Boids, Culture, Just the Sum of Us, Gnarly Distinctions, & Just the Some of Us

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Boids, Culture ,

Just the Sum of Us,Gnarly Distinctions,& Just the Some of Us

by

P amel a Ol son

Instead of vowing tohonor and obey each

other, we should swear to aid and abet each

other. So, take off your silver spurs and help

me pass the time.

May all your storms be weathered, And all thats good get better.


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Copyright 2009 - 2011 by Pam ela Ol son

All rights reserved. All wrongs revenged.Its a story.

Semblance to anyone is not intended nor should be inferred. Savvy, mate?And thanks to all whom a part of them went into this mash-up ;-)

To my husbandits always my husband.

Youll enjoy this one. Boids is a clever, poignant, heartfelt mash-up packed withreal-life subtleties and twisty moments. It is an example of writing for the internetthat is borrowing much from screenwriting. At its heart here is classic quirk, sass,irreverence snark, and blues calling out to you.

There are footprints in here of math, sex, intoxication, politics, religion, love, art,friendship, life, career, marriage, betrayal, networks, blogging, tragedy, success,vows, tolerance, discourse, integrity, flaming, music, humanity, panic, children,

compassion, drugs, business, community, but not the ways you might obviouslythink.

More like moving back and forth between a sensuous and charming very hot bubble bath or hot shower of enthralling feelings, and an ice storm on your chestsavagely pushing you back or sideways as you wearily still move forward. Stillalive. Still living life to the fullest in classic quirk, sass, irreverence snark, and

blues fashion. Read on.

P am ela Ol son's Boids Culture , Just the Sum of Us, Gnarly Distinctions, & Just the Some of Us

Take off your silver spurs and help m e pass the time.

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Always be where the expectations for excellence are the highest.

Beth Anderson & Joe Esposito - Just Imagine (Way Beyond Fear)

Bobby Womack - Across 110th Street

Sylvia - Pillow Talk

Chuck Mangione Hill Where The Lord Hides

Chris Issak You Owe Me Some Kind Of Love

Henry Mancini - Hatari

Frank Sinatra - The Lady is a Tramp

k.d. lang - Surrender

A graduate of College of Marin then Sonoma State Unive rsity, in the middle of The AmericanWine Country, California USA, Planet Earth, Milky Way , Pam ela Ol son is A Marin CountyVolunteer of the Year , founding board member North Bay Multimedia Association ,

Home Designer, Raconteur, Gardener,

Time Traveler, Swimmer, Veteran,

Friend, Real Estate Authority, Ballroom Dancer, Mama,

Color Junkie, Bon vivant, Professor, Author, Wife, and

Landlord Extraordinaire



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Table of Contents

PrefaceBoids

Chapter One

CultureChapter Two

Just the Sum of Us Chapter Three .Gnarly Distinctions

Chapter Four

Just the Some of UsChapter Five

Class IV ComputationsChapter Six

The Empire of Geek Chapter Seven

Epilog GLOSSARY

BIBLIOGRAPHY



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PrefaceTake off your silver spurs and help me pass the time.

Chris Rea - Road to Hell I'm not saying what I did was all right.

Fear is just another word for ignorance said gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson . Thats howthis all started. My ignorance. I still go to sleep each night more than a little baffled.

Who am I? On one level I am a character that took on a life of its own. I am Morgana. Who isMorgana? Youre not the first to ask.

And who are you anyway? You are the most unpredictable, rewarding and dangerous entity that

I encounter. And now we ride the crest of high and powerful waves from the internet ocean.Some ride better than others.

The internet has changed not only how we interact with each other, but also what, who and whyyou are. Thats what Im interested in. Now I think all this is a parallel computation. Okay,yes that was a jump into mathematics. Stay close. We react to each other as groups of networksthat are social, economic, religious, gender, sexual, political, and ad infinitum. Mathematically,groups of networks are parallel computations. Our world has no problem carrying out a small or large parallel computation. Thats because a computation is any process that obeys finitelydescribable rules. What does that have to do with the internet, you or me? It has everything todo with the internet, you or me. And thats what Morgana is all about here. A story. An

experiment in refuge for some. Henry Mancini - Experiment in Terror

We're finally alone.

Computations are supposed to provide answers arentthey? As a young girl I watched adults increasinglyrestless although wise, who didnt always have all theanswers though. That limitation is what made themincreasingly restless. Nothings changed there I found outas an adult myself. The situation you have here though isthat you dont always have the answers. Still, people dosolve many of lifes challenges because wisdom involvesthe toleration of ambiguity, paradox and mystery. Since I

stubbornly reside in theatrical hypotheses that better fitmy feelings, I have a relentless desire for that landscape.

Dwight Yoakam Fast As You



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know how it feels to be the onewho's left behind.

Gatekeepers though, gatekeepers do particularly dislike it when those they perceive as not accepted peer professionals tackle the business at hand, whether it be creating art, contributing

data, debating methods, practicing politics, blogging, or questioning gatekeepers. Yet, history andthe present both repeatedly prove how little the public that consumes the business at hand isencumbered by establishment and institutions when it just doesnt suit them . America was even

founded on that and lasted this long because of that. Blog On. Billie Holliday - I'm a Fool To Want You

I saw so much, I broke my mind I just dropped in

To see what condition my condition was in.

Its not that Im tempted to believe otherwise when told fantasy or even experience fantasy. For

me, the deeper issue is for me to understand reality. When seeking understanding, you cannotunderestimate the usefulness of accurate and precise vocabulary. Hence this book about myanswers I found and didn't find. Its about passion.

Its always about passion.

In our chaotic and information overloaded world passion is what makes you different. And thiscould be applied to companies too. Companies, as Isabel Allende states at a TED conference,need passionate hearts, mavericks, dissidents, adventurous, outsiders and rebels, whobend the rules and take risks.

Robert Cray - Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark You'll never know how I watched you

from the shadows as a child.

What gets you passionate enough to be unstuck is a branch of mathematics known as the HiddenMarkov Model of Change . The evolution of change from one state to another, whether it be

physical, chemical, social, numerical, and on was developed by 19th century Russianmathematician Andrei Markov . It is based on seeing obvious signals and drawing inferencesfrom them, just like jazz master Louis Armstrong did.

