http://nodatasource.com curious news for curious times Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:57:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://nodatasource.com/2009/10/30/1713/ Wow, building blocks of cardboard, that form platforms that you can stand on!  It's like foldable balsa wood!!  Check out swissmiss on bloxes.  http://nodatasource.com/2008/03/10/awesomeness-of-bloxes/ You remember Hoffman's opus, "Steal This Book", a manifesto for all things anti-establishment, urging future readers to go ahead and break the legs I'm standing on.  There was a similar one called Steal This Computer Book released by O'Reilly, which I thought was kinda a good subtle reference to the past.  I ... http://nodatasource.com/2008/03/09/steal-this-book-or-something-like-that/ This movie like Blade Runner before it, takes us a step beyond. Throw in Wim Wenders Until the End of the World where a machine that can read our dreams falls into the wrong hands, and you have yourself a very compelling & intriguing story. But this is ... http://nodatasource.com/2007/11/12/paprika-review-mushroom-cyberpunk-lucid-dream-mania/ As cyber-sexy as these images are, yes they are work safe. Got these from artist Milk's myspace page. She's from Tucson Arizona. Thanks Noorin! http://nodatasource.com/2007/11/02/distressing-damsels/ No Data Source has a few adsense banner sections. Look what Google sent us yesturday!! I still can't figure this one out. Maybe Digital Maoists are also republicans? Or perhaps libertarians? Funny... http://nodatasource.com/2007/11/01/mccain-4-pres-google-ad-nonsense/ Was reading this book Get Anyone To Do Anything by David Lieberman.  Interesting stuff, all about human nature, what makes us tick, who we respond to and why, and so on. Anyway, there's one section on conflict, and it has a number of phrases that are total mind-f*ckery.  So I thought ... http://nodatasource.com/2007/10/31/trance-inducing-language/ After a very long hiatus, we are back and rockin it old school again. Now with Wordpress... so much easier to use the Postnuke ever was. Take a gander below at the lanier post. That's right the last time we posted was Oct 3rd 2006!! It feels oh ... http://nodatasource.com/2007/10/25/no-data-source-very-reloaded/ Jaron Lanier is one of a handful of thinkers who grok the Kurzweil concepts, yet maintain a healthy skepticism... In this edge.org piece Digital Maoism he talks about online collectivism, a la wikipedia and related sites. He explains that this is not like representative democracy or meritocracy, as all opinions, and ... http://nodatasource.com/2006/10/03/lanier-digital-maoism/ In Sudan a man takes goat as wife. Well he was forced, but perhaps he loves the goat... http://nodatasource.com/2006/09/11/man-weds-goat/ Huey Lewis, no. Huey Newton was an important black activist and founder of the black pnthers. Interesting read. http://nodatasource.com/2006/08/17/who-was-huey-newton/ Now I'm really marking myself indellibly in your mind as an uber-geek. But seriously Science and the City is a pretty good read. http://nodatasource.com/2006/08/17/check-out-science-and-the-city/ Y'all better get down and do your research. Erik Satie. http://nodatasource.com/2006/08/17/who-was-erik-satie/ Many scientific studies are coming out now showing a connection between over cleanliness and allergies. Here we are trying to protect ourselves from plague, rotting teeth, rates, and syphallis of yesturyear, and just when we got the bath thing down, they tell us we're overdoing it! http://nodatasource.com/2006/08/17/maybe-your-mom-was-wrong/ If you're interested in the extremes of the human condition, then I think contortion will always be intriguing. Are these people unusually flexible naturally, or able to endur regular pain to reach incredible heights. Probably a bit of both. Possi's Contortion http://nodatasource.com/2006/08/17/contortion-of-extremeties/ You all better get your ass on top of Quetzalcoatl, or at the very least, read Pinchbecks new novel. BTW, just found out how to pronounce that. It's something like KATE-ZEL-KWAT. http://nodatasource.com/2006/08/17/endtimes-the-coming-of-2012/ Although ultimately war is all about the survival of one tribe against another, after WWII, the UN put together laws of war. I read about jus in bello and jus ad bellum in the economist recently. The former refers to limits to the madness of war, a la the Geneva ... http://nodatasource.com/2006/08/17/do-you-know-there-are-laws-in-war/ So much to read, so little time. The Vision of 2051 by Joe Firmage. http://nodatasource.com/2006/08/17/read-vision-of-2051/ Read Dana Plato's Corpse an article from the old dot-com gettingit.com about the celebrity chick from facts of life, and her strange death... Yes, I just heard the interview on the RU Sirius show. http://nodatasource.com/2006/08/17/corpse-of-dana-plato/ This is work safe, as long as you sit behind your desk! ... lovely chinese ladies. http://nodatasource.com/2006/08/17/chinese-hotties-check-it-out/ A couple of interesting articles, one on smiles + body language and the other on how to be charming or how to charm... It's funny, now that I think about it, to be charming, is almost always positive, endearing, and attractive, while to charm, is sometimes derogatory, snake-like... http://nodatasource.com/2006/08/17/here-we-go-again-body-language-charm/ The idea of plants communicating is rather new in science, although good botanists or anyone with a bountiful garden might tell you that's obvious. At any rate, here's an interesting article on Fig plants communicating with Wasps. Thanks Jing. http://nodatasource.com/2006/07/30/plant-to-insect-communication/ The radical cartography project juxtaposes different cities next to eachother to give you a sense of scale. That and everyone knows maps are cool, so check it out! http://nodatasource.com/2006/07/25/utilize-your-radical-cartography/ Interesting Southeast Asian mythology talks of a spirit called a Toyol. The spirit is used for mischief, and no-good, and they sometimes explain disappearing money, or other valuables. Use needles to ward them off, since they're afraid of needles. Thanks Noorin. http://nodatasource.com/2006/07/25/work-your-toyol-mischief/ Y'all know who the pre-raphaelites were, don't you? Ok, I didn't either until recently, but it's a good read, and we're down with them, yo! http://nodatasource.com/2006/07/25/word-up-to-the-pre-raphaelite-brotherhood/ According to the old science, the old thinking, the universe follows a set of undying laws and is defined by various constants that do not change. But Quantum Physics is screwing everything up. Apparently now even physical constants, such as the speed of light, are not fixed. If you ... http://nodatasource.com/2006/07/25/is-your-science-sitting-still/ Perhaps we were aquatic apes after we were savanah apes? So says this theory. Read through it, there seems to be a lot of sense to it, as it explains a lot other theories don't. http://nodatasource.com/2006/07/25/are-you-an-aquatic-ape/ According to these cognitive scientists, a group of Aymara indians from South America view time in reverse of how we do. To me it seems a questions of semantics, and linguistics, but perhaps I'm missing something... http://nodatasource.com/2006/07/25/keep-the-past-in-front-of-you/ This is a pretty cool collection of photos and advertisements of products before drugs were bad!! http://nodatasource.com/2006/07/25/hopped-or-hoppin-pre-prohibition-photos/  Here's a nice howto article on turning an old (or cheap) webcam into an infrared camera. http://nodatasource.com/2006/07/25/howto-webcam-to-infrared-cam/