Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Thoughts recently

one:
religion produces real tangible results within the minds/actions of people. until non-religious philosophies can provide a significant enough alternative, no appeal to a more empathic humanism will be possible on a large scale.
two:
education largely suppresses those in society who would move us ahead both artistically and creatively. computers don't help, and usually hinder the learning process.
three:
to see how the future will be, ask the people working with youth, historians, linguists, etc... humanities can be economically viable based on their deep insight into human behavior.
four:
too much emphasis into one area of technology makes a society that is unbalanced.
prediction:
internet skills are gradually becoming irrelevant as the technology and knowledge becomes more accessible and pervasive. gradual shift towards non-technological specialization.

Friday, July 3, 2009

Solar Stuff

http://www.dsireusa.org/incentives/index.cfm?re=1&ee=1&spv=0&st=0&srp=1&state=TN
http://rredc.nrel.gov/solar/codes_algs/PVWATTS/version1/US/Tennessee/
http://www.tva.com/greenpowerswitch/solar_sites.htm
http://store.solar-electric.com/hiposopa.html

Friday, June 26, 2009

Steven Wells

Steven Wells

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

13 things that do not make sense

of course there are 13

Futura

"Why does Futura have Mythic Resonance? It’s the font used on the plaque left on the moon by Armstrong and Aldrin. Stanley Kubrick used it. Swissair (you might not get that one. I’ll explain it another time). The Weimar and the Bauhaus (Paul Renner wasn’t Bauhaus, but shared many ideas). It was commercially released in the same year the first transAtlantic telephone call was made, the year of Fritz Lang’s METROPOLIS, the year of cable television and the first video recorder. It is the font of construction and progression, cigarettes and soldering irons."

Monday, March 23, 2009

Keiichi Totsuka

"Computer science will soon be a thing of the past. Computers will affect social lives so deeply that we will communicate with machines without awareness of their presence."
Keiichi Totsuka

Local Food

local harvest . org – directory of local farmers

Friday, February 20, 2009