Billie Holiday - Comes LoveSee reflections on the water

more than darkness in the depths see him surface in every shadow

on the wind I feel his breath.

Learning curves, not just in art, but also in everything, illustrate the lethal power of the nimblelittle against the clumsy vulnerability of the big. Its true for the big in size, big in smugness, andeven the big in presumption. The evolution of knowing includes how ideas change and, how



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imagination spreads change. Some learn faster than others, while some, just never learn, meaningthey miss the point altogether .

Andy Williams - Can't Take My Eyes Off Younow my time has come

and time, time is not on your side.How about those stylish, sophisticated, swellegant, and lasting moments? You approach themwith a twinkle in your eye. You have an understated sense of mischief and a playfulness meantto draw smiles, not belly laughs. Healthy reality is a medium to channel healthy feelings.Feelings have a lot to say to the feeler and feelee. As in love, connection and communication iseverything. Feelings without deep roots and compare and contrast have no texture, depth andcomplexity. They are unable to age.

For someone like me or perhaps even you, a prolonged period of academic fraternization tends tosaturate one with the optimistic thought that any problem can be solved. Design and build asuitable system and anything can be accomplished. That means academia is both a provocateur and a friendly ally. As provocateurs themselves people anywhere more often than not gravitatetowards choice. Living together is no comedy of manners. It is taking back American marriageone hacked game console and sport tv remote at a time.



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BoidsChapter One

Feeling is All, Name is but Noise & Smoke

What signifies knowing the Names if you knownot the Nature of Things? - Poor Richard

Robert Cray - Smoking Gun May all your storms be weathered,

And all thats good get better.

Youre struggling to be wise, patient and prudent. Tosucceed you must see through many frames,viewpoints, each with its own behaviors. That requireswillingness and courage to reexamine beliefs whenconflicting or contrasting data pops up. To focus,reframe and think through things that are moreimportant. To be accurate about peoples need for meaningful emotional connections with each other. Inother words, to fall into the next chapter of your life.That usually involves apologies and groveling, because

as the Sicilian proverb holds, the man who plays alonenever loses.

It's that lawlessness of the heart thing. Moreover, what people will do and risk for an ideal, or passion.

Brian Setzer - Hollywood Nocturne As long as Im still in the game I want to play

For laughs, for life, for love.

Most naturally occurring complex computations are unpredictable. That is Wolframs PCU,

Principle of Computational Unpredictability . Solon was one of the Seven Sages of the ancientworld so Solon was on The Wise Hit Parade of his time. One of Solons friends was amazed tofind that in Greece wise men spoke on public affairs, but fools decided them. In a profoundsense, the people we now celebrate, as on The Wise Hit Parade, had deep adversarialrelationships with the prevailing values of the culture in which they lived. The Wise Guys didThe Distinguo. They did that because a lot of philosophical investigation consists of what it isyoure talking about. Wise Guy Aristotle often wryly said, I make distinctions.



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Morgana see gnarly distinctions.

Elton John - I'm Your Manif I had him I wouldn't let him out.

Wise Guys insistently wise behavior, making distinctions, distributed decision-making, shapedtheir world. A coherent system is one that independently evolves through a deterministicsequence of supposed states. The Wise Guys self-control posed an inherent risk from others of their alienation at best, their annihilation at worst. Like from The Not-So-Wise Guys that want todo their shaping on others. To the Hive Mind of this Brute Squad, The Wise One is a MarkedOne, a Mad One, in their time, place and circumstances perturbing, ruffling, rattling, anddangerous.

Gary Allan - You Don't Know A Thing About Me I knew there was a better way of life that I was just trying to find.

You don't know what you'll do until you're put under pressure,

Theres more for why we cannot underestimate the usefulness of accurate distinct vocabulary.Read The Wine of Astonishment as language is a network. It has links. Like any network,language obeys a statistical pattern known as Inverse Power Law. Inverse Power Law means thatonly a few can be The Wise Guys of their era. Nevertheless, nothing stays on top forever. Theresalways that self-organizedcriticality. A coherent system after entanglement with another systemis a decoherent system.Entanglement ranging fromanothers viewing, evaluating, andmeasurement to action. A complexclass four computation is a fullydeterministic process that justdoesnt feel like one. Theunpredictability of a complex classfour computation is always arecurring force for revolution.Sorta like A How to Make A GoodLooking Mountain Out Of AnOrdinary Molehill. A complexclass four computation is about notwhat happens, its how good youlook doing it. That happens

because a system is performing acomputation that can only bemodeled, simulated, and abstracted by a system of equal or greater computation.



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Charo - Tu Calorit'll take forever to see

what I've got

Ah, those forces to acknowledge not only how complicated your own lives are, but also howeasy it is to be self-centered and miss to your detriment those complications in everyone elseslives. Watts-Strogatts coefficient of clustering math formula:http://en.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enwiki/716192 . Past research has shown that the network topologyhas a significant effect on the performance of network protocols. A common property of manylarge networks, including the internet, is that the connectivity of the various nodes follows a

scale-free power-law distribution, P (k )=ck -. Grace Jones Storm

You'll forget about the night

Physicist Albert-Laszlo Barabasi and his colleagues at the University of Notre Dame in Indianain 1998 yielded a connectivity map that they christened "scale-free." Barabasi and his team had

been doing work that modeled surfaces in terms of fractals, which are also scale-free. In a worldwhere all nodes are identical a clustering coefficient of 1 indicates that all of a node's neighborsare connected to each other.

A clustering coefficient of 0, zero indicatesthat none of the nodes in the neighborhoodshare common connections. These simple butenormously powerful discoveries haveimplications well beyond the internet. It's worth pointing out that nodes of a scale-free network aren't randomly or evenly, evenlyconnected. Scale-free networks include someto many, many very connected nodes, hubs of connectivity that shape the way the network operates.



