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It does not require many words to speak the truth.
- Chief Joseph
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All things are connected. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth.
- Chief Seattle
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September 26, 2007
The tag of the day is Katuah.
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June 8, 2006
The tag of the day is grace.
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June 2, 2006
The tag of the day is inroad.
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May 31, 2006
The tag of the day is burning daylight.
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May 25, 2006
The tag of the day is naruhodo.
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May 23, 2006
The string of the day is tag storage.
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May 22, 2006
The tag of the day is mountain fever.
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May 18, 2006
The tag of the day is sphere of influence.
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May 16, 2006
The tag of the day is leaf.
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May 10, 2006
The tag of the day is paradigm.
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May 9, 2006
The tag of the day is artifact.
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May 8, 2006
The tag of the day is fair use.
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May 7. 2006
The tag of the day is ambition.
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May 5, 2006
The tag of the day is vehicle.
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May 3, 2006
The tag of the day is filter.
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April 26, 2006
The tag of the day is resonance.
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April 17, 2006
The tag of the day is permaculture.
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April 14, 2006
The tag of the day is visibility.
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April 6, 2006
The tag of the day is footprint.
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March 1, 2006
The tag of the day is Appalachia.
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February 24, 2006
The tag of the day is Kwannon.
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February 11, 2006
The tag of the day is ambient findability.
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February 9, 2006
The tag of the day is mule.
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February 6, 2006
The tag of the day is wiki.
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February 5, 2006
The tag of the day is land use.
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February 3, 2006
The tag of the day is valuation.
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February 2, 2006
Today's featured query is mining + impact
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January 31, 2006
The tag of the day is energy independence.
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January 26, 2006
The tag of the day is wabi.
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January 22, 2006
The tag of the day is alma.
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January 18, 2006
Today's featured tag is brittle code.
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January 17, 2006
The tag of the day is mahalo.
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January 16, 2006
The tag of the day is I have a dream.
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January 13, 2006
The tag of the day is mirror.
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January 2, 2006
The tag of the day is Sago.
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January 1, 2006
The tag of the day is nonviolence.
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December 31, 2005
The tag of the day is thunder.
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December 30, 2005
The tag of the day is tagspeak.
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December 29, 2005
Today's featured species is Capra aegagrus hircus.
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December 28, 2005
The tag of the day is yama.
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December 27, 2005
The tag of the day is hydrology.
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December 26, 2005
The tag of the day is link pressure.
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December 22, 2005
The tag of the day is mea culpa.
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December 21, 2005
The tag of the day is ikigai.
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December 20, 2005
The tag of the day is carbon crunch.
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December 15, 2005
Today's featured excerpt is from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard:
"There are many things to see, unwrapped gifts and free surprises. The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside by a generous hand. But - and this is the point - who gets excited by a mere penny? If you follow one arrow, if you crouch motionless on a bank to watch a tremulous ripple thrill on the water and are rewarded by the sight of a muskrat paddling from its den, will you count that sight as a chip of copper only, and go on your rueful way? It is dire poverty indeed when a man is so malnourished and fatigued that he won't stoop to pick up a penny. But if you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days. It is that simple. What you see is what you get."
(Annie Dillard)
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December 12, 2005
The tag of the day is tag disambiguation.
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December 8, 2005
The tag of the day is link spill.
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December 6, 2005
The tag of the day is sprawl management.
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December 4, 2005
Today's featured species is Chinese brake fern. Today's featured brand is green label organic.
featured tags - tagcloud, homestead, off-grid, hyperaccumulation
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December 3, 2005
Today's featured farm is Faith Mountain Farm in Willis, Virginia.
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December 2, 2005
The tag of the day is tagspeak.
Today's featured farm is Brush Creek Farm in Riner, Virginia.
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December 1, 2005
The tag of the day is landmine awareness.
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November 30, 2005
The tag of the day is biodiesel.
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November 29, 2005
The tag of the day is echo.
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ideapark.org loop news for nov. 29 - Winterfest 2005 will take place at the Jacksonville Center in Floyd, Virginia this weekend. Please call (540) 745-2784 for more information on this event.
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November 28, 2005
Today's featured tag is cage free.
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ideapark.org loop news for nov. 28 - there will be a sustainable agriculture conference in Louisville, Kentucky this January organized by the Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group. The conference will take place from January 19 - 22, and will include field trips, learning sessions, and readings by Wendell Berry on Saturday night, followed by a "taste of Kentucky" dinner. learn more...
