John Griogair Bell's Blog http://blog.arlecchino.org Myth, Metaphor and Meaning-making Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Tweets for 2010-09-02 http://blog.arlecchino.org/2010/09/02/tweets-for-2010-09-02/ http://blog.arlecchino.org/2010/09/02/tweets-for-2010-09-02/#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:00:00 +0000 Twitter http://blog.arlecchino.org/2010/09/02/tweets-for-2010-09-02/
  • John Lithgow's consistent willingness to blow the doors off safe acting choices is awesome. He's always been one of my fav actor's actors. #
  • And, Patrick Stewart & David Tennant in Hamlet have me in a complete tizzy, placing it in a continuum of honor w/ Branagh's & Williamson's. #
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  • In the Crossfire: Adventures of a Vietnamese Revolutionary (Ngo Van)
    "Although the Vietnam War is still well known, few people are aware of the decades of struggles against the French colonial regime that preceded it, many of which had no connection with the Stalinists (Ho Chi Minh’s Communist Party). The Stalinists were ultimately victorious, but only after they systematically destroyed all the other oppositional currents.

    This book is the story of those other movements and revolts, caught in the crossfire between the French and the Stalinists, told by one of the few survivors."

    (tags: history secrets books)
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  • s/Nercore/Nerdcore/ #
  • Not just the new Looney Labs card game, but now Telltale Games is doing Back to the Future: http://www.telltalegames.com/nbcuni #
  • The Back to the Future card game, FYI: http://wunderland.com/LooneyLabs/BTTF/Default.html #
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  • BBC News – Charles Darwin's ecological experiment on Ascension isle
    "A lonely island in the middle of the South Atlantic conceals Charles Darwin's best-kept secret.

    Two hundred years ago, Ascension Island was a barren volcanic edifice.

    Today, its peaks are covered by lush tropical "cloud forest".

    What happened in the interim is the amazing story of how the architect of evolution, Kew Gardens and the Royal Navy conspired to build a fully functioning, but totally artificial ecosystem.

    By a bizarre twist, this great imperial experiment may hold the key to the future colonisation of Mars."

    (tags: biology ecology environment evolution history science)
  • The Differences Are Similar // News // Notre Dame Magazine // University of Notre Dame
    "The reader acquainted with the history of immigration will recognize this rant not as the post-9/11 script of a right-wing talk show host bashing Islam and Muslims, but as the mantra of 19th century nativists decrying the hordes of Roman Catholics invading New York, Boston, Baltimore and points west."

    "Indeed, it is their confrontation with 'modernity' that provides Catholicism and Islam with a fascinating and potentially historic conversation starter. Unlike Protestant Christians, Roman Catholics share with Muslims a historical memory of the ancient and medieval eras — and the precedents they set for themselves and others during ages of faith-driven conquest and political-cultural sovereignty."

    "Genuine hospitality to the other, while respecting differences, nonetheless entails the risk of being transformed by the encounter, even if that transformation is understood as a richer, more compassionate appropriation of one’s own deepest beliefs and convictions."

    (tags: history patterns religion culture)
  • Writer Neal Stephenson Unveils His Digital Novel The Mongoliad – NYTimes.com
    "Author Neal Stephenson has been credited for inspiring today’s virtual world startups with his novel Snow Crash. Now he’s launching a startup himself: Subutai, where he is co-founder and chairman.

    The company, based in Seattle and San Francisco, has developed what it calls the PULP platform for creating digital novels. The core of the experience is still a text novel, but authors can add additional material like background articles, images, music, and video. There are also social features that allow readers to create their own profiles, earn badges for activity on the site or in the application, and interact with other readers."