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CultureChapter Two

Is It All an Algorithm?Chris Isaak - Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing

Strange weather Im having inside my head

I am prepared to believe that the internet is similar to others description of Falling into the Graceof God, Kismet, Fate, Chance. The internet just now shortens the time and lengthens the reach

previously involved. What about ones immediate perception of ones coherent uncollapsed wavefunction, Quantum Mind, as it entangles with the uncollapsed wave function of the cosmos?Physicist Roger Penrose and psychologist Stuart Hameroff suggest the neurons of our brains,

their networks, microtubles, can do quantum computations. Wow. That means our brainsoperate in parallel mixed states. And you thought it was just those Vulcans who could do thatneat trick. That means our brain is in coherent states for ample time. That means as a whole,collections of brains are networked parallel processors. Now that is some power born to be wild.

Steppenwolf Born To Be WildThis dream is for you, so pay the price.

Make one dream come true, you only live twice.

I laugh at that but stop when it becomes clear that there will be responsibilities allotted. I am atonce grateful and put out by it all though. Leonardo de Vinci offered this counsel, When ones

imagination cannot provide an answer, one must turn to a greater imagination. It's Power To ThePeople although self-medicating seems highly appropriate and I am nothing if not that.Appropriate. Highly appropriate. And determinedly cheery. Even in check. I fake spousal calmrealistically enough to convince him this situation we can and will deal with. That we dealtogether with the significance of the vicissitudes change brings. As a Practicing Repressor withTB (True Believerism), I thoroughly respect this strategy. We all have to get through somehow.You did freely make a vow for life.

The Lady is a Tramp - Frank Sinatra But the shadows won't let go

They dance and call his name.

Healthy adaptive power to uncertainty and emotional regulation in deviations is neural, braincell, plasticity. There is evidence that early life adversity vaccinates us to survive later hardships.The brain is physically changed, hence neural plasticity. Instinct and emotion can be harnessedwith intellect in a constantly changing world. According to first Anna Freud, then Harvard

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Emotions are your birthright. You have no mental illness but emotional habits as first AnnaFreud and then Harvard psychiatrist George F. Valliant believed. Evolutionary anthropologistshave made the same point as Freud and Valliants. Effective adaptation to stress permits us tolive. We can be mature and manage others and ourselves. Like any manager worth their salt,you spend time refereeing, manipulating, soothing, inspiring, cajoling, and massaging others and

yourself. You manage. You manage situations. You manage people. You manage problems.You manage emotions. And so forth. Silly, thats why youre called a manager. You are notcalled a repressor. You do not repress. You do not repress situations. You do not repress people.You do not repress problems. You do not repress emotions. And so forth. As a manager, youmanage all that and more. Thats your only job as manager. Herb Alpert - Tangerine

'Neath the buzzing neon sign Dressed in style so cool and refined Stands a man from some other time

Who's calling out to you.

However, battles for control, even self-control, depend on getting the fundamentals correct in anambiguous, or not perfect, world. Life does not always have well-defined rules and when it doesthe rules just may not apply in your situation. Destruction of a country, a ship or a marriage thathas no chance of ultimately changing the balance of power is not rational. The only rationalconclusion is it is much better for all to prevent and avoid war, physical conflict and divorce. Its no different than trying a new drug and then going cold turkey once addicted which is nodifferent than dating (new drug) then getting married (addiction) and then being divorced (goingcold turkey). We may be genetically just about identical to our ancestors, but our brains have given uscapabilities far beyond that of just being a biological human.

Getting some fun out of life, Madeleine Peyroux". . . the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to

be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say acommonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like

spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue center light pop and everybody goes Awww!"



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Just the Sum of UsChapter Three

History is Our Increasing Mastery of Computations

Miles Davis - Time After Time It is a fantastic thing, this kindness that you do not lose .

Seven world championships over twelve seasons with the New York Yankees, Hall of Famer Casey Stengel explained it this way. The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate youaway from the guys who are undecided. Another explained managing as, a gentleman takes asmuch trouble to discover what is right as lesser men take to discover what will pay. That was,

by the way, Confucius on management.

Ennio Morricone - Sixty Seconds To What? I hurt easy, I just don't show it

You can hurt someone and not even know it The next sixty seconds could be like an eternity

Gonna get low down, gonna fly high.

Government, What Is It Good For? By being big in size, big in smugness, and even big in presumption, all miss the point.

Lacy J. Dalton - Slip Away What a silly concern that turned out to be.

I have written before that the collective human minds power is too underestimated . Theevidence is that the more minds put to work the better all of us are likely to be. No oppressivesystem ever gives up voluntarily without first being slowly worn down by the resistance of theoppressed. The resistance grows in size as more join in. Often the turning point is when those not currently oppressed join the battle of the oppressed.

What gets the oppressed unstuck is a branch of mathematics known as the Hidden MarkovModel of Change . The evolution of change from one state to another, whether it be physical,chemical, social, or numerical, was developed by 19th century Russian mathematician AndreiMarkov . It is based on seeing obvious signals and drawing inferences from them, just like jazz

master Louis Armstrong did.

Beth Anderson & Joe Esposito - Just Imagine (Way Beyond Fear) Like a true nature's child

We were born, born to be wild We can climb so high

I never wanna die



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Born to be wild Born to be wild.

Learning curves, not just in art, but also in everything, illustrate the lethal power of the nimblelittle against the clumsy vulnerability of the big. Its true for the big in size, big in smugness, and

even the big in presumption. The evolution of knowing includes how ideas change and, howimagination spreads change. Some learn faster than others, while some, just never learn, meaningthey miss the point altogether .

Feist - So Sorry It was better to control ones destiny than to be a hired hand.



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You are known for not allowing an unconventional idea to pass you by. That often takes yououtside boundaries and into to uncharted territories. Such as AltaVista until March 25, 2004 hadthe ability to find pages to any given Web page. At the Search Box input link then the URL of the Web page youre interested in. The power in that knowledge is it allows you to one,reconstruct the network behind the URL youre interested in, and two, determine that URLs

hubs. You study this detailed digital record of links to understand, among many things,collaborations, because when it comes to networks, size does not always matter. Ariel VardisBrooWaha clearly showed that.

Sylvia - Pillow Talk Americans want peace, and have never been above direct democracy to get it.

Networks are people and neighborhoods also.

Quicksilver Messenger Service - Fresh Air How weird is this gonna get?

Cause there are some things you cant unsee.Hotmails recognition of the scale-free structure of the internet, that hubs spread products,services and ideas, only intensified Hotmails growth rate to astronomical success.

