The most incredible time lapse paint animation ever produced?
MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.
Broken Laws, Broken Lives: Medical Evidence of Torture by US
In PHR’s new report, Broken Laws, Broken Lives, we have for the first time medical evidence to confirm first-hand accounts of men who endured torture by US personnel in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantánamo Bay. These men were never charged with any crime.
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Domino PCs: The Real Thing: 86 PCs in a row! The Original
Domino PCs: The Real Thing: 86 PCs in a row! The Original
This is for anyone who has ever wanted to kick over their PC. How about kicking over 86 of them with a single kick?
My question to ABC’s Q and A show panel
Why don’t any politicians acknowledge the true cause of inflation, fractional reserve lending which allows banks to issue hundreds of billions in credit literally ‘out of thin air’? Why don’t ALP and Liberal governments take back our currency issuing powers?
What Subversive Alternative Paradigm Are You?
You are a Mystic. Practical magic isn’t really your thing; you much prefer to take the inner roads to self-development and spiritual evolution. You find ecstasy in meditative silence and commune with the divine without aid of any church or religious leader to guide you. You will seek the light of heaven in your own way, even if that way is not apparent to the casual observer.
Twitter Updates for 2008-04-29
- @l_eau Hi there! Interesting listening list, I will visit Last.fm later to check some of them out. Just got to find my login info again!
# - On 2008-05-01 I will change my Twitter name to "Entregreeneur", as that is my core self-identity. "BlogAndGrow" has been a transient phase. #
- @l_eauTwas Ninja Custodian that caught my attention. Never heard of NC but songs not available on Last.fm. Trying to play your station now. #
- @l_eau Twas Ninja Custodian that caught my attention. Never heard of NC, seems their songs are not available on Last.fm? #
- @l_eau FAIL trying to play your station. Something wrong with my Windows Media Player or whatever is supposed to make noise. Again.
# - #TPG same call every month. I get paid on 29th/30th. They try to bill me on 27th. FAIL. I say please move billing 2 days. They can’t. D’uh! #
- @l_eau I think its my Windows XP and Media Player 11 that’s the problem. "Upgraded" from v10 and A/V content stopped playing in FireFox. #
- TwitterPoll: Twhirl users : does anyone bother clicking every tweet to make the little green unread dot disappear? Doesn’t seem feasible! #
- @stilgherrian I haven’t "logged on" since I last used dial-up sometime in 00/01. "Pages viewed" still has some meaning for me re. websites. #
- Retweeting @GreenLiving: [EcoTech Daily] How the Media Abandoned the Environment http://tinyurl.com/57ebvc #
- @RuthEllison You mean the Green Lantern avatar green circle, or the EcoTech green circle? When I change to Entregreeneur will need new logo. #
- @Fifikins There isn’t a north QLD meetup.com group for "girlie night with cocktails and stuff!" ? You better make one; if you want it do it! #
- @RuthEllison Ah that green circle I had already switched contexts several times, forgetting I had asked about the green dot of Twhirl. #
- @dekrazee1 Adding ppl to GReader? I tried to figure out how to share GReader items with ppl in my Gmail list once, gave up after 5 minutes. #
- Ooooh soooo sneeezy :-{ #
- @Fifikins That’s a long way to go for a social drink! But I think I get it #
- @tradingnothing Juice on cereal is a pretty good option when you’re out of milk or wanting a break from dairy or soy. Enjoy the coffee! #
- @mspecht Plese add me to your update list for the OLPC, I will see what I can do to contribute when the time comes. Thanks! #
- Any Gold members of Klinkert and Bauer’s ViralUrl.com? Is it worthwhile? What’s best? Tools, information, networking, income potential? #
- @pureCaffeine I think my Eee needs things done to it that I wouldn’t want to repeat on Twitter either! Its Linux, so how do I install apps? #
- Mind like a goldfish. Can’t remember what tweets I read way back in Timeline. Using Twhirl’s green dot for its intended purpose. Mark read! #
- @bck Had a problem with GoDaddy a few years back. Used their domain check tool, discovered a ripper of a name, went to buy and it was gone! #
- @bck Apart from that GoDaddy has been 100% good for me, around 70 domains there currently. I ignore all the extra junk they’re flogging #
- @robertmerrill Haha, good one! Better yet, put the divider after the most expensive of your own groceries and watch them really freak out #
- @andrewparker @greggscott @kaiserkuo @biz http://TwitterSnooze.com Great! I wished for Twitter mute function on 2008-04-04 http://is.gd/9Vr #
- @lisamer Hi, how did you go with job application, did you get an interview? Kept an eye out for an update, missed it? Found your turtle yet? #
- @dekrazee1 *Weewar poke* #
- Four minutes left before I go scope down for 4.5 hours. Book-keeping and financial analysis time. Back @ 23:00 Sydney time peeps #
- @pureCaffeine Okay, onto it #
- Watching Abir Batikhi of Jordan, possibly the first female Arab rally car driver, on Foreign Correspondent ABC TV http://is.gd/9Y3 #
- This is totally FTW! Gamer uses skills in real-life mission, gets milk powder to mother & baby under house arrest in China http://is.gd/9Yk #
- @dekrazee1 You want air for your tyres? Hey, that’s asking a bit much isn’t it? Servos going broke selling petrol, can’t afford to give air! #
- @notaphysicist Yes, you have a learning disability. It’s called Twitter and you’re soaking in it right now!
