WE LEARNED TOGETHER

okay? promise…? thats all i ask

{Follow-up to here.}
If the brain is “just” a computer, then where do emotions come from? What are they? What purpose do they serve the computer-controlled organism?
{See also: Prometheus Rising, Robert Anton Wilson}

havent quite hit on it yet i will keep trying to re phrase this…

It occurs to me that if it’s true that computers are an externalization of the human mind, then the actual physical human with its merely-computer brain will eventually become obsolete - if only from a purely logical standpoint.
I guess this may be what the Terminator storylines point towards, isn’t it?
It strikes me as very […]

The computers upon which I am typing this and upon which you are reading this (assuming such things as “computers” still exist when the contents of this document are analyzed and absorbed) are extrusions or externalizations of some fundamental aspect of the human mind. Does this aspect have a name, like Logic or Reason or […]

I’m thinking about dropping Google from my workflow on the internet. They already have years of search history on me, along with correlation of that data (or significant portions of it anyway) through several email addresses, websites and financial bits and pieces. Maybe it’s time for me to stop just handing all that data over […]

I think both of these sites are the same thing: ChipIn & Pledgie. They seem to act as web 2.0ish gateways to facilitate your blog/site readers becoming active financial contributors to some designated project, etc. Pledgie uses this kind of language to describe itself, which I rather like:
“Pledgie.com is a framework of services which creates […]

This one is easy and it is strictly a matter of recognizing what the script calls for. If you’re sharing the script, then you should be all set. If the script describes a scene called “Fancy Job Interview”, then you’d know you need to put together a costume that includes possibly a suit coat, or […]

A community is a bunch of people with implicit and explicit agreements about shared values.
A value is just something that is important to them.
Their only agreement may be that this thing is important.
A community is a bunch of people who agree that something is important.
COMMUNITY PEOPLE AGREE IMPORTANT
{I like boiling things down […]

I think that is the simplest way for me to communicate a lot of what I have been after lately. In order to take action in the world, you have to perform that action: you have to act, you have to perform. It’s a performance! Why not make it a good one?

intent action harmony