Viral marketing works on the same concept as a computer virus, hence the name. Computer viruses exploit the structure underneath the internet, which is a scale-free network with power-laws and clustering. That means a computer virus or a message or story can go viral, circle Earthusing exactly the same routes, in less than 24 hours.

Because there is no Critical Threshold, the likelihood of the virus or a message or storys successon the internet is immensely improved. A classic example is Hotmail. Hotmail eliminated alladoption thresholds experience. Thats Basic Going Viral. Hotmails recognition of the scale-free structure of the internet, that hubs spread products, services and ideas, only intensifiedHotmails growth rate to astronomical success. Hotmail decisively demonstrated the robust

power of people networks, and vulnerability to those who do not respect the people networks andthe hubs they create. Hubs can make a profitable or deadly difference.

There is flip side of a successful marketing campaign when a hub makes a deadly difference.One Gateman Dugan didnt know that he would be traced as the hub of a virus with novaccination or cure that has to date slowly and painfully killed 20 million people. A virus on onesuccessful marketing campaign utilizing a scale-free network. It is a terrifying example of the

power of network hubs in our mobile, connected and interdependent Network Society.

Frank Sinatra - The Best Is Yet To Come I'm looking up into the sapphire tinted skies

I'm well dressed, waiting on the last train.

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Bin Laden and his followers did not invent networks. Terrorists do not need nor want a militaryorganization. That means there is never a military win for The Clearly Misnamed War on Terror.Bin Laden and his followers, like others, inhabit a desire for links to their beliefs. That bringinga desire to life is the pre-requisite of the formation of self-organized webs. Self-organized webs

exploit flexibility andhave robust toleranceto internal failures.

Nodes and links arethe skeletonarchitecture of complexity. Thereare universalorganizing principles

behind these systems.You must understand

complexity. Thefocus must be on thedynamics, the hum,along the links.

Why? Its because allnetworks obey rigidlaws. Laws thatdetermine their topology, structureand ability tofunction. The onlyways to cripple,collapse or stop theactual network is bycriticalfragmentation, akaremoval of enoughhubs, and cascadinginternal failures, suchas interference or removal of itsresources. Thatmeans there is never a win for The War onTerror, as a node,usually anonymous,

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Links are incoming. Links are outgoing. Incoming links improve visibility of the Web pagelinked to. Links quantify various interactions. The weight of the links captures the value of theinteraction. Links make everyone long-term stable partners not competitors. Link stability isvital. Stable links mean you have the ability to focus on something else instead of them, the

connection.

Lyle Lovett Shes No LadyOoh, I don't wanna see you be no fool

What I'm teachin' you tonight Boy, you'll never learn it in school, oh, no.

Those that resist this change to interconnectivity and fluid alliances, from a market to a network,are doomed.

Chris Isaak - You Owe Me Some Kind Of Love

One persons cult is another persons mainstream.The only ways to cripple, collapse or stop the actual network is by critical fragmentation, akaremoval of enough hubs, which happened immediately at BrooWaha, and cascading internalfailures, such as interference or removal of its resources, resources like contributors and contentremoved here, without writer permission or previous knowledge with articles changed from whatthey were submitted as, and free speech interfered with. Dead.

Dead, dead, dead. Did I say dead? The Corporate Model was best suited for production, mass production of goods, then services were later added. The value is no longer in the goods andservices. The value now is in the ideas, information and cross-fertilization of them. That putsthe value of the underlying networks for ideas and information as All Important to The Age of Information. Those that resist this change to interconnectivity and fluid alliances, from a marketto a network, are doomed. Walter W. Powell wrote, in markets the standard strategy is to drivethe hardest possible bargain on the immediate exchange. In networks, the way is to createindebtedness and reliance over the long haul. Just like those lifelong relationships you forged inschool.

Writer Ursula K. LeGuinn had a workshop http://www.amazon.com/Steering-Craft-Exercises-Discussions-Navigator/dp/0933377460 and she was pleasantly surprised at how many peoplewere at it who were writing and wanting to improve their writing, even see their craft improvedwith critiques of their writing and others' writing. Unless we rise above the lowest commondenominator, giving a cr.. is not on ones mind though, is it?

Personal home pages are online multimedia texts that address the question, Who Am I to ThisWorld? Since the Web is, amongst other things, a global publishing system, such pages make

public the personal if chosen or the made up avatar or the mash up avatar. At the same time theycan be seen as making for example personal the public, since home page authors engage in

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process of fashioning personal and public identities. In such sites, what are visibly under construction are not only the pages but also the authors themselves.

Grateful Dead

lyricist JohnPerry Barlowsaid in 1996thatgovernmentought not to bein cyberspace.Government?Cyberspace?Dont worry, behappy as Math

is also on thehorizon here. Intrue GratefulDead fashionand spirit, JohnPerry Barlowknew that itisnt the ever-

vague faceless nameless government that solves lifes challenges but people. Accountable peoplewith names and behavior, including people in government. People govern, not government.Government is what people use to govern. Tap into and celebrate that the worlds media relies inlarge part in the individual transforming and shaping government and culture.

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Being intelligent and engaging is not a felony. But most societies sadly evaluate each as at least amisdemeanor. But, tied to the tail of this wandering American kite, as an American citizen and

planet earth resident, I want gestures to indicate anothers belief in the importance of intelligentideas, and free speech, rather than ignorance, intolerance and indifference.

Because my focus is on the dynamics, the hum, along the links. Thats why I believe there is nospectacle on earth more primal in its appeal than that of a beautiful elegantly dressed womanintelligently talking while in the act of cooking a swellegant dinner for someone she loves or ahandsome elegantly dressed man intelligently talking while in the act of cooking a swellegantdinner for someone he loves.

Good is in what an individual finds best in them self, and then goes out and negotiates in goodfaith their life with others. Hopefully picking up lying friends, honest lovers and one faithfulspouse along the way.

I believe if I have talent and can't use it, I've failed. If I use only half of it, I have partly failed. If I use the whole of it, I have succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few women and menever know. Is not this the true romantic feeling - not to desire to escape life, but to prevent lifefrom escaping you? Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.

