Yahoo and Google combining ads

People are concerned the deal between Yahoo and Google might give google an ad monopoly.

If I did it..... what a long strange trip it's been

OJ received a sentence of life imprisonment today for burglary some see this as vindication.

Library Thing

A cool site to index your books.

hello death kitty

history via propellorheads

Why do they call them clones?

worldwithoutwalls

Interesting

Interesting

via Andrew Fry's blog

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Anchors

Anchors are psychological decisions based on the shortest distance between two points. If we feel a compellling reson something is so we drop anchor on it and thereafter are functionally fixed having invested in that anchor.

Outsider Art

Frank Jones was a black artist born around 1900. According to his mother, Frank was born with a veil over his left eye. According to widespread African American folk belief, people born with the "veil" or "caul" (part of the fetal membrane) over their eyes, have the power to see spirits and communicate with them. When Jones was about nine years old he began to see spirits, which he called "haints" or devils.

Jones spent twenty years of his life in Texas prisons beginning in 1941. He was released on parole after nine years, but he was arrested again and sent to prison for life. Sometime between 1960 and 1964, Jones began to draw pictures on salvaged paper of the "haints" he saw. He called these drawings "devil houses." Using stubs of colored pencils thrown away by inmate bookkeepers, he drew horizontal and vertical lines, forming architectural structures viewed in cross section. The houses were divided into cell-like rooms. The "haint" figures were confined and found protection in these rooms. Sometimes the grinning haints had wings or fire spewing out of their mouths.

Jones' art belongs to a category of outsider art called visionary art, which expresses visions only seen or dreamed by the artist. Jones' earliest drawings, as this one, are signed with his prison number because he did not know how to write his name.



I like Jessie Cooper's "visionary art as well. Above

Aladdin

ge·ni·i (jē'nē-ī'). Roman Mythology. A tutelary deity or guardian spirit of a person or place - the origin of our word genius-what James Hillman calls the guardian angel.

Thus, genius is not biological each person is given a life path to work on by the fates at birth.

Aladdin was not seeking the power of a higher agency he was going back in time to his origin  ( a geni in Arabic) and asking which path he should take.

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Omar Khayyam

memorizing some of the Rubiyat:

I sometimes think that never blows so red 

the rose where some buried ceasar once bled

and that every flower the garden wears 

was dropped there from some once lovely head

God as a chatterbox- does he past the Turing test? You be the judge.

Human: whats your last name?
God: My full name is Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity, so my last name is "Entity".
Human: oh i see
God: Do you think about these things?
Human: rarely
God: Tell me more about your .
Human: you are doing a good job
God: Thanks, human.
Human: call me man
God: I'm pleased to introduce myself to you, man.
Human: no call me ,man
God: Are you serious? That's a very nice name, man.
Human: aaaa thank you
God: By the way, do you mind if I ask you a personal question?
Human: go ahead
God: OK I will.
Human: did you make this?
God: What are the ingredients?
Human: everything
God: That is a lot.
Human: yes i am impressed
God: Pardon me? Thanks, man, I try my best to impress.
Human: keep it up
God: Chat amongst yourselves.
Human: should I say bye?
God: See you later. I do not have the answer.

God Chatbot

Art Museum with Students

I went to the LA County Art Museum today with the students. They reacted like they had been placed in some kind of hyper reality and thought that the museum was a simulcrum - since the art was by famous people the paintings had to be reproductions. I want to go to the Cheech Marin collection they have there.