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November 27, 2005
the tag of the day is best management practice.
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November 24, 2005
the tag of the day is salt.
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ideapark.org notes for november 21, 2005
featured tags for today include compass, north star, and sustainable code.
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string = flag + light + star + traffic + language
route < hello image + string > to ideapark.org
action - tag scatter
direction - North
purpose - measure traces and map echo
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november 20, 2005
today's featured tags include generic tagging, camouflage, brandless, mu, mujino, tag scatter, fuzzy searching, memory, ikigai, and futures.
today's featured link is technorati.com.
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Today's featured link is Wal-Mart Watch. The tag of the day is dot not.
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November 18, 2005
The tag of the day is domestic peace. Today's featured author is Susan J. Daniels.
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November 17, 2005
The tag of the day is voluntary simplicity.
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November 16, 2005
The tag of the day is resource creation.
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November 13, 2005
The tag of the day is Nunavut.
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November 10, 2005
Hi folks
Today's featured text is an excerpt from a 2005 New River Current article by Tonia Moxley:
"One of six children raised by a single mother, (Sue) Daniels said she always empathized with people in society who had no power. She came to believe that what she called "direct action" was the only answer to oppression...
When she died, she was helping organize a summer of protest and education called Mountain Justice Summer that was inspired by the Civil Rights struggles of the 1960s."
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November 9, 2005
The tag of the day is folksonomy.
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November 8, 2005
The tag of the day is Appalachian ecology. Today's featured species is Phytolacca Americana.
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November 5, 2005
news - Christians for the Mountains will be hosting a conference in Charleston, West Virginia on November 11 & 12, 2005 to help raise awareness about mountaintop removal coal mining. To learn more about this event, please visit christiansforthemountains.org or call (304) 799-4137.
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November 4, 2005
The tag of the day is picoides borealis.
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November 3, 2005
The tag of the day is biodiversity.
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October 23, 2005
The tag of the day is microclimate.
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October 18, 2005
The tag of the day is bioswale.
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October 13, 2005
The tag of the day is engine preference.
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October 11, 2005
The tag of the day is hybrid vigor.
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October 10, 2005
The tag of the day is Taishi.
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October 9, 2005
Hi folks,
The death toll from this weekend's earthquake in Southern Asia has risen sharply overnight, with over 19,000 lives lost in Kashmir alone. I will be searching the web today for information on ways that citizens outside the area can become involved in humanitarian efforts to help the victims of this terrible tragedy.
Thank you for reading. --Suzy
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October 6, 2005
Hi folks,
I just got an urgent memo from Appalachian Voices about some proposed changes to the Clean Air Act:
"Appalachian Voices has just learned that the US House of Representatives will vote on FRIDAY, October 7, on a bill that will gut key provisions of the our federal clean air protections. The bill, called the “Gasoline for America’s Security Act” (H.R. 3893), would eliminate a critical part of the Clean Air Act, called new source review, that requires utilities to install new pollution control equipment when they make significant upgrades to coal-fired power plants." read more...
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October 3, 2005
The tag of the day is disintermediation.
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October 1, 2005
Today's featured farm is Weathertop Farm.
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September 26, 2005
hi folks
hope you all had a lovely weekend. hello to everyone who might be reading.
new content in the loop includes a scribbling exercise for those who are working on their phD diploma in the Dogs on Trucks Motif.
My Dogs on Trucks motif has been criticized as looking more like it belongs to the "two teeth perched atop a can of beer" motif, an observation I kind of agree with. there is a very small dogs on trucks gallery behind the counter at Gillies. those pictures are much better.
Rob at Oddfellas is very nice and his restaurant is excellent. my work will be on exhibit at the cafe there until New Years. You can pick up dogs on trucks coloring activities there too if you are so inclined. These can also be printed by clicking here.
the tag of the day is carbon storage.
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september 22, 2005
the tag of the day is preference engine.
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September 15, 2005
Today's featured artist is Mack Whatley.
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September 14, 2005
Today's featured story is Beulah's Country Donuts.
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September 12, 2005
Today's featured story is All Hail Rati's Giant Crucible of Progress!
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September 8, 2005
The tag of the day is Marsh Fork Elementary.
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September 7, 2005
Today's featured link is the Katrina Help Wiki. The tag of the day is citizen journalism.
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September 6, 2005
The tag of the day is community matching for Katrina survivors.