Discourse and its engagement is the big part of life. I enjoy discourse and its engagement. Mymotivations are as simple as because life is here, I can, I love a challenge, and I treasure myfreedom to do so. I want discourse everywhere. I want discourse here. Mature discourse. Adultdiscourse. Discourse where I get to practice my intelligent mind with another intelligent mind.Discourse is just not happening here. This is sadly only more smoke rings in the dark for me--and diva bashing to you. And I dont smoke. Here is not The Republic of Letters I soughtwith you.

I wanted discourse with anther fabulist. I see now I made a mistake and attributed more to youthan there is. Better luck elsewhere with whatever the hell it is you whoever you really are reallywant.

Trust me on this one here. Opinions are not all equal. Some are a very great deal more robust,sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others. Those are the ones I want todiscourse with. Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowedotherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.

Henry Mancini - A Shot in the Dark I feel safe

I feel scared I feel ready

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Buddhism teaches that truth means acceptance to cease making an enemy of what is really agood friend and accept the previous opponent as an essential ally. There has to be a positiveoutcome for all or you are not acting with truth and the justice of our intentions. By envisioning

positive outcomes for all knowing that you act with truth and the justice of your intention,whether you succeed or not, you fail with less regret having done your best.

Chris Issak You Owe Me Some Kind Of LoveSometimes you need a lover

Sometimes you need a friend Sometimes you just need someone

pon whom you can depend.

There is esprit-d escalier . we freely Mash-Up by borrowing, plundering and remixing the art,culture, ideas, and technology of others. Others being not just people, but everything in Nature.Allen Ginsberg and Abbie Hoffman and The Yippies did indeed try to levitate the Pentagon,throw money into the stock exchange and work with the group Up Against The WallMotherfuckers. Listen to the Fugs Tenderness Junction

Many of you are explorers and pioneers. You are writers, jesters, artists, hecklers, hackers,hobbyists, mockers, poets, philosophers, scientists, and kids that play on-line games. It is in your nature to question conventions and be tempted by not only the simple but also the intricate. For you it is sport or simple curiosity. You dont always do it to rebel or disrupt. You are noticonoclasts, social misfits or people that defy social norms for the sake of defiance.

You do it because you are following a natural impulse. Your motivations are as simple as becauseits there, we can, we love a challenge, and we treasure our freedom to do so. We readvoraciously. You take things apart and put them back together just to see how they work. Youmore often than not find ways to put things together not only more efficiently but also morecompassionately.

You create incessantly. You grew up to be empathetic and sympathetic free thinkers and creatorswith a strong sense of the sardonic because of pervasive social tolerance, the total trust of your community and the full protection of the U.S. Constitution. The effective use of heckling andcivil disobedience is all-American and patriotic. Like the framers of the Declaration of Independence who hated tyranny in all its forms, so do you. Like the founders of your greatcountry, the United States of America, you also are a member of the real, the only, revolutionaryarmy, the one of ideas. You have a magnificent mind and you use it.

It is your right and duty as American citizens in your Representative Democracy to expresscivilly all your supportable opinions to each other and your elected representatives. It is the dutyof your elected representatives to listen to their citizenry, you. It is your duty as Americancitizens to express all your opinions any civil way that you can. The U.S. Constitution guaranteesthat in spite of what government, and corporations who increasingly are the real terrorists,wrongly claim otherwise. As an American citizen, be more than a total amateur at it.



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And as a person alsoI mean, really.

Garbage - The World Is Not EnoughWheres the tit for tat here?

You are concerned by the displacement of common sense folk culture by profit-driven massmedia as you view ideas such as art and writing as resources to be shared openly rather than ascommodities to be hoarded and sold for the highest dollar. That difference is the same difference

between a Digital Read Only Culture & Business Model, and a Digital Read-Write Culture &Business Model. Amateur creativity, which this you are experiencing is, is part of the Read-WriteCulture we are in today and for the foreseeable future.

Television is frustratingly only one channel at only one time for access to its content. That is astrange case of not having it your way. Similar to the internet, a library is the ability to accesscontent when you want to. Libraries didnt have the only on Thursdays at 7 p.m. can you access

Mark Twains Huckleberry Finn . Because of technology, the idea that we have to conform our

schedule to a distributor of content is now ridiculous. Why? Because technology gave peoplethe expectation of access on demand. Expectations can be and often are seductive.

Legislatures and courts have been correctly generally cautious about deciding when conduct thatcitizens routinely engage in is a crime. The reason is laws viewed as unjust or morally lacking incredibility or riddled with hypocrisy and double standards are less likely to be obeyed. Other

people are less likely to condemn the one violating a law viewed as unjust or morally lacking incredibility or riddled with hypocrisy and double standards. That all means that people then loserespect for the law. Not a good thing.

That marriage of technology for access with that tempting expectation of now meant even thegood become pirates in a world of absurd rules. Remember about losing respect for the law?ACCESS NOW is the mantra. Access what? Whatevers available that you want or dont evenyet know that you want. Technology provides access and technology provides it now in real-time. Access produces value. Limited access limits or eliminates value.

Why is access so important? Its not because content is there but because of what can be potentially done with that content. Thats why Google is in the process of digitizing welleverything. People not only want to Read Content, they want to Write to it and transform itTheir Way. That should not be a surprise to anyone. Lawyers, poets, judges, politicians,educator, doctors, musicians, etc. are taught to do exactly that. So also are writers. Quotessprinkle stories--quotes that do not require legal or moral permission to use. That freedom toRemix, Sample, Collage, and Mash-Up, all transformational, is taken for granted from a collegeessay to a New Yorker story.

No Mash-Up competes with nor weakens a market. And anyway, markets are out and networksare in-- to stay. Mash-Ups on the contrary inevitably strengthen a market and network as Remix,Sample, Collage, and Mash-Up is complementary rather than competitive. Mash-Up may be

perceived incorrectly as lost profit for a corporation but for a human, it is the demand to express ,



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a cornerstone of American civil rights so important it is in the U.S. Constitutions FirstAmendment .

Virtual tagging and ranking is vital for virtual meaning, reputation, word of mouth, and linking.The Read-Write Culture and Business Model has become a digital ecosystem of character.