    (tags: books technology)
  • Subutai Corporation
    "The Mongoliad is a new kind of serialized novel, created by Neal Stephenson, and written by Neal, Greg Bear, Nicole Galland, Mark Teppo, and a number of other great authors. It will be told on the web and via custom apps on iPad, iPhone, Kindle, and Android, and will be something of an experiment in post-book publishing and storytelling."
    (tags: books publishing technology)
  • Philosophy Now | An Amoral Manifesto (Part I)
    "In a word, this philosopher has long been laboring under an unexamined assumption, namely, that there is such a thing as right and wrong. I now believe there isn’t."
    (tags: philosophy)
  • Does Your Language Shape How You Think? – NYTimes.com
    "Eventually, Whorf’s theory crash-landed on hard facts and solid common sense, when it transpired that there had never actually been any evidence to support his fantastic claims. The reaction was so severe that for decades, any attempts to explore the influence of the mother tongue on our thoughts were relegated to the loony fringes of disrepute. But 70 years on, it is surely time to put the trauma of Whorf behind us. And in the last few years, new research has revealed that when we learn our mother tongue, we do after all acquire certain habits of thought that shape our experience in significant and often surprising ways."
    (tags: culture epistemology language linguistics psychology science)
  • Creating a Staging WordPress Blog for Testing | OMNINOGGIN
    "Phew! I didn’t think it would be this extensive when I first imagined making a staging WordPress site."
    (tags: wordpress web development)
  • How to (easily) Sandbox WordPress and Kick back with Plugins, Themes And Hacks | tunequest: music reviews and itunes too!
    "Then, like lightning or a side-swipe, I was struck by an idea: what if I set up a subdomain with which to stage my new design, complete with an autonomous, duplicate copy of my entire WordPress database? To my surprise, it turned out to be much more simple than I had assumed it would be. A couple plug-ins was all I needed to replicate my site in a snap. I was quickly able to populate the staging site with all my existing content: posts, comments, images… everything needed to make sure that the new design would work."
    (tags: web development wordpress)
  • Three arguments for the consciousness of cephalopods
    "They may be tasty when you fry them up, but evidence is mounting that cephalopods like octopuses and squid possess consciousness."
    (tags: octopus science evil intelligence)
  • Whitechapel – ULTIMATE NERD REMAKE/REMODEL: The Thirteenth Doctor
    "A Time Lord can regenerate twelve times before dying. Thirteen incarnations in all.

    Design the thirteenth incarnation of the Doctor.

    You may additionally redesign the DOCTOR WHO logo, the TARDIS and other elements of the property should you so wish."