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September 5, 2005
The tag of the day is faith.
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September 2, 2005
Today's featured link is The Interdictor and the tag of the day is building the New Orleans diaspora.
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September 1, 2005
Today's featured link is Nola View and the tag for this link is humanitarian crisis in New Orleans.
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August 31, 2005
Countless souls have left us today, from both Iraq and the Gulf Coast of the US. Let us honor their memory with a new kind of world in which violence and reckless consumption are replaced with deep compassion and respect for human life and Creation.
Let us build the dead a memorial on every square inch of the Earth, and hope that they find our work to be a suitable acknowledgement of Grace.
May their souls rest in peace.
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August 29, 2005
Today's featured farm is Wind Rush Farm. The tag of the day is organic search engine optimization.
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August 26, 2005
Today's featured tag is IQ gender bias.
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August 24, 2005
Today's featured link is the Human Kindness Foundation and the featured tag is doing time.
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August 18, 2005
Today's featured invention is the Roundabout Play Pump. The tag of the day is alternative energy.
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August 17, 2005
hi folks,
new content in the loop today includes info on a Bucky Fuller lecture lecture that will be happening tomorrow and some photos of the "stick to your guns" art reception last week. today's featured link is The Little Guy. The featured tag is free will.
have a great day! -suzy
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August 14, 2005
Today's featured link is Coal River Mountain Watch. The tag of the day is sustainable consumption.
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August 12, 2005
Today's featured author is Fukuoka Masanobu. The tag of the day is tilth.
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August 11, 2005
Today's featured link is Homebody. The featured tag for today is fair trade.
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August 10, 2005
Today's featured link is the Lime Hollow Center for Environment and Culture. The tag of the day is environmental education.
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August 9, 2005
Hi folks,
New content in the loop today includes information on the "Stick to Your Guns" exhibit opening this Friday in Roanoke. Also of interest to Appalachian land owners and stewards is a free handbook for managing your woodlands, brought to you by the folks at Appalachian Voices.
Today's featured tag is Bloody Harlan, and the featured link is Matt Bors' Quick Guide to Mountaintop Removal.
Thanks for reading. Have a great day. --Suzy
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August 4, 2005
hi folks,
it is a lovely morning and I hope you all are well.
my scrap tree garden is looking pretty good. I still want to ID the locust-like trees I am working with. they look like dr. Seuss trees and are extremely bendy and adaptable. to say the least.
a few years ago I waged war on these trees to clear a little land for my studio. for two weeks I dug up the rhizomes out with a pickaxe and leveled the ground by hand. if I had it to do over again I don't know if I would done it that way. Even just doing it by hand I disturbed the soil a lot, and now it really shows. I have been expanding the reclaimed area recently with just a pair of snippers and the area where I used snippers vs. a pickaxe has a much nicer soil.
"Inversion tillage" is what I did, more or less, to the first area. I am learning, more and more, that this is not such a great thing for the soil. Inversion tillage, as I understand it, is sort of like putting a delicious quesadilla in a blender.
Anyway my new nibble-it-away approach was working quite well until the poison ivy started making things difficult. I sort of wish I had a big old goat to help me out here, but you can't have everything. and the deer are doing a pretty ok job with keeping the trails clear.
I added some new items to my online boutique this morning featuring "Wild is the Turkey", a picture I gave to C because she rules. anyway if you would like to see the items they are here.
Joe Kelley just started a weblog. yep. it is called the scratch house news and it looks like it is going to be pretty fascinating. look for it on the dogs on trucks loop.
Fred First is at Hindman now and he seems to be having a great time. Can't wait to read more about it.
bye, have a great day.
--Suzy
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August 3, 2005
Today's featured author is Wendell Berry. The featured tag for today is Kentucky. New & upcoming content in the loop includes information and news on shoreline preservation, blacksmithing, and slow food.
Today's featured weblog is the Jacksonville School for the Arts newsletter.
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August 2, 2005
The featured tag for today is "Scratch House News" and the featured link is the Black Mountain College Museum & Arts Center.
Featured article: Some MySpace users skittish about Fox
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August 1, 2005
Today's featured link is the Journal of Soil & Water Conservation and the featured tag is conservation tillage.
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July 22, 2005
The featured tag for today is "Marsh Fork Elementary" and the featured link is Appalachian Voices.
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July19, 2005
The featured link for today is the Prairie Writers Circle. Today's featured search tag is "gift industry + sustainability".