In this Brave New World known as Citizens Journalism, what is the role of the journalist? Is therole of the citizen journalist any different? Can a blogger - citizen journalist - match the qualityof say the New York Times ? The answer is an unequivocal yes. Amidst the barrage are someBloggers that are Read-Writers who are increasingly displaying a depth of understandingdelivering quality and truth that is all too rare in mainstream media. In that barrage of Read-Only Content and now Read-Write Content is source. Source litters any landscape. Source isthe foundation of Mash-Up as it is the emotionally moving reference. Got that? Moving.Emotionally moving. Yet Losers build brick & mortar walled and ruled prisons while WinnersBuild Virtual Rowdy all-American public squares.

Back to Mash-Up. Mash-Up is to Remix, Sample and Collage. All transform. Without it Jazz for example, would not exist. Sounds and images are more and more being used like paint on a

palette, or ingredients in cooking. There are many different bits of culture and the remixer,sampler and collagist are trying to create an interesting composite. A Mash-Up really workswhen the filtered delivery is emotionally powerful as meaning doesnt come from content, itcomes from emotive reference. Those emotive references are what Mash-Up utilizes for learningand showing off--strikingly.

Cultural anthropologist Grant McCracken says, media producers must accommodate consumer demands to participate or they will run the risk of losing the most active and passionateconsumers to some other media interest that is more tolerant. Fans of content work to promotethat content. For example, Star Trek fans boldly took fandom to where no one else has been

before. Thats known as a Shared Economy Community.

The motivations to participate in a Shared Economy Community are the same as for anyrelationship:

1. The beneficial effect of enhancement to reputation.2. Expectations of reciprocity.3. Sense of efficacy.4. Attachment or commitment.

Winners Launch Vibrant Virtual Communities, Losers Launch Web Sites.

Rich with capability, Second Life and World of Warcraft are successful examples of VirtualCommunity. Both emphasize the necessity of a group. That meets your human need for social.The way to being part of a group is by being friendly, trustworthy and sharing. Kindness makesfriends out of strangers. The structure of a successful Community, virtual or not, is not a mystery.Successful Communities push a member to help each other because the stuff that the membersdo and create is what builds value. The members of a Community contribute, often without cash



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payment, as their payment received is intangible. Their contributions make a richer, far moreinteresting and even beautiful Community.

One way to measure a Community, virtual or not, is to map the range of public goods memberscreated that everyone gets to share in . That makes its members healthier and happier people.

The general idea of helping each other out without money involved is rational on a tactical scaleas Second Life discovered when they placed source code under the Free Software FoundationsPublic License. Second Life gave away their copyright, took all its assets, and then freed thoseassets to its community. Giving another the knife they could use to kill you is a powerful

statement of trust . That makes for an extraordinarily valuable relationship and Community.One you would be proud and safe to be a part of.

If you deliver more to someone than what is expected, youll get more in return.

Later on we would learn we werent so much selling copies as we were assuaging anxiety .

The internet has changed the contextual complexities of exercising power, authority, persuasion,charm, diplomacy, sensuality, and influence. Gone are the days where settings from Auschwitzto Abu Ghraib contaminated in isolation both superiors and subordinates as the internet is real-time exposure forcing attention, repercussions and head-rolling of The Chosen Sacrifice,hopefully not you.

America, from its beginning has put a premium on individuality and independence. InTocquevilles words, there is a general distaste for accepting any mans word as proof of

anything. The result has beenthat to be deemed a submissive

blind, deaf and dumb follower is an insult. Due to theinternet, to be timid and docilehas been increasingly rejected

by the rest of the world.Zbigniew Brzezinski refers toit as a global political awakening . Zeitgeist struck and the result was the rise of activism with an increase inholding others accountable,

just saying no and postingexposes.

Executives in business, andgovernment officials, arerelentlessly interviewed,closely monitored,increasingly resisted,



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constantly scrutinized, and easily threatened with whistle blowers to bloggers. Business Week pointed out the unpreparedness to deal with the online whistle blowing, exposes and nastiness asthe realization sinks in to not only those corporate welfare queen executives, but you andeveryone else, that not only is the internet an advertising medium, but also a real time conduit of your reputation. Blogs are created hourly for putting your opinions and conclusions easily

available to everyone with internet access. What others say about you has the ability to stir transmissible feelings of affirmation and belonging. Thats a good thing.



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Class IV ComputationsChapter Six

For Someone That Everything Is A Joke To, Then Sadly, Nothing Matters to Them

Hunter S. Thompson

Frank Sinatra - Im Gonna Live Till I Die No complaints and no regrets.

I still believe in chasing dreams and placing bets. But I have learned that all you give is all you get, so give it all

you got. I had my share, I drank my fill, and even though Im satisfied

Im hungry still To see whats down another road, beyond a hill and do it all

again.So heres to life and all the joy it brings.

Heres to life, the dreamers and their dreams.

Chew on this Republican and Democrat parties. Americansvote because they believe they as a citizen and their opinionsas citizen matters. You know it to be true that as the UnitedStates Constitution guarantees it in several places and inseveral ways. Americans once voted to shape their world. For

a long time less and less and less Americans vote. Not a bad thing. Its change. Its just thatAmericans have discovered another way in participating to voice their opinion and shape their world. A more interactive way. A more open democratic way. More like the academic semioticdemocracy. Americans are not an apathetic group. You are engaged in life on your terms, in your own ways. On the internet you command greater authority and have far greater impact than theyever have had with their vote. Thats a no-brainer now to the average American. You, beingabove average already knew this to be true.

The result is example after example of greater individual impact keeps happening on the internet.One guy, Glenn Reynolds and his Instapundit. Another guy, Markos Moulitsas Zuniga and hisDaily Kos. A gal, Arianna Huffington and her Huffington Post. Another guy, Matt Drudge andhis Drudge Report. Each of these individuals and many others grew enough to shape theirs andyours and our world. Each grew to be gifted activists, intense, talented in intrigue and friendship,intellectually generous, willing to take risks, demanding with Faustian magnetism. They do notsuffer fools gladly. None of us should.

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Those who are governed least are best governed.

Several times a day you, me, everyone decide to or not risk life, fortune and sacred privacy (the biggy of those three). Those who fail the challenge to these risks are merely very tall children,can never be anything else until they face these risks. And be wary of strong drink when doing

so. It can make you shoot at thieves, fraudsters, terrorists, anti-Free Speechers, etc etc etc ... andmiss.