    (tags: art diy scifi)
  • Shark Week at Arcimoto, Starring Nathan Fillion and Jon Huertas | Arcimoto
    "Actor Nathan Fillion and Castle co-star Jon Huertas flew up to our little city of Eugene early Saturday to kick the tires and take our latest prototype out on the road."
    (tags: transport environment Oregon)
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  • Home again, home again, jiggity jig! #
  • Spandex Moose is Nercore: "‘Cos I spin these rhymes for my maths crew boys, Yo Pythagoras, make some noise!" http://tinyurl.com/2b45v4t #
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  • Bus P666 going to Red Lion, but does it pass by the White Eagle conference center? #
  • "Whatever you hear, it isn't true." #
  • "Tell Mommy exactly where you helped." #
  • So the reason Gary Indiana tanked was they elected an African-American mayor?! Kinda wanna move there now … Fight the white flight. #
  • @maxomai yeah, I kinda thought that too! Curious to hear the other suggestion. in reply to maxomai #
  • Oh, Lakeshore Dr in the wee hours! I feel like I'm in a long lost episode of Night Stalker! #
  • "That man has more issues than National Geographic." #
  • He asked me to tell you, "if you ride a bike or motorbike, wear a helmet. It will save you life." #
  • Bummer that the Oriental Institute Museum is closed on my one free day … Field Museum it is, then! #
  • Only people of colour behind the counter, and I have not yet seen even one single patron who is. #
  • There was a gang of at least thirty tourists on Segways that passed by on my way in. Most I've ever seen, er, of Segways. #
  • Once again, there are two super cute German tourist girls at a sight I'm visiting. How do they always know when I'm traveling and where?! #
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  • If that vagina is eight miles wide, there'll be a moon river, oh, yeah … #
  • "wider than a mile, I'll cross you in style, some day" #
  • Gonna use Pinocchio's nose as a wand. Just snap it off; it'll grow back. It's a renewable resource! #
  • "pardon me, but I appear to be on fire." "oh, rocky! again?!" #
  • Evanston, Chicago-lite. Tastes great, less killing. #
  • "I do declare that to be the best jest of the morning!" "huzzah!" #
  • "I see no sign of Free Will here. I guess I'll have to pay." #
  • "Nothing says breakfast like warm beer, leftover pizza, scotch, coffee and pita bread!" "It's the continental breakfast of OTO!" #
  • "You can't carpet bomb hipsters. It's a basic point of military doctrine." #
  • "How could that be bad? What's the worst that can happen?" #
  • They took the last guy out of here in an ambulance. This is going to be AWESOME! #
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  • @MacForce lies, damn lies and statistics. The web is significantly less dead than Apple ever was predicted to be … in reply to MacForce #
  • The intricacies of a tiny old Otis with manual doors and an accordion gate are delightful, and doubly so since this is momentously my first! #
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  • Not everything is a way to fleece the rubes, he said while picking my pocket. #
  • Flight 686, row 6 … So close! #
  • The swaying at eye level of the pleated privacy skirt between my row and first-class was a little too like 3 hrs of upskirt for comfort. #
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  • What Do The Buttons On The PlayStation Controller Mean?
    "The triangle refers to viewpoint; I had it represent one's head or direction and made it green. Square refers to a piece of paper; I had it represent menus or documents and made it pink. The circle and X represent 'yes' or 'no' decision-making and I made them red and blue respectively. People thought those colors were mixed up, and I had to reinforce to management that that's what I wanted."
    (tags: symbolism design)
  • Quarter After Eight, Issue 15
    "Zakes Mda’s Cion / Review by William Breeze"
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    I’m helping to organize this event, and it’s going to be great. Richard Kaczynski, author of the newly revised and expanded Perdurabo: The Life of Aleister Crowley, is coming to Sekhet-Maat Lodge 1409 SE Stark in Portland for a lecture and book signing on Thursday, Sept 16th at 7:30pm (Doors open at 6:30pm).

    This will be a free event!

    For more information: Perdurabo: The Life of Aleister Crowley.

    About the Lecture

    This fascinating and informative lecture will begin with an overview of the life of Aleister Crowley and then the audience will have the unique opportunity to select which parts of Crowley’s interesting life they are most curious to discuss in depth (poet, painter, mountaineer, occultist, etc). Richard Kaczynski will be able to cover as many of these special topics as time allows. This will then be followed by a book signing where attendees can have their copies of Richard Kaczynski’s newly revised and updated Perdurabo: The Life of Aleister Crowley and other books signed by the author.

    About Perdurabo: The Life of Aleister Crowley

    “Richard Kaczynski’s Perdurabo: the Life of Aleister Crowley is the one biography that is absolutely necessary for anyone who wishes to know more about one of the most creative, seminal, and misunderstood figures of the last hundred years.” —David Tibet, founder of Current 93

    “This is not only the most carefully-researched, detailed, and informative biography of Crowley yet written but also a remarkable insight into the nature of magic itself.” —Ronald Hutton, author of The Triumph of the Moon

    The name “Aleister Crowley” instantly conjures visions of diabolic ceremonies and orgiastic indulgences—and while the sardonic Crowley would perhaps be the last to challenge such a view, he was also much more than “the Beast,” as this authoritative biography shows. Perdurabo (the magical name Crowley chose when inducted into the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn) traces Crowley’s remarkable journey from his birth as the only son of a wealthy lay preacher to his death in a boarding house as the world’s foremost authority on magick. Along the way, he rebels against his conservative religious upbringing; befriends famous artists, writers, and philosophers (and becomes a poet himself ); is attacked for his practice of “the black arts”; and teaches that science and magick can work together. While seeking to spread his infamous philosophy of “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law,” Crowley becomes one of the most notorious figures of his day. Based on Richard Kaczynski’s twenty years of research, and including previously unpublished biographical details, Perdurabo paints a memorable portrait of the man who inspired the counterculture and influenced generations of artists, punks, wiccans, and other denizens of the demimonde.