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July14, 2005
Today's featured link is Treehugger.com. The featured tag today is "green design".
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July12, 2005
Today's featured link is Glutter.org. The featured tag today is "critique of pure reason."
New & upcoming content in the loop includes some links and observations on permaculture, conservation tillage, and the underground democracy movement in China.
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July 6, 2005
Hi folks,
There is some new content in the loop today about sericulture, or the culture or silkworms. This industry has a fascinating history. Today's featured link is Appalshop, and the featured tag is rural renaissance.
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Tuesday, July 5, 2005
Featured tags for today:
Clean Water Act, smoking awareness, fuzzy searching, reverse desertification, culture, industry, New River Valley.
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June 29, 2005
today's featured link is the lost liberty hotel. the featured tag is fuzzy searching.
other tags: eminent domain, poetic justice, consumer responsibility, sprawl, development, consensus, supreme court, water rights, land use, management, precedent, constitution, open source, technorati.
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Ideapark.org asks readers: Why is it that "we" so often bear very little resemblance to who "they" say we are?
And how can we get that to change, not only for the better, but for the very, very, very much better?
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fresh sand. help yourself.
lateral, spatial, thought, study, proof, assessment, e-mail, multitasking, measurement, loss of brain function, speculation, net efffect, sleep deprivation, left to right.
A recent scientific study asserts that doing a few "simple" tasks on the computer (like checking your e-mail) will actually lower your cognitive abilities substantially. In fact, the study compared this loss of brain function to that of a person who has been deprived of sleep for an entire night.
Agree? disagree? Demand to see proof? Demand to speak to "The Gestalt"?
Sample answers
--Yeah, I have suspected this for a long time. E-mailling is ridiculously complicated. And it's really not safe. Ellen in Bozeman.
---Yesterday I ran across a spam-guard for the e-mail address of one of the Important Bigwigs in the Search Engine Industry. You had to pass through one of those clever bot barriers...you know the ones that say type this in, YJ9kr3? Anyway, like I said, E-mail is dying. Kendra in Western Samoa.
--I get really depressed about the Free Market sometimes, but then I remember how beautiful a thing it really is. If the Captains of Industry want to buy and sell something as priceless and intangible as pure, open human communication, and hope that the cheap paint will go undetected, they are free to throw as much money as they want at their "vision". I got my money catching mitt right here.
--a Gemini in Scotland
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"These aren't the Droids you're looking for."
This line, uttered of course by Obi-wan Kenobi, may be the best and greatest "peek" we can get at what passes for a soul in the communications industry.
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File under "theories worth investigating"... The idea that we have been so busy building up the Internet with pseudo-edifices in the grand style of Olde Commerce--virtual banks, virtual universities, virtual shopping malls--that we have completely forgotten to ask ourselves whether that musty old economic model is really worth replicating in the Dream Land that is the Internet.
It's time for us to wake up, and quit taking the math test over and over again.
Why can't the Internet be more fun, more enlightening, more relevant, more organic? And why can't that count as real work?
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Type in "science" in Google--or Technorati--and you will get plenty of info, but conspicuously missing in that data is the curious fact that when an author reaches a reader via this pathway, their language has been mathematically translated.
Isn't that amazing - and eerie - when you really stop and think about it?
"Parsing", by the way, is just another word for scanning. Or speed reading. It has to do with the way robots process the things we humans talk about.
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a note from the editor - february 6, 2006 - time and time again, I have seen "the Internet" chew up nice, fresh, wholesome content and spit it out as worthless litter, or worse.
that is why I believe we must train this little monster in constructive parsing.
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more random thoughts
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What drives us to do the things we do?
Why are we so careless sometimes? Why is there war?
Where is the rest of the Internet, and how can I find it?
How can I get it to find me?
When will they invent a new Internet?
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dear "The Internet",
I am very very very very Lazy and Ignorant, as you can see by the address below.
Do you answer questions from ignorant people?
Sincerely, Rati in (address not shown)
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reader survey--do you find search engine categories useful?
(sample answers)
--I don't think those categories are that great at all, really. Who came up with those? Can we please nix those, please? I think they don't work for you-know-what.
--Those web directories are just confusing and commercialized. And not democratic at all.
--They are just another doormat that just says GO HOME to 90% of customers. And PREPARE TO BE SCAMMED to the rest.
--Water, water, everywhere, and not a drop to drink.
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