Lumen Watt?

Beste Philips,

Nu we massaal en mondiaal overgaan op LED en andere hoogrendementsverlichting is dat dé gelegenheid om ook het bewustzijn en het gebruik van de lumen als maat voor lichthoeveelheid in te burgeren.

Gooi die Watt van haar zo prominente eerste plaats in AL jullie communicatie en laat de Watt plaats maken voor lumen op de eerste plaats en lichtkleur op de tweede plaats. Watt en rendement (lm/W) zijn ook het vermelden waard, maar de eeuwige ‘geeft net zoveel licht als een 60 W gloeilamp’ moet verdwijnen. Iedereen worstelt ermee.

We zijn tenslotte ook met z’n allen overgegaan op de euro. Aan Philips de opdracht om de mensheid op het goede been te zetten.

It makes sense and simplicity!

Zodra ik iets doe wil ik iets anders doen

Prachtig deze man. Ik herken mezelf enorm in zijn ”’Zodra ik iets doe wil ik iets anders doen”’.

Clifford Stoll could talk about the atmosphere of Jupiter. Or hunting KGB hackers. Or Klein bottles, computers in classrooms, the future. But he’s not going to. Which is fine, because it would be criminal to confine a man with interests as multifarious as Stoll’s to give a talk on any one topic. Instead, he simply captivates his audience with a wildly energetic sprinkling of anecdotes, observations, asides — and even a science experiment. After all, by his own definition, he’s a scientist: “Once I do something, I want to do something else.”

LA Times Gets Hits with Wiki Stick

LA Times Gets Hits with Wiki Stick: “

LW Timespedia

(Update: somewhat obvious April Foolery!) News of a very surprising and innovative move in journalism: The former Los Angeles Times has transitioned to become The Los Wikiless Timespedia, ‘continuously updated by the fine people of Los Angeles and the World.’

‘We tried basically all the gimmicks we know,’ said new Editor-in-Chief Tony Cahter, recently promoted from the depleted typesetting staff. ‘Different fonts. Moving Marmaduke to the front page. Everything.’

The wiki news system allows readers to enter and edit articles as they please.

‘If you see an article you don’t like or don’t agree with, just change it. Then if the next person doesn’t like that, they can change it back. We call it an editocracy.’

At least, that’s what the site said a few minutes ago. You’d better check it out yourself if you want to see what it says now, or if you want to contribute.

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(Via Grand Text Auto.)

Time according to Deepak Chopra

===Transcript of video===
Time in my view is the continuity of memory using the ego as an internal reference point. ”’When we break the barrier of ego, the self-image, we break the barrier of time.”’

So time is the separation that occurs when there is the differentiation of our consiousness into observer, process of observation and that which is observed. And then how we measure our observations through the creation of an artificial observer gives us the experience of time.

In fact, ”’there is no time—there is only eternity”’. The measurement of eternity is symbolized as the measurement of time. And, of course, how we metabolize our experience of time, is the way our bodies undergo entropy. So if we are running out of time, we literally run out of time biologically. People who say “I’m running out of time”, they have speeded up biological clocks. Faster heart rates [inaudible]. And they drop dead of premature heart attacks. They run out of time.

If you are in love time stops. The intoxication of ”’love allows you to experience unity consciousness and timelessness”’. If you are bored, time drags. And entropy is the metabolism of time.

I have a lot more to say about the nature of time, but I’m running out of time. So, see you next time, or let me know what you think.

Source: [http://www.intentblog.com/archives/2008/03/time_1.html Time]

Howard Rheingold: Way-new collaboration

Transcript of Howard Rheingold’s TED-2005 talk about the coming world of collaboration, participatory media and collective action—and how Wikipedia is really an outgrowth of our natural human instinct to work as a group. As he points out, humans have been banding together to work collectively since our days of hunting mastodons.

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Scientific Proof of the Existence of God

Prachtig interview met [http://aardnoot.nl/Amit_Gosmwami Amit Goswami] over [http://www.wie.org/j11/goswami.asp Scientific Proof of the Existence of God]. Voor mij is de ”’essentie”’ nog steeds:
:Consciousness matters™—and that’s all that matters
En dat kan je dus ”’heel letterlijk”’ nemen. Zelfs het woord ”heel” uit de vorige zin krijgt daardoor voor mij meer waarde.

Steal This Film


Steal This Film IISteal This Film [part one] is a spectacular documentary on Sweden’s piracy movement — The Pirate Bay BitTorrent site, The Pirate Bureau think-tank and The Pirate Party, a political party. Steal This Film ingeniously combines Hollywood footage, scare-interviews with Hollywood execs, Hollywood anti-piracy PSAs and footage of interviews with Swedish pirates, politicians and people on the street.

Source: [http://www.boingboing.net/2006/08/23/steal-this-movie-doc.html Steal This Movie: documentary on Swedish piracy movement] via [http://www.p2pfoundation.net/Steal_This_Film Peer-to-Peer Foundation].