Saturday, March 22, 2003

Shock and Awe Redefined Well now we have seen everything - A new weapon at the Pentagon. Designed to burn our eyes out. I have never seen a worse outfit. Have you? 11:40:17 PM    comment []

Break from the War - Beautiful Women? I have just returned from a matinee showing of Bringing Down the House - a new film with Steve Martin and Queen Latifah. I needed a break from the War. I found it very funny. Like the Steve Martin character, I am mainly a head guy. So for me part of the fun of the film was watching QL "melt" Martin and all his white family. Got me thinking. What is beauty? I know what I think - how about you?   5:34:28 PM    comment []

The "Peace" Movement - Now I understand Here is an interview between an Iraqi exile, a Peace "Girl" (you will understand why I use this term if you listen) and the Radio guy. Now I understand what they are about and so will you. Worth the wait on the download. 8:02:41 AM    comment []

SARS - Identified now - Lesson for Blogging? I find it amazing that in a week the global research community can make this kind of progress. I think that it is a good test for it seems a statistical certainty that we will have an outbreak of a disease soon that will be both infectious and lethal. Why? Becaue there is so much global travel. This has been a useful practice. I see a link though between disease with blogging. Has not blogging increased the ability of an idea to be "infectious"? The internet helped. A bit like Global travel. Email is better. But the issue is how to find the good memes from all the noise. The good memes are the ones that are "lethal". They penetrate the mental immune system and they change how we think. This is surely where blogging has its value. Blogging acts as a filter so that the really good memes get pumped up. The hubs add lethality as they give credence to the idea. We can see this so clearly right now as we watch on the war being blogged.   7:32:35 AM    comment []