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 18 Jan 2002 @ 11:56, by ming. Transportation
A test of a new public transport system is being carried out in Cardiff Bay, U.K. See the BBC Article . Unlike conventional public transport, this consists of small cars that running on tracks can automatically take themselves to the correct destination. This allows there to be a mesh of tracks and stations thoughout a city, as opposed to traditional transport which tends to run along corridor routes to a city center. An paper is available. Future versions may have dual control to allow people to drive the cars from the nearest station off the track to their homes, so that it can altogether replace traditional cars. More >
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18 Jan 2002 @ 11:46, by ming. Conspiracy
A former German Cabinet Minister attacks the official brainwashing on the September 11th issue in an interview in the German Tagesspiegel daily newspaper. The baffling failure of the U.S. Administration including its 26 secret agencies with an annual budget of $30 billion, to come up with any convincing assessment, was one big problem that von Buelow addresses, in quite some detail. More >
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16 Jan 2002 @ 16:38, by ming. Networking
Idealist.org has launched an initiative that calls for people to get together in many areas on February 5th, 2002, to organize local networking groups and help centers that facilitate constructive community projects of all kinds. Idealist.org is already very useful and successful in providing listings of organizations, resources, volunteer opportunities and much more. This is an attempt to take it further.
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 16 Jan 2002 @ 12:40, by ming. History, Ancient World
Marine scientists in India say an archaeological site off India's western coast may be up to 9,000 years old. The revelation comes about 8 months after acoustic images from the sea-bed suggested the presence of built-up structures resembling the ancient Harappan civilisation, which dates back around 4,000 years. Here's an article from BBC More >
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 14 Jan 2002 @ 02:10, by ming. Communication
I always come back to *dialogue* as a central ingredient in creating a new civilization. That is, a space of mutual exploration where we can talk about what we're experiencing, without any need to judge each other. I particularly support dialogue as David Bohm described it. Several people have compiled excellent resources on dialogue. See Tony Judge's page at UIA and Heiner Benking's Open Forum page. And the people who introduced me to dialogue: Linda and Glenna at The Dialogue Group. Also, check out Deep Dialogue. More >
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8 Jan 2002 @ 02:26, by maxtobin. Energy Sources
Here is an interesting one to check out. BUT please be warned the "gentleman' behind this technology is a twisted genius with paranoid tendencies. Still that doesn't detract from the interesting technology and its many potential applications.
[link] Have a look but DON"T under any circumstances try to buy shares in the company. Only attempt to have a business relationship if you are ready to 'dance with the devil'
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 6 Jan 2002 @ 22:18, by ming. Social System Design
The term "post-modernism" has always confused me. Or, rather, I must admit that I never got a good definition. Now, researching it some more, the best explanation I can find is in these pages. Modernism was characterized by a belief that rational, orderly progress of one well-identified central metaphor, such as Science or Capitalism or Communism, was going to solve things. Post-modernism is the end of belief in any such absolute truths; replaced with a sense that everything is relative; there are no universal answers or agreements; culture just fragments into a playful celebration of chaos. We're surfing across multiple paradigms, without any of them being the obvious RIGHT one. Mostly it means that Science and your local Political Paradigm have been deposed as gods of your world. You can make up the truth as well as they can. More >
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 5 Jan 2002 @ 13:19, by ming. Environment, Ecology
Well researched and horrifying article from Washington Post, about Monsanto Corporation's attempts at hiding (very) incriminating evidence about its widespread pollution in the past. E.g. in producing the toxic (and now banned) industrial coolant, PCB, it put thousands of times the legal limit into local streams, found by their own experiments that fish submerged in a local creek died in 10 seconds, spurting blood and shedding skin, and still they decided it wasn't worth the expense to do anything about it, and they kept it quiet. This is information is based on internal Monsanto memos. Good news is that many past manufacturers of PCBs are being forced to clean up their messes. More >
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 5 Jan 2002 @ 12:31, by ming. Paranormal
Seems like the famous cattle mutilations are beginning to happen again. See article in Great Falls Tribune. Still not clear who's doing it, but the official explanations of it all being natural predators and hoaxes are so far-fetched that somebody's obviously hiding something. More >
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 22 Dec 2001 @ 20:05, by ming. Liberty, Sovereignty
AP - WASHINGTON D.C. - Pentagon officials announced this morning that Santa Claus has been detained on charges of terrorism. More >
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