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  • Any excuse to use excessive force

    Because any infraction of the law deserves complete, over the top violent response from a paramilitary police force. Ladies and gentleman, the panopticon and your tax dollars at work in the Society of Control… Police have justified this sort of… Continue reading

    Any excuse to use excessive force
  • The Lost Treasure of Da Vinci

    Leonardo da Vinci is considered by many to be one of the greatest artists who ever lived. Yet his reputation rests on only a handful of pictures – including the world’s most famous painting, the Mona Lisa. …Fiona Bruce travels… Continue reading

    The Lost Treasure of Da Vinci
  • Just two small bricks

    Wonderful talk by Ajahn Brahm. Highly recommend it. Watch, listen, contemplate. If you watch the whole talk, you will get why I decided on today’s title. Continue reading

    Just two small bricks
  • Harrowing of Hell

    I have been posting a lot of paintings on my blog. I  hope that you have taken the opportunity to follow the links of these pictures to where I first discovered them on the web. Today’s is a tease for… Continue reading

    Harrowing of Hell
  • The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things

    The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things is a painting attributed to Hieronymus Bosch, completed around 1500 or later. The painting is oil on wood panels.  The painting is presented in a series of circular images. Four small… Continue reading

    The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things
  • Daodejing 41

    #41* The person having most excellence who hears DAO practices assiduously. The person having average excellence who hears DAO only practices on occasion. The person having least excellence who hears DAO laughs at it. Yet, if DAO were not laughable,… Continue reading

    Daodejing 41
  • Daodejing 40

    #40* The motion of DAO: returning. The usage of DAO: weakening. 10,000 things grow by having. [1] Having generates from not-having . [2] *Translation by LU Wenlong & Keith Wayne Brown, ©2013. [1] Having –> 有 [Yǒu]: to have, to exist. We might put here… Continue reading

    Daodejing 40
  • The library, the cloud, and the digital scholar

    Originally posted on jbrittholbrook: Mark Carrigan and I have continued our discussion begun here about the difference between various media (in this case, blogs and Moleskine notebooks). We haven’t discussed aesthetics, yet — but, to be clear, I’m not into… Continue reading

    The library, the cloud, and the digital scholar