Optimus Keypad: Optimus Pultius is a Leaner, Meaner, 15-key LED Pad

I'm only slightly scared that I'm descending so far into the depths of dorkitude that this actually appeals to me.

Oh well!

Link

Aerican Empire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Check it out.

My favorite micronation replete with smiley-faced warhammer 40k figures!~

Reveille, by A. E. Housman

IV. Reveille
by A. E. Housman (1859-1936)

Wake: the silver dusk returning
Up the beach of darkness brims,
And the ship of sunrise burning
Strands upon the eastern rims.

Wake: the vaulted shadow shatters,
Trampled to the floor it spanned,
And the tent of night in tatters
Straws the sky-pavilioned land.

Up, lad, up, \'tis late for lying:
Hear the drums of morning play;
Hark, the empty highways crying
\'Who\'ll beyond the hills away?\'

Towns and countries woo together,
Forelands beacon, belfries call;
Never lad that trod on leather
Lived to feast his heart with all.

Up, lad: thews that lie and cumber
Sunlit pallets never thrive;
Morns abed and daylight slumber
Were not meant for man alive.

Clay lies still, but blood\'s a rover;
Breath\'s a ware that will not keep.
Up, lad: when the journey\'s over
There\'ll be time enough to sleep.

Richard Foreman, Pancake People and the Ontological-Hysterical Theatre

I wanted to link to this great article by the Edge about historical perspectives on information technology.

Especially captivating is Richard Foreman's insightful comments about the vast expanse of information on the internet leading to the creating of "pancake people", those without the traditional depth that he describes as being so prized by Western Society.

Must read/see his latest play The Gods Are Pounding My Head, a.k.a. Lumberjack Messiah

Another interesting diagram depicts an early attempt to schematicize artifical intelligence and the ways that mistakes or error could breed ingenuity. To me this is one of the most interesting quandries of artifical intelligence. How to incorporate the beautiful mistake and the happy accident.

From Edge:
Lewis Fry Richardson's answer to the question of creative thinking by machines is a circuit diagram, drawn in the late 1920s and published in 1930, illustrating a self-excited, non-deterministic circuit with two semi-stable states, captioned "Electrical Model illustrating a Mind having a Will but capable of only Two Ideas."

praxis

I'm having trouble choosing between theoria, poiesis, and praxis.

three types of knowledge: theoretical, to which the end goal was truth; poietical, to which the end goal was production; and practical, to which the end goal was action.

unfortunately elite as always.

Tony Kushner

Plays to know:

A Bright Room Called Day (1985)

Angels in America: A Gay Gantasia on National Themese (1991)

Only We Who guard The Mystery Shall Be Unhappy (2003)

Extreme Urbanization

Michael Wolf photograph of Hong Kong