Hmmm… although initially interesting, on closer look there does not seem much activity here. Resonates with my Smart Spiritual Software. Wonder how to rekindle this initiative.
See
Spiritual Computing – The Mindfulness/Technology Dialogue
(Via Del.icio.us Tag: spiritual.)
Excellent Holistic Quantum Relativity Glossary aiming at providing meanings for those concepts, abstractions, thoughts, observations and views in Spirituality which converge with modern Science and vice-versa.
From Slashdot:
Here is a giant chart mapping relationships among scientific paradigms, as published in the journal Nature.
Interesting to see the void between the soft human/social (red) and hard, materialistic scientific (blue) science scapes being bridged by computer and earth sciences. Wonder what will fill that void and when. Want to see the map extended to philosophy, religion and spirtuality as well.
More on http://informationesthetics.org/node/20
MIT Press Book On Open Source Now Free: “eaglemoon writes ‘MIT Press has released its book Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software as a free PDF download. The book is a collection of research essays covering topics such as open source motivation, economics, business models, software development process and tools, law, and community. Sort of like ‘Open Sources’ from academics. David Parnas, Larry Lessig, Eric von Hippel, and Clay Shirky are among the contributors.’
(Via Slashdot.)
The Business Case for Open Source Software: “An anonymous reader writes ‘An InfoWorld blog entry makes a business case for open source software, and attempts to explain the business benefits of OSS to management and business owners. The primary benefits the piece uses to argue in favor of OSS include ”’no licensing fees”’, and ”’no license keys”’. The article also argues that OSS results in ”’freedom from ‘ownership”” by software vendors. ‘Never again will you fear the BSA (Business Software Alliance) knocking on your door wanting to perform a software audit. The BSA even takes out advertisements on Google search pages for and up to $200,000 reward a disgruntled ex-employee can receive for reporting your company to the BSA! That’s quite a powerful motivator…”
(Via Slashdot.)
Me, My Soul, and I: “Writer Douglas Hofstadter elaborates on his more mind-bending ideas. By Kevin Kelly from Wired Magazine.”
(Via Wired News.)
Stephen Hawking Says Universe Created from Nothing: “mr_3ntropy writes ‘Speaking to a sold out crowd at the Berkeley Physics Oppenheimer Lecture, Hawking said yesterday that he now believes ”’the universe spontaneously popped into existence from nothing”’. He said more work is needed to prove this but we have time because ””Eternity is a very long time, especially towards the end.”” There is also a Webcast available (Realplayer or Real Alternative required).’
(Via Slashdot.)
Yes! Found a long lost book review on The Virtual Community by Howard Rheingold back thanks to Apple Spotlight. While at Sun Microsoystems, I sent the review to my fellow Mulitmedia Ambassadors and Human Interaction Engineers wordlwide on September 1st, 1994.
I was reading a Wired article on novellist Cormac McCarthy, having an office at the reknowned Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico,. This brought back memories of Stuart Kauffman, William Gibson and Howard Rheingold. All writers that have influenced my perspective. Wonderful.
Guardian Unlimited writes about Lessig as a Freedom fighter with a guilty conscience—Lawrence Lessig explains his mission to limit the cultural damage caused by copyright and intellectual property (IP) law. Of pivotal importance for the emergence for our whole world.
Relying on what’s necessary, natural, and next, Lessig finds means of supplying adequacy so that other living systems do not suffer, so humanity does not suffer as a consequence, and so the individual can retain freedom to be as her or she chooses. After all, we are what we choose in the quantum field.
Be sure to check out Lessig’s freely available online book Free Culture, using a licence drawn up by his Creative Commons project. Another one you can’t afford to miss is Flash presentation of one of Lessig’s last talks during OSCON 2002.
The reason for AardRock to also use a Creative Commons license for all its material, including source code.
Interesting cheatsheet on diabetes facts in The Netherlands published by the Diabetes Vereniging Nederland: