"Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J. (28 July 1844 – 8 June 1889), was an English poet, Roman Catholic convert, and Jesuit priest, whose 20th-century fame established him posthumously among the leading Victorian poets. His experimental explorations in prosody (especially sprung rhythm) and his use of imagery established him as a daring innovator in a period of largely traditional verse."
"The ABC universal commercial electric telegraphic code
By William Clauson- Thue
Edition: 5
Published by Fisher, 1873
Original from Oxford University
Digitized Sep 20, 2006
1400 pages"
"Lochaven regularly undertake manufacturing projects for the film industry, most notably the Harry Potter movies. Warner Brothers have purchased our Lochaven of Scotland branded school cardigans, jumpers and tank tops to be worn by the cast and extras for every film in the Harry Potter series. We supply the costume department with made to measure garments for the principal actors and regular sizes for the extras. The garments are all labelled "Lochaven Of Scotland" so look out for us on the silver screen in the next thrilling movie, Harry Potter and the Half- Blood Prince!!"
"Slow Food is an idea, a way of living and a way of eating. It is a global, grassroots movement with thousands of members around the world that links the pleasure of food with a commitment to community and the environment."
taking lines from nature and forming signs
giving many meanings to make a witch’s ring
wealth worthy of kings to be shared with all
not greedily hoarded hidden in disused feast hall
noble lands descending generations sanguine
skill past from past to present hands by wielders
misty lands unknown by eyes but never forgotten
old grey wanderer giving gifts of
poetry and power, meaning and magic
prophesy and purpose, warning and wyrd
with anguish and wonder taken up
won them and given then away
one aett at a time cast all three
rist and rede, red and right
carved counsel carried closely
godly golden gift given
behold beautiful and good is true
believe true and meaningful is sacred
know therefore sacred is certainly real
speaking runes reveal secrets
opposites alight with fire and crusted ice
outside fractured inside and edges sharp
take them up today before the throne
be chased by yesterday and tomorrow
hunted by thought and memory
but receive from them in turn
permanent marks of meaning
for all to drink and all to think
all awake from sleeping soundly
renewed and refreshed
paid in full for service with hospitality
understanding the true test is to teach
now go pour the mead of inspiration
filling the goblet of life on this earth
rhymes of noble and valiant word and deed
riding forth in a gallop on aett hooves
drawing a chariot across time three times
through what was, what is, and what will be
bringing forward for all beings ever
the good, beautiful, true and meaningful
sacred gift taken, given and renewed
"openc2e is a free and open-source game engine designed to be compatible with the various engines used in the Creatures series of artificial life games.
It allows you to play games such as Creatures, Creatures 2, Creatures 3, Docking Station and more, on many different platforms. You can even create your own games! It is being actively developed by an international team of Creatures hobbyists, and anyone can modify it under the terms of the GPL."
"Long long ago, villagers and nursemaids spun stories, handing them down from generation to generation. Then collectors like the Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault came along, jotted them down, and transformed them into literature.
That's one old story line about fairy tales. To hear Ruth B. Bottigheimer tell it, that story is itself a fairy tale."
"Excerpted from The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship courtesy of Riverhead Books, a division of Penguin Group (USA).
In his latest book, The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship (Riverhead Books, 2009), poet and business consultant David Whyte proposes that our current understanding of work-life balance is too simplistic. 'People find it hard to balance work with family, family with self, because it might not be a question of balance. Some other dynamic is in play, something to do with a very human attempt at happiness that does not quantify different parts of life and then set them against one another.'
In the following excerpt, Whyte suggests a more integrated understanding of our interdependent marriages with others, with our work, and with ourselves."
"Create and study flashcards – alone or with your friends
Cobocards are virtually created flashcards. You can print them and study offline, edit them again and again, compare with older versions, check the status of your knowledge, upload pictures and graphs, include formula with LaTeX, share your flashcards with friends, set a deadline for exams,…"
"Whatever happened to the Muse? She was once the female figure — deity, Platonic ideal, mistress, lover, wife — whom poets and painters called upon for inspiration. Thus Homer in the Odyssey, the West's first great work of literary art: 'Sing to me of the man, Muse, of twists and turns driven time and again off course.' For hundreds of years, in one form or another, the Muse's blessing and support were often essential to the creation of art.
Poets stopped invoking the muse centuries ago — eventually turning instead to caffeine, alcohol and amphetamines — but painters, musicians, and even choreographers have celebrated their actual female inspirers in their work up until recent times. And now, we learn, having a muse isn't a benefit restricted to artists."
