August 11

Soda Can Shake Up


Yoga Journal
Three's A Charm


NATO Builds History's 1st Global Army


Horse Flies and Meteors


The Millenium Project


Touchable Holography


KurzweilAI.net Newsletter
Accelerating Intelligence

July 21

Improvisation on "Improvisation"


Lenswork Podcast #546

Yoga Journal - "In the Zone"
Yoga Journal: "Riding Your Breath Home"
Creative Pro.com Newsletter
Dick Cheney's "Executive Assassination Ring".
Was British Weapons Expert Dr. David Kelly a Target?
KurzweilAI.net Newsletter
The Crowd Is Wise (When It’s Focused)
Mind Uploading Home PageMind Uploading.org
Harnessing Crowds: Mapping the Genome of Collective Intelligence (pdf-download)
Bacteriophage
Pirates and Revolutionaries
Scott Wollschelger
Would you give up your immortality to ensure the success of a posthuman world?
Ben Goertzel's BlogNASA Newsletter


Spent some time today going through a wide variety of things but, the one that really "got me" was the info on "mind uploading." OMG!!! It reminded me of a meeting I had a few months ago with a guy that works with an online virtual reality company similar to Second Life. We were having an interesting talk about futuristic kinds of things. I couldn't believe it when he casually told me that people will eventually be loaded onto discs! I was thinking, "What?! Did I hear him correctly?" Oh my, we're living in interesting times...

July 16

Reading/Newsletters

Catching up on newsletter reading today. First thing I ran into was this story about a biomass-eating robot being created for the Pentagon and D.A.R.P.A. by Robot Technology Inc. After seeing my first "Terminator" film last week and also Transformers, I'm not surprised. Couldn't believe how "out in the open" they were in those movies about the "predictive programming."
New Military Robots Could Feed On Corpes
Gizmodo
Killer Military Robots
Robot Technology, Inc Official Website
Robot Technology, Inc Official Website EATR Project
Intelligent/Manless Vehicle Project
United Nations TV
Cell Magazine
NASA-Wide Awake in the Sea of Tranquillity
Lenswork Podcast #544
When There Is Nothing Left To Prove
MixLine
RAND News letter
Ray Kurweil Newsletter
Open Culture
Strangeness In The Skies
Japan Inc
Towards a Solution to the Debt Crisis in California
The State could walk away & create its own credit machine
creative prose
NAPP Newsletter
Iconoculture

Some ask me why I would want to read about all of these different subjects. I ask, "Why not?" I'm curious. It's the same as walking into a magazine shop and picking out 5-10 magazines of seemingly unrelated topics. Actually, for me part of the fun is seeing how connected many of these subjects really are. Plus, I'm led down roads and streams of thought that I could have never imagined.

June 16

Zen Mind, Beginners' Mind - Suzuki
Started thinking about this book again last week. During that time, I was getting ahead on this blog and started entering words and/or phrases of things I might want to include in the near future and saving them as drafts. I listened to a LENSWORK podcast and read the Yoga Journal newsletter this morning and was surprised to find that both had mentioned Suzuki's "Zen Mind, Beginners' Mind." Then I opened this draft I'd been saving and I had "Zen Mind, Beginners Mind - Sukuki entered into today's blog. Wow, talking about serendipity!

Food
Blueberry/banana juice
Made a new juice this morning. Really getting into blueberries this week!

Interviews
Sonny Rollins Interview

Musician Sonny Rollins from Texas Monthly Talks on Vimeo.

Sonny Rollins' Videos

Newsletters
MAC/LIFE Newsletter

YOGA NEWSLETTER

NASA Science Newsletter for June 15, 2009
With NASA poised to launch the world's most famous treadmill (COLBERT) to the International Space Station, an astronaut describes what it's like to run in space where sweat floats and there is no gravity to hold your feet to the ground.



Grid
http://www.aclu.org/pizza/images/screen.swf

Listening
http://www.lenswork.com/podcast/LW0535%20-%20Examining%20Our%20Habits.mp3
http://www.lenswork.com/podcast/LW0536%20-%20Repeat%20After%20Me%20-%20Spotting%20is%20Fun.mp3

United Nations TV


Water powered car

Websites
Marco Mancini's Magnet Jazz
Live at Time and Style