Yin And Yang
Balance
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Pepsi DrinkerSaturday, February 20, 2010
Vishal Vaid's hypnotic song | Video on TED.com
"Vaid takes the classical tradition seriously,
and perhaps modernizes it in a controlled way."
Amardeep Singh
Vishal Vaid has trained
in the traditional art of ghazal
(an ancient form of poetry, often
performed in song) since
he was three years old.
Today, his performances blend Eastern
and Western, ancient
and contemporary to create spellbinding
music. He has performed throughout the world,
appearing on television shows in New York,
London, India, and Morocco, and has worked
with renowned artists Anoushka Shankar, Bill Laswell,
Michael Franti, and Karsh Kale.
In addition, he provided vocals to the
electronic-oriented band Bhoom Shankar
formed by Karsh Kale and credited with beginning
the popular genre of music known as Asian
Massive within the electronica community.
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/fre_fr/david_merrill_demos_siftables_the_smart_blocks.html
David Merril gives a great demo of the future of building blocs...
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/fre_fr/david_merrill_demos_siftables_the_smart_blocks.html
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/fre_fr/david_merrill_demos_siftables_the_smart_blocks.html
Friday, February 19, 2010
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Assassination in Dubai
The elaborate assassination of a Hamas official last month in Dubai has all the earmarks of a Mossad operation and was likely sanctioned by Prime Minister Netanyahu, says a former case officer in the Israeli intelligence service.
Victor Ostrovsky, who wrote a controversial book about his four years with the Mossad in the 1980s, says that many of the details in the surveillance video of an alleged 11-person assassination team indicate that the operation was likely rushed, and that the use of aliases belonging to Israeli citizens is a common tactic of the Mossad, though generally not for assassination plots.
The video and assassination have sparked extensive debate in the media, inside and outside Israel, over, among other things, the alleged assassin team’s use of forged passports from the United Kingdom, Ireland, France and Germany. At least seven of the passports used the names of residents in Israel who hold dual citizenship in other countries and who say they were not part of the operation. They are now concerned that they could be targeted for revenge by Hamas or others.
Source:http://www.wired.com/
Victor Ostrovsky, who wrote a controversial book about his four years with the Mossad in the 1980s, says that many of the details in the surveillance video of an alleged 11-person assassination team indicate that the operation was likely rushed, and that the use of aliases belonging to Israeli citizens is a common tactic of the Mossad, though generally not for assassination plots.
The video and assassination have sparked extensive debate in the media, inside and outside Israel, over, among other things, the alleged assassin team’s use of forged passports from the United Kingdom, Ireland, France and Germany. At least seven of the passports used the names of residents in Israel who hold dual citizenship in other countries and who say they were not part of the operation. They are now concerned that they could be targeted for revenge by Hamas or others.
Source:http://www.wired.com/
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Leonard Cohen knows
"Everybody Knows"
Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows that the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That's how it goes
Everybody knows
Everybody knows that the boat is leaking
Everybody knows that the captain lied
Everybody got this broken feeling
Like their father or their dog just died
Everybody knows the deal is rotten
Old Black Joe's still pickin' cotton
For your ribbons and bows
And everybody knows
And everybody knows that the Plague is coming
Everybody knows that it's moving fast
Everybody knows that the naked man and woman
Are just a shining artifact of the past
Everybody knows the scene is dead
But there's gonna be a meter on your bed
That will disclose
What everybody knows
*bits and pieces of LC's song...
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Daily Effort.
Remember to seek progress over perfection and seek to do a little every day to achieve your goals.
Friday, February 12, 2010
Just get started.
Do your best with what you have from where you are.
Circumstance does not make the man, they need to be seen as your baseline because the realistic assessment of where your life is at at this moment in time is needed to plan interim steps to achieving your big goals.
Circumstance does not make the man, they need to be seen as your baseline because the realistic assessment of where your life is at at this moment in time is needed to plan interim steps to achieving your big goals.