    Perdurabo: The Life of Aleister Crowley - lecture & book signing with Richard Kaczynski - Thu Sep 16, 2010 e.v. - Sekhet-Maat Lodge

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  • Every once in a while, you just have to check … there might be a monkey sneaking up behind you. #
  • Someone from the Portland Timbers called just now to check if I enjoyed the game I attended a month & 1/2 ago. "It was fun." "Kthxbai!" #
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  • The feline war on literacy continues … "No more Crowley for you!" http://campl.us/hJW #
  • "To meow! To meow!" http://campl.us/hJX #
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  • Looking into the history of the Frito Bandito Song, I've discovered A Collection of Sea Songs and Ditties from the Stories of Dave E. Jones #
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  • cornelius comanns: bufalino
    "'bufalino' by german industrial designer cornelius comanns is a small camper which is equipped to meet the basic needs of one person. the concept behind the project is to offer absolute flexibility during periods of travel."
    (tags: design transport minimalism)
  • notext
    (tags: storytelling)
  • Sea Songs and Ditties by Dave E. Jones (1928)
    "Below is the raw OCR of A Collection of Sea Songs and Ditties of from the Stores of Dave E. Jones. If you wish to verify the text below, please download the PDF of the scanned pages."
    (tags: history)
  • Folklore from the Jack Horntip Collection
    "There are children's, university and drinking songs, toasts, recitations, and even some graffiti on this website. We have an extensive online collection of books and manuscripts and recordings which we have found useful for research."
    (tags: history)
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  • Tofu pot pie @whiffies and V poutine @potatochampion … I've got food in me now! Another round for all of my friends! #
  • But no catnip at the co-op … Whatever will my cat smoke now?! #
  • @slumberland mei*< so's salvia divinorum! in reply to slumberland #
  • Srsly there's a keyword bot for "poutine"!? #
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  • Introversion: Steam sale saved our company | News
    This is a really fascinating and frightening look behind the curtain for what it really is like for a game developer behind all the apparent success and so forth. Introversion has had a rough life but done great work.
    (tags: games videogames interview secrets)
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  • And no info via any news outlet … Lame! #
  • Finally, a tiny bit of info on the power outage: http://bit.ly/9iZzMX #
  • And, power is back … And now it is off again! #
  • And power is back again. #
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  • I picked up a papercraft Tomb of Christian Rosenkreutz today via http://tinyurl.com/ygr6qyv (Posted it to @hermeticlibrary back in Nov '09) #
  • @sexualcabinetry Sounds keen. Make two sets, send me one! in reply to sexualcabinetry #
  • Power is out Tony entire block, maybe more … #
  • Signals at 82nd and division are out, and also at the intersection further out. #
  • PGE numbers completely busy … #
  • Signals near MAX max out, but is it still running? #
  • No apparent service alerts via
    Trimet … Yet #
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  • Ultraviolet light reveals how ancient Greek statues really looked
    "The color? Always something tacky."
    (tags: ancient greek art history)
    • ]]>     http://blog.arlecchino.org/2010/08/20/links-for-2010-08-20/feed/ 0     So, basically, a cure for pain … http://blog.arlecchino.org/2010/08/19/so-basically-a-cure-for-pain/ http://blog.arlecchino.org/2010/08/19/so-basically-a-cure-for-pain/#comments Thu, 19 Aug 2010 07:35:41 +0000 John Bell http://blog.arlecchino.org/?p=4238 “Obviously, prevention is preferable to early intervention; moreover, although population strategies are important, they are ideally supplemented with preventive interventions that can be used over long periods of time in targeted individuals who do not yet exhibit even nonclinical symptoms. Clearly, pharmacologic approaches are not appropriate, and given the evidence for serotonin’s role in the etiology and treatment of depression, nonpharmacologic methods of increasing serotonin are potential candidates to test for their ability to prevent depression. … Four strategies that are worth further investigation … ” [via]