Wynton Marsalis - You Don't Know What Love Is Dammit Jim, I dont love all things Trek, just the classic Star Trek

So many of you are explorers and pioneers. You are writers, jesters, artists, hecklers, hackers,hobbyists, mockers, poets, philosophers, scientists, filmmakers, and kids that play on-line games.It is in your nature to question conventions and be tempted by not only the simple but also theintricate. For you it is sport or simple curiosity. You dont always do it to rebel or disrupt. Youare not iconoclasts, social misfits or people that defy social norms for the sake of defiance. You

do it because you are following a natural impulse. Your motivations are as simple as because itsthere, you can, you love a challenge, and you treasure your freedom to do so. You readvoraciously. You take things apart and put them back together just to see how they work. Youmore often than not find ways to put things together not only more efficiently but also morecompassionately.

Colin James - Sit Right HereWhat? Sex with me wrecked havoc with your life? You claim this in the public records!

The internet uses computer networks as the foundation for you, and our human networks. Tosomeone that has then spent more than 10,000 hours on the internet, to you, obviously theinternet is an inherently social space. You are moving towards an internet that in the next tenyears will be even more exponentially significantly social that it is even today. Spreading theword virally among peers and friends and passer-bys means global citizens. That is a promisingspirit.

Phil Collins - Against All OddsThat walk I made significantly raised his social standing among other men in the harbor.

In a semiotic democracy any citizen is able to publicly tell their story. These guys and gals toldtheir story --On the internet. You told it in public. On the internet. In the making and remaking of your narrative, you reinterpret and reshape your story subject only to skills, access and time. Theaggregate of sharing individual stories is culture. In other points of view, sharing is equivalent tolinks. An individual, you, is equivalent to a node. A hub is the equivalent of a neighborhood.Large hubs are the equivalent of a city. The internet is the equivalent of a world. Reality is thatnow the vast majority of people live in a second nature hybrid on-offline world.

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Although my preference is leisurely, sequestered situations, free of intrusions,never have I turned down a quickie.

You have to trust yourself. You gave up and floated away. You are gloriously and terminallyfaithful. You are someone who believes, even when others do not. There wont always be a why

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IM A FOOL TO WANT YOU because researchers at University College London discovered that people in love have lower levels of serotonin and also, that neural circuits associated with theway we assess others are suppressed. These lower serotonin levels are the same as those found in

people with obsessive-compulsive disorders . That explains why you obsess about your lover.



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Epilog The Universe is a Synchronistic Whole

Fabulous Thunderbirds - Look at That Look at That I'm gonna laugh stead of cry

I'm gonna take the town turn it upside down I'm gonna live, live, live until I die.

You, for one, always answer the bittersweet call of romances drugged enchantment, whatever itmay foreshadow. Love isnt over yet. Look at Set Theory. It is a math branch about levels of infinity! The internet has infinity. And what about consciousness? http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=mark+buchanan+ubiquity&tag=googhydr-20&index=stripbooks&hvadid=2316915929&ref=pd_sl_6ljkqqzeo_b Our trust, love and control of math expose the texture, complexity and risks when you leaveyourself open to science, and how unsettling that can be. Yet, youre in a project so delicious younever want it to end. Then theres it is no longer a safe bet to assume that things will carry on as they have been up tonow. Look in the mirror. We may be genetically just about identical to our ancestors, but our brainshave given us capabilities far beyond that of just being a biological human. For example, anyone is as likely to invent something useful as anyone else is. Once something isinvented, its available to everyone. An idea is something that can be used by everyone andanyone. You pretend you traveled back in Time to 300,000 BC and met a Wilma FlintstoneTime travel is against reason, said Filby. What reason? said The Time Traveler ? H.G.Wells. If you took Wilma Flintstoness fur coat because youre animal rights activist; she wouldno longer have the coat. However, you did not take Wilmas idea of her coat. Wilmaimmediately replaced her fur coat with a faux fur coat. Wilma took your idea, no fur coat,combined it with her former idea, a fur coat, and came up with a new idea, a coat that looks likefur. Others than adopted your idea and Wilmas idea. Pat Benatar - True Love

Fear is just another word for ignorance.

Because ideas cant be removed, ideas or inventions become more useful and powerful as a population becomes larger. Wilma had around a million humans in her time. Today, more thansix billion humans have access to, and use, ideas. Economist Michael Kramer had an idea. Hisidea was that the rate of technological progress is proportional to the worlds population. Hemade what he thought was a very conservative start with his hypothesis by starting with one



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profoundly intelligent brilliant idea occurring per billion humans every year. In WilmaFlintstoness time, with the then around a million humans, that would be one brilliant idea everythousand years. Thats math. By the time there were a billion humans in 1800, that is one brilliant idea every year, a stunning

idea in itself. Michael Kramers idea matches the model unerringly well. Before 1798,technological progress was slow. That is the elegance of geometric progression versus arithmetic progression. By 1930, that would be one brilliant idea every six months. Today, that would beone brilliant idea every two months. That does not even take into account the everyday moremundane ideas constantly arising. Despite humans ever-increasing demand on resources, better technology seems to be winning the day. Thank goodness for that ! Our individual rational behavior can backfire though with The Law of UnintendedConsequences; and, it is not what is always best for everyone. It can, and has, producedirrational results for society and the environment. Our rational behavior also produces wonders.The evidence points to that the more brains there are out there to create ideas , the better the

chances of survival for all from the smallest to the planet. Those more brains are not limited tohuman brains. If you cant do better with yourself or by yourself, you recruit allies. That isGame Theory. So how does that explain the extinction of the Neanderthals? After 200,000 thriving years, ittook just a short few thousand years after Homo Sapiens appearance, for Neanderthal to begone. They were local to the neighborhood so had the Home Field Advantage, were hairier,stronger, faster, had language, and were equally as smart. So what idea was it that Homo Sapienshad that Neanderthal did not? My idea is that it was the idea of division of labor, which incidentally, other animals have alsosince then picked up on. Division of labor results in the very profitable economies of scale. Inthe case of Homo Sapiens, it was the division of the labor of hunting and gathering. Successful ideas to me are just upgrades of being human. Our relentless pursuit of changecoupled with our exponentially increasing ability to enhance constantly ourselves is what makesus todays human. Like our idea to turn our evolutionary capabilities on ourselves, especially our

brains, which we carry everywhere with us. Something so obvious we sometimes forget theimplications of that portability on the pervasiveness of technology. Henry Mancini - Two For The Road

I'm not that eager to make a mistake.