"yahoo2mbox is a small Perl script which retrieves all messages from a mailing list archive at Yahoo! Groups (there is a missing copyright sign somewhere here probably) and stores them into a local file in MBOX which is recognized by all Unix mail readers and good many of other ones."
"But for the players, these routines 'bring order into a world in which players have little control,' writes anthropologist George Gmelch in a paper titled Baseball Magic. 'And sometimes practical elements in routines produce tangible benefits, such as helping the player concentrate.' Gmelch notes that 'A ballplayer may ritualize any activity–eating, dressing, driving to the ballpark–that he considers important or somehow linked to good performance.'
And in this, the rituals performed by baseball players aren't all that different from the habits of productive programmers."
After months, I received a reply to a message I sent to Sen. Merkley. Only, when I responded, the address from which “Sen. Merkley”’s messages was sent apparently is not accepting e-mail:
<Senator_Merkley@Merkley.senate.gov>: host
a-ess-sen3s.senate.gov[156.33.195.218] said: 550 5.1.1
<Senator_Merkley@Merkley.senate.gov>… User unknown (in reply to RCPT TO
command)
Yeah, so much for having a voice …
Dear Sir,
Thank you for the response. But, with all do respect, in regards to:
We must also take action to address the root cause of our financial crisis, the housing market
The housing market is a symptom of a much deeper issue that causes continued repeating cycles of boom-bust inherent in a financial system that rewards and encourages rampant speculation. We are addicted to finding the next Gold Rush, and until this fundamental issue is resolved in our financial system, regulatory structure and moreover our collective constitution as a people, we will continue to find our selves in such predicaments. Further, the very response to such a crisis should not, and to be truly a response to the core issue must not, reward those responsible for the crisis or to aid and abet the further concentration of wealth to those with institutionally and systemically unequal power in the market. Conditioning the market must be the duty of good government even if this means abrogating prior transactions or contracts.
I wish you well in the endeavour of remaining idealistic in the face of organizational, institutional, and systemic resistance to progressive ideals on this and other issues. For all our sakes, I hope you are able to do so as my governmental representative in the Senate.
"The MIT SLOAN MANAGEMENT, SPRING 2009 Review asked more than 75 global leaders and sustainability thinkers the question, "What will organizations need to be good at in order to thrive in the emerging sustainability economy?" This is the beginning of a wider ranging study that will be published in the fall of 2009.
The answers generated 8 principles, ones that I agree with."
"It turns out that Dorothy could have gone home at any time during the movie! But if Glinda had just told her that clicking her ruby slippers together would teleport her home, Dorothy would have been unable to believe it. She had to learn it for herself or she could never learn it."
"Aside from a few 'developer's favorite' quests, it's very hard to find the 'fun but not exploitative' missions, because they get rated poorly by users and disappear into the miasma of mediocrity.
This was not what the designers hoped for. Somehow they had convinced themselves that the number of exploiters would be relatively low — certainly not the vast majority of the users. But they were wrong, and now they're stuck between a rock and a hard place."
"So the developers are creating a chilling effect on their own content generator. Now it’s risky for players to even use user-created quests."
"Douglas Whitehead embarks on a remarkable 6000-mile bike ride to India. Follow his epic journey here with his weekly blog and a Google Map of his route."
"Thus, the first hackerspaces fit best into a countercultural topography consisting of squat houses, alternative cafes, farming cooperatives, collectively run businesses, communes, non-authoritarian childcare centres, and so on.
All of these established a tight network for an alternative lifestyle within the heart of bourgeois darkness."
"Esoteric writer, speaker and the United State Deputy Grand Master of the O.T.O. Lon Milo DuQuette joins us on the program to discuss Aleister Crowley, Enochian Magick, the DVD series "The Great Work", The Thoth Tarot Deck, Freemasonry and much more. Topics Discussed: Human Consciousness, Losing the Ego, Western and Eastern Mysticism, A.M.O.R.C., Psychedelic drugs, O.T.O., Builders of the Adytum, B. O. T. A., The Toth Tarot Card Deck, The Fool Card, Aleister Crowley and Frieda Harris, Paganini, Was Crowley a Satanist? Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Vedanta Society, Mountain Climbing Expedition, the Bloody Sacrifice, Sacrifice of a Male Child, Veiled Terminology for Masturbation, The Composition of the Thoth Tarot Card, Graphic Technique Projective Synthetic Geometry, Euclid Geometry, Nuit, Hadit, The Star Goddess, Ra-Hor-Kuit and much more."
