Date: October 7, 2008
Just a little something to remind any passersby that perspective is truly everything. If you want to believe the world is coming to an end, that’s fine and dandy; it’s your business. But at least do it with more of the available information under your belt. Anything less is just not good enough!
Date: October 5, 2008; Filed in Journal
In Grassroots Creativity: A Very Brief History, I mentioned that the historical nature of computers and the Internet has led to and encouraged an abundance of individual and group-based creativity online. The 90s–particularly the mid to late 90s–furthered this as the World Wide Web became more popular and affordable to the everyday public; in 1998, the AT&T company of the United States released research showing online traffic was increasing over 100% annually (Coffman & Odlyzko 1998). Desktops and browsers became more user-friendly as well, partially due to browser wars, increasing the size of both the participating group and audience in many cases.
Really, I’ve seen better stuff in teen magazines.
Date: October 4, 2008
“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.” –Thomas Jefferson
Date: October 4, 2008
Yeah, these about sum up the Internet.
Date: October 1, 2008
Date: September 28, 2008; Filed in Journal
While choosing printers and making design decisions for this self-publishing venture is difficult enough, one of the hardest choices to make has been regarding book content. What We’re Made Of has multiple purposes…. What We’re Made Of is going to be separated into three sections: Inner Self & Outside World, Belief & Understanding, and Love & Hate.
Date: September 12, 2008
Check out Weigl & Hoffmann if you like electronica or ambient music. They have a nice, soothing style. They have six tracks in their new EP, Elevate, and they’re free to download in either MP3 or OGG format.
From the website: “Subtle soundscapes, discreet guitar and piano ambiences along with breathy vocals create a contemplative atmosphere that gradually surrounds you, draws you in deeper and deeper…”
Enjoy! :)
Lelia Katherine Thomas is a 21-year-old American living in Melbourne, Australia. She journals, writes stories, creates visual artwork, takes photos and works with web design. She is a Libertarian politically, has a morbid sense of humor and really likes salty foods. More?
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Political and media-related videos for education.
Delicious/leliathomas, on October 7, 2008, 8:57 pm
"The study, published in the journal Nature, suggests the virus may have crossed from apes to humans between 1884 and 1924...Scientists believe that these 'founder events' may have involved eating monkeys infected with a similar virus."
Delicious/leliathomas, on October 6, 2008, 5:58 am
"...TOM-Skype, the version of the voice and chat program distributed in China not only blocks keywords from chat conversations, but also spies on and remotely reports the contents of Skype users' private text conversations....extensive logs on user activity, including archives of more than 166,000 censored messages from 44,000 users."
Delicious/leliathomas, on October 4, 2008, 3:19 pm
"The House is limiting e-mails from the public to prevent its websites from crashing due to the enormous amount of mail being submitted on the financial bailout bill."
Delicious/leliathomas, on October 4, 2008, 3:16 pm
"New research shows that when people perceive they have no control over a given situation, they are more likely to see illusions, patterns where none exist and even believe in conspiracy theories. The study suggests that people impose imaginary order when no real order can be perceived."
Delicious/leliathomas, on October 4, 2008, 1:56 pm
