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Daodejing 34
#34* DAO (Great Way) everywhere. Left or right, all around. On It, the 10,000 entities† relying nurturing, never rejecting. Achieving completion without needing recognition. Feeding the 10,000 without being the master. Forever without desire: It can be called small. The 10,000 returning to it and never is it their master:…
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Article: Composing Your Thoughts – Issue 2: Uncertainty
Very intriguing e-journal. Composing Your Thoughts – Issue 2: Uncertainty http://nautil.us/issue/2/uncertainty/composing-your-thoughts
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A Discussion With Cryptome
Fascinating interview over at Gawker… Gawker: Snowden told the Guardian that in leaking these documents he wanted to reveal the “architecture of oppression.” You’re both architects—what does that term mean to you? Young: People take it metaphorically, but we think he means the actual, physical infrastructure. That’s how I took…
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Putting ‘Yeezus’ Aside: Jasiri X’s Urgent Spreadable Media by Mark Anthony Neal | NewBlackMan (in Exile)
In a celebrated and much remarked upon three-minute spot that aired during Game 5 of the NBA finals, artist and entrepreneur Jay Z remarked “we don’t have any rules, everybody’s trying to figure it out. That’s why the internet is like the Wild West…the Wild, Wild West.” It was an…
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Hymn to Pleasure
Originally posted on Glorialana Magazine: Hello God! Thank You for Friday. Today is going to be your happy Friday because we will immerse in the city of pleasure. This is Vienna. I have been in Vienna and I must say this city is the hymn to pleasure and “the only…
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Daodejing 33
#33* Knowing others: lucidity. Knowing self: brilliance.† Defeating others: strength. Defeating self: discipline. Contentedness: wealth. Perseverance: will. Never losing self: endurance. Dead yet unforgotten: longevity. †The characters translated in these two lines both contain the glyph for sun. Lucidity is the combination of “know” and “sun”. Brilliance is the combination…
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and – or
“and” – the quality of having “or” – the quality of not-having a note struck or plucked, blown or sung… having sound: hearing having context: recognizing having start: grasping having finish: letting-go a note giving way to silence which gives way to another note the second encircling the first, sound gives up…
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“Ode to Joy”
Originally posted on S.'. E.'. F.'.: And yet we cannot dispense with Special Relativity either, because the mathematics there is equally flawless and the experiments are legion that confirm it. Two solutions have been proposed and both assume that the “communication” involved in Bellian transmissions does not involve energy, since it is energy that cannot…
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Atlas of True Names
Cool project. Finds the etymology of over 3000 place names and renders them in a new atlas. Very much worth a look see. Atlas of True Names.