Learning
Learning is acquiring new knowledge, behaviors, skills, values or preferences. It may involve processing different types of information.
The ability to learn is possessed by humans, animals and some machines. Progress over time tends to follow learning curves.
Human learning may occur as part of education or personal development. It may be goal-oriented and may be aided by motivation. The study of how learning occurs is part of neuropsychology, educational psychology, learning theory, and pedagogy.
To be an autodidact is a person who has learned a subject without the benefit of a teacher or formal education; a self-taught person.
Being a self-taught person has become easier in this current Age of Information. The World Wide Web contains information useful to anyone conducting their own program of learning about just about any topic they can choose to study.
You never stop learning.
Plan and select what you learn rather letting television brainwash you on behalf of the marketing departments of giant corporations. You live in a consumer society but you do not need to be a victim.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Focus your efforts on your one Big Idea for best results.
"There is a quote by Paul Valery. He met Einstein at a party in the 1920s, and he asked him
'Do you carry a notebook' around?
Einstein asked, 'Why?',
and Valeria said 'To write down your ideas, to put them down,'
and Einstein said, 'I only have one idea.'
Conclusion:
To succeed, you only have to have one idea—two ideas, you’re dead.
Or at least this is how Nassim Taleb interprets this conversation.
He says he has only one big idea: UNCERTAINTY.
Uncertainty regarding markets has two parts:
i) math and computation
ii) psychology
'Do you carry a notebook' around?
Einstein asked, 'Why?',
and Valeria said 'To write down your ideas, to put them down,'
and Einstein said, 'I only have one idea.'
Conclusion:
To succeed, you only have to have one idea—two ideas, you’re dead.
Or at least this is how Nassim Taleb interprets this conversation.
He says he has only one big idea: UNCERTAINTY.
Uncertainty regarding markets has two parts:
i) math and computation
ii) psychology
Monday, February 8, 2010
It is a big world out there.
A Pakistani Muslim Sufi devotee smokes a cannabis cigarette in a Christian grave yard next to the Data Darbar the burial place of the Saint Syed Ali bin Osman Al-Hajvery shrine, popularly known as Data Ganj Bakhsh, during the three-day annual ''Urs'' religious festival in Lahore on February 3, 2010.
In popular Sufism (i.e., devotional practices that have achieved currency in world cultures through Sufi influence), one common practice is to visit the tombs of saints, great scholars, and righteous people.
Data Ganj Bakhsh was a Persian Sufi and scholar during the 11th century. He was born in Ghazni, Afghanistan (990 AD) during the Ghaznavid Empire and settled and died in Lahore spreading Islam in South Asia. During the festival the shrine is lit up with candles and lights, donated dinner is prepared for the people and Sufies dance around and musicians play music for hours.
He significantly contributed to the spreading of Islam in South Asia. Born around 990 CE in Ghazni, Afghanistan during reign of the Ghaznavid Empire and died in Lahore (in present day Punjab, Pakistan) in 1077 CE. His most famous work is The Kashf Al Mahjub ("Unveiling the Veiled") written in Persian language. The work debates Sufi doctrines of the past.
Hujwiri belonged to the Junaidia school of Sufism. These sufis followed Junaid Baghdadi of Baghdad. Hajwiri is also viewed as an important intercessor for many Sufis.
Hujwiri belonged to the Junaidia school of Sufism. These sufis followed Junaid Baghdadi of Baghdad. Hajwiri is also viewed as an important intercessor for many Sufis.
Classical Sufi scholars have defined Sufism as "a science whose objective is the reparation of the heart and turning it away from all else but God." Alternatively, in the words of the renowned Darqawi Sufi teacher Ahmad ibn Ajiba, "a science through which one can know how to travel into the presence of the Divine, purify one’s inner self from filth, and beautify it with a variety of praiseworthy traits.
Whirling Dervish at Rumi's Tomb
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