Interrelativity: musings about interrelatedness
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Calvinball in the U.S. Congress
Recent discussions and actions regarding rule changes in the U.S. House of Representatives Ethics Committee (over alleged improprieties by Representative Tom DeLay) and the U.S. Senate (over filibuster and cloture) remind me of one of my favorite comic strips, Calvin and Hobbes. One of the recurring themes in the strip was calvinball, a game wherein…
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Easy Living, Listening, Eating and Drinking at P&G Speakeasy
Amy and I went to dinner last night at the P and G Speakeasy Cafe, a great good place in Duvall, where everything is "handmade, homemade and never boring." We enjoyed a simple, tasty and inexpensive meal of spaghetti and meatballs, with caesar salad and garlic bread, accompanied by their last bottle of Montevina 2001…
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Call of the Mall: Mobile Phones + RFID = New Shopping Experiences
KDDI recently announced a pilot program in which their RFID-enabled mobile phones can be used in a shopping mall to provide information about stores, products and sales campaigns offered there. The program, developed in conjunction with Oki Electric Industry Company and iNAGO, is being tested at Stellar Mall, using KDDI’s new mobile phones with embedded…
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Oriah Mountain Dreamer at East West Bookshop, Sunday, April 17
Oriah Mountain Dreamer, author of The Invitation, one of the most inspiring books I’ve ever read, is appearing for a two-hour free (!) seminar at East West Bookshop in Seattle this Sunday, from 2-4pm. The title is "Creativity and the Unfolding of Your Soul: An Afternoon with Oriah Mountain Dreamer", so I imagine this will…
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Practically Creative
The first issue of Practically Creative Quarterly was published recently: "a free webzine and creative community on the grow, exploring the creative process ~ increasing creative productivity ~ enjoying the creative life." There are many inspiring short articles throughout the magazine, with sections focusing on process, craft, practicalities, creations, practice and practices, crackles and preferrals. …
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Just Tasing
Laura Sullivan narrated a report on Taser International’s new personal stun guns on NPR’s All Things Considered tonight. Given that it is April Fool’s Day, at first I thought this was some kind of a tease, but as the story went on, I realized it is true. [The next story , on "New England Suffers…
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Water Discovered on Mars!
Water On Mars Credit & Copyright: Ellen Roper (GCC) (Original source: Astronomy Picture of the Day) [via Ellen Riloff]
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The Future of Search: What We Want vs. What We Need
Dan Farber and Gary Price have some interesting things to say about a recent panel on "New Directions in Search" at the PC Forum … which brought to mind the song "You Can’t Always Get What You Want". According to these reports, panelists agreed that the main goal is to get users the information they…
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Fred Crosetto: Energy, Relationships and Latex Gloves
Fred Crosetto, the founder and Chief Energizing Officer of +Ammex Corporation ("the right protection right now"), gave an energetic and energizing presentation on "Bootstrapping: Creative Financing for Early Stage Companies" this week at a free (!) Northwest Entrepreneur Network seminar. He shared all kinds of useful insights and experiences from his 17 years of entrepreneurship;…
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Philips Polymer Vision: A Realization of Phineas J. Whoopee’s 3D Blackboard
Philips Polymer Vision recently announced a new rollable display for use with mobile devices and applications: The Polymer Vision PV-QML5 is an ultra-thin (100µm) featherweight QVGA (320 x 240 pixels) active-matrix display with a diagonal of 5 inches. When not actively used, the display can be rolled up into a small housing with a radius…