    1. Don’t Worry Be Happy — Bobby McFerrin

    2. Bright Lights, Big City — Jimmy Reed

    3. Physical (You’re So) — Nine Inch Nails

    4. Eat It — “Weird Al” Yankovic

    1 + 2 + 3 + 4 = Cure For Pain — Morphine

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  • I accidentally spilled on the bench at Fresh Pot in Powell's on Hawthorne and, when wiped, my napkin was solid black with grime. Ewwwwwww! #
  • The menu item for the "vegon" combo at Toney Bento is way more awesome now after Scott Pilgrim … #
  • I just read somewhere "heroine addicted" … Ha! Yeah, you and me both, brother! #
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  • Merlin and Nimue « Amanda Sledz
    "We’re both drugged with faery blood and capable of colorful things that inform treasure hunts and tower falls and fairy tale shivering."
    (tags: writing author storytelling retelling)
  • William Blake's picture of God | Mark Vernon | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
    "Blake loathed the deistic, natural religion associated with Newton and Bacon. He called it 'soul-shuddering.' Materialism he dismissed as 'the philosophy in vogue.' He thought the Enlightenment had created a false deity for itself, one imagined by Rousseau and Voltaire as projected human reason. The 'dark Satanic mill' of Jerusalem are the mills that 'grind out material reality', as Peter Ackroyd writes in his biography of Blake, continuing: 'These are the mills that entrance the scientist and the empirical philosopher who, on looking through the microscope or telescope, see fixed mechanism everywhere.'"

    "His illustrations map the spiritual drama he envisaged every person undergoing. Their 'truth' is revealed in so far as they engage you – and that they do so by unsettling, by disturbing."

    (tags: criticism museum exhibit art history)
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  • Maybe this is the source of the "Sequim Hole"? http://www.jdholmes.com/ (No references!? The Sequim Hole is a mythical, weather phenomenon.) #
  • So, I think the reason Scott Pilgrim isn't doing so well at the box office is because it is TOO FREAKIN AWESOME. </fanboy> #
  • The climate difference between outside and the conditioned inside is causing fog to form in my bathroom when I leave that window open! #
  • "remember what the dormouse said" #
  • @WeiserBooks there should be an Egyptian purity test geekcode for that in reply to WeiserBooks #
  • @WeiserBooks it's like let's make a deal. If you've sinned, and loud and proud about it, there's a special 2nd door in the duat for you … in reply to WeiserBooks #
    • ]]>     http://blog.arlecchino.org/2010/08/17/tweets-for-2010-08-17/feed/ 0     Adianoeta http://blog.arlecchino.org/2010/08/17/adianoeta/ http://blog.arlecchino.org/2010/08/17/adianoeta/#comments Wed, 18 Aug 2010 01:51:29 +0000 John Bell http://blog.arlecchino.org/?p=4220 Adianoeta, n. From the Greek for ‘unintelligible’, an expression with both an obvious and another subtle, or even esoteric, meaning; like an allegory or double entendre [via, also, et]. Presumably a – dia – noeta might be translated as, something like, “not through things known” [see].

    Amusingly and awesomely, therefore, the word adianoeta is itself an adianoeta, since it implies both that a thing has a secondary esoteric meaning, but also, more subtly, that a thing is unintelligible.

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  • Went to the vegetarian Vietnamese restaurant near me for food, and ended up learning about the http://www.jadebuddha.org.au/en/ #
  • Leftovers and posters! http://campl.us/gPG #
  • Watching Don Ho's Shock The Monkey http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5WOAxu28C0 (It's Frater Puck's fault) #
  • Pilates on Broadway is having an Open House at 2615 NE Broadway
    on Sat, Sept 24th, 2010 from noon-8pm http://pilatesonbroadwaypdx.com/ #
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  • Four People (and a Dog) Living in 180 Square Feet House Tour | Apartment Therapy San Francisco
    (tags: design diy minimalism)
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  • Rune fonts
    (tags: fonts typography)
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  • @feliciaday come visit @potatochampion in Portland, OR instead for great poutine! in reply to feliciaday #
  • Wow. Listening to a DJ remix of IZ's Somewhere over the Rainbow at http://tinyurl.com/36a8m9x Actually, it's kind of a unicorn chaser … #
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  • "However, the number of foxy poses that Leia would go into were fairly limited." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS2oJm3__48 #
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