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
Yin And Yang
Balance
Saturday, February 20, 2010
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.
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