Numinous Nonsense

The Internet Generation or iGeneration

from Wikipedia: The Internet generation is an emerging term in theoretical and popular discourse to denote the American sub-generation branching off Generation Y, immediately following the MTV Generation. Born since the mid-to-late 1980s and early 1990s, the defining cultural-historical event to distinguish this cohort is that they spent their formative years in an age of the [...]

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Kurzweil on C-Span: 3 Hour Video Online

An amazing video of Ray Kurzweil, on C-Span, speaking about his theories. Dude, the guy is geeky! The clip begins with some old footage (1965) of Kurzweil on a game show introducing his first pattern recognition computer, whose function was to write music. And get this, he was 17 years old! [...]

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My Review in the Holons News

I did a short book review of The Attention Revolution and it looks like it went up in this month’s Holons-News. It’s the relatively new monthly newsletter/website that I-I puts out. Suweet. Pretty cool because I also just recorded an interview with the author of that book, Alan Wallace, for Buddhist Geeks. [...]

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MySpace Vlog

I finally caved in and created a MySpace account. You see, even though Myspace is Web 0.8, and I personally find it to be the most terrible social network site ever, it’s still what everyone is using! Unfortunately, that seems to be a prime feature of a decent social networking site (having lots [...]

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Interactive Buddha - Redesign & Remix

I recently redesigned InteractiveBuddha.com for my friend Daniel Ingram. His written work (Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha) and personal suggestions have been a huge support over the past couple of years with my vipassana practice. It seems the least i could do to give something back to him and to help [...]

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The Future of Communication is Visual

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } c4Ckype, originally uploaded by vincenthorn. I had a chance to talk with my old homedawg coolmel (the blogger formerly known as coolmel). We used the new skype video preview for mac, and although the connection [...]

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