The internet is a technology add-on we created to upgrade massively our brains' abilities toextend memory and to transfer data, ideas and information around. Upgrading our brains goes back thousands of years. It probably started with humans use of caffeine. You like caffeine. Caffeine locks onto the receptors in your brain that usually handlethe chemical adenosine. That interference reduces adenosines activities. That results is an



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increase in another natural chemical in our brains. That being the neurotransmitter dopamine. Ithelps carry signals from neurons to other cells. The result is your feeling of stimulation and anincrease in your concentration. This physical aid to your brain is the equivalent of a mechanicalextension to your body, like transportation to get your puny body but massive brain around.Another stimulant and concentration booster to your brain is nicotine, also used by humans for

thousands of years. Like caffeine, it increases dopamine, and it boosts epinephrine (adrenaline) production. Epinephrine is a hormone that invigorates the physical activity of your body. Afavorite drug of modern students is Modafinil. Trademarked as Provigil, it was originallydeveloped for narcoleptics. More powerful than nicotine or caffeine, but without the jitters,Modafinil also improves intelligence/cognitive performance. Tested by Danielle Turner of Englands University of Cambridge, it is described by her colleague Barbara Suhakian as the

first true smart drug . Choline or lecithin boosts your brains ability to form new memories, which is dependent onsynapses. Hence self-described smart drinks and the eating of soybeans, liver, peanuts, peas,

beans, yeast products, and green vegetables. Same for omega-3.

Use of magnetic fields is being reevaluated to help with brain disorders and stroke recovery. Human language and your use of the written word, both tools of power, are also upgrades. Mostif not all species and even plants communicate with each other and parts of their environmentand as an exponential acceleration to yours and their technology. Even Phyllis Diller didnt fully realize then just how right she was when she joked, The only

parts left of my original body are my elbows. It is no longer a safe bet to assume that things will carry on as they have been up to now.

I'm Fool To Want You - Frank Sinatra Parley?

In Waking Life, one asks "Are we sleep-walking through our waking state or wake-walkingthrough our dreams?"

That means authority-referring claims must be proven before accepted. ". . . the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn,burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in themiddle you see the blue center light pop and everybody goes Awww!" On the Road .

Spend time inside these ideas and deeper impressions emerge. Its like looking at a friend oneday and realizing youre in love with them - and have been for a long time. The science, artistand the depth and breadth of the works creation are revealed. Ideas and images are threadsrunning through great minds. Teachers and intellectuals came to be defined and to definethemselves as responsible for and representative of society as a whole. That is at odds with



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the corporation and its executives that believe it is and they are (hellishly) responsible onlyto itself and themselves.

The only way to get to the intent is to take the full ride. There are great treasures at the end of that ride. Taking just one song from an album, or a color from a painting, or one moment from a

love affair, or one idea of science, means you miss the sweep and grandeur of the album, the art,the affair, or the knowledge.

That requires patience. As I sit here writing, I continue to argue its worth it. Science like musiclike any art, and like friendship and love, unfolds in real time. All speak for themselves. All area journey. Listen intently for more than the constellations of cool ideas and feelings do youencounter. Thats how science, music, art and love work. Not exactly what you ordered, but itworks.

Science, music, art, and love can send fantasies into warp drive, shred your illusions, magnifyreality, exposes vices and vanities, bring calm to turbulence and visa versa. Not all science,

music, art, friend or lover jumps out leaving a strong first impression. Great science, music andgreat art, like great friendship and love, take a while to get under your skin. Once there, staysthere.



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GLOSSARY

Algorithm: An algorithm is a specific set of instructions for carrying out a procedure or solving a problem. Specific algorithms sometimes also go by the name method , procedure , or technique .The process of applying an algorithm to an input to obtain an output is called a computation .

Boids: Boids is an algorithm that models nature's flocking behavior. It is distributed. In thefield known as Artificial Life, one of the most beautiful findings is this very simple algorithm.Computer animator Craig Reynolds invented Boids. http://www.red3d.com/cwr/boids/ http://www.vergenet.net/~conrad/boids/pseudocode.html . Boids are an example of emergence:where complex global behavior can arise from the interaction of simple local rules.http://www.red3d.com/cwr/boids/ .

Computation: A computation is any process that obeys finitely describable rules. A set of rulesused to carry out a computation is known as an algorithm . Complexity as a measure of computational sophistication classifies computations.

The Class 1 Computation enters a constant state. It reached a fixed state and halted.

The Class 2 Computation outputs a nested or repetitive pattern.

The Class 3 Computation produces complex, messy, random-looking to us.

The Class 4 Computation produces complex, gnarly, emulating, intricate, non-repeating, and purposeful to us looking patterns.

Globalization: Globalization is the proliferation of people and companies finding consumers,

vendors, customers, producers, collaborators not just locally, but anywhere worldwide on theglobe Earth.

Hubs: Hubs are the highly linked nodes, ubiquitous clusters, on the internet. Ubiquitous clustersare not random.

Links: Links are incoming and out going. Incoming links improve visibility of the Webpagelinked to. Links quantify various interactions. The weight of the links captures the value of theinteraction. Links make everyone long-term stable partners not competitors. Link stability isvital. Stable links mean we have the ability to focus on something else instead of them.

Noun: A noun is a word that refers to a person, place, thing, state, or quality. Link.

Verb: a word that typically expresses action, state or a relation. Ubiquity.



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http://www.labour.org.ok/;eadership/tony_blair_resigns ;

To: [email protected] Subject: Why Its All About Me, Jonathan D. Glater; A NewForce in Advertising Protest by Email, Christina Passariello, Wall Street Journal , March 22,2007

Breaking the Code of Silence, Phyliss Plitch, Wall Street Journal , April 10, 2006.

Communications Decency Act 1996

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Tied to the tail of this wandering American kite, as an Americancitizen and planet earth resident, I want gestures to indicateanothers belief in the importance of ideas and free speechrather than ignorance, intolerance and indifference. I want it most especially from media.
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