# - West Australian Liberal Opposition Leader Troy Buswell admits sniffing the seat of a female Liberal staffer. Tough for him to front media. #
- @artywah Our Aussie pollies just haven’t got the style of the Brits or the chutzpah of the Yanks in their drugs and sex (mis)adventures. #
- @artywah look at George W Bush and Bill Clinton with their history of alcohol and cocaine abuse, sexual misconduct, compare Howard and Rudd. #
- @artywah Yes Fraser’s trousers, that was classic! Bob Hawke was the last truly debauched Aussie Prime Minister. John Gorton loved a booze-up #
- There’s something terrible about Ferrero Rocher chocolates…. the intense cravings I have for more when they’re all gone #
- @ShannonRenee In Twhirl, I believe the Green dot indicates unread tweet, click it to mark as read, green dot disappears. How I’m using it. #
- "When you’re at the end of a rope in 90km/hour winds, its good to know the guy at the other end can tie a knot properly." ABC interstitial. #
- Four Corners on ABC TV now screening a Barak Obama biopic. "Yes we can!" Can what, exactly? Live MLK’s dream of a post-racial America? #
- @lindseyallen Greetings to you from Sydney to LA. Welcome to my strange view of the world #
- @torley I love it when I check out a new follower and find something geeky that makes me go "Coool!" Love that psychedelic Cactus Man! #
- @shawnz Def Leppard - Love Bites - Classic hehe! #
- @patobryan Ah, second coffee, a man after my own heart! I want a Portable Blog Empire too, but I’m too busy playing Weewar to do the work #
- @patobryan Weewar.com, most addictive game I’ve played in years, Been playing for 2 months now, about 1 hr/day ave. I could blog about it #
- @patobryan I could blog about sneaky Weewar strategies, like optimal unit and terrain combos, how to fake people out with psycho-chat, etc #
- @patobryan Thanks Pat! ‘Fraid I have been neglecting my PE though. I will check out what you have to say about PE very soon. Happy days #
- @PatOBryan somethingistechnicallywrong.com Haha brilliant! Talk to @Eskimo_Sparky - he has SITW t-shirts, you might be able to co-promote? #
- 02:25 and my worthy weewar opponent @dekrazee1 has retired for the evening. Time to cast aside this laptop and watch the Mumbai Indians bat. #
- Goodnight everyone, wishing you wonderful joy in your days and nights, plays and fights. Love and light to you all my friends. #
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My thoughts on “Turf wars hobble China’s financial markets”
Quotations extracted from “Turf wars hobble China’s financial markets” - By Alan Wheatley, China Economics Editor, Guardian.co.uk
“It was no surprise when China Investment Corp (CIC), the
$200 billion sovereign wealth fund set up last September,
bought into U.S. private equity giant Blackstone and investment
bank Morgan Stanley. CIC’s mandate, after all, is to take more
risk to earn higher returns on a chunk of China’s vast
reserves.”
It was a surprise to me, because I would have thought if CIC’s mandate was earning higher returns, the USA economy would not be the best place to seek returns given the current economic outlook for the USA is indicating a near-term recession with ongoing deflationary and inflationary pressures conspiring to flatten growth and devalue the USD relative to the Yuan.
The most interesting extracts with implications for Australia:
“Financial market innovation requires clear rules, and
China’s in desperate need of financial market innovation,” said
Michael Pettis, a finance professor at Peking University.
“What was a surprise was when the State Administration of
Foreign Exchange (SAFE), an arm of the central bank that
separately manages $1.68 trillion of China’s reserves, showed
up on the share registers of a trio of Australian banks and of
Western oil majors Total SA
The need for greater financial market innovation in China could provide scope for that same trio of Australian banks (and other Australian financial institutions) to take reciprocal positions in the Chinese financial marketplace, subject of course to the provision of satisfactory market-opening measures being incorporated into the pending Australia-China FTA (Free Trade Agreement). There is a promising indication that this could occur, with some provisions being incorporated into the recently gazetted New Zealand-China FTA.
Most (un?)amusing extracts:
Word has it in Beijing financial circles that CIC is furious.”
“owing to a communications
gaffe, the first Premier Wen Jiabao knew of CIC’s (China Investment Corporation) $5 billion
stake in Morgan Stanley was when he heard about it on the
television news.”
Not Happy Wen Jiabao!
China’s financial market continues to be the most dynamic, expansionary capital market in these opening stages of the 21st century, rising in capitalisation and influence just as the USA capital markets undergo the paroxism of spasmodic contractions. Sub-Prime is far from over in the USA; more pain is yet to come.
But ultimately the giant global demand for energy, particularly acute in China, which is currently down to a very slender 12 days reserves of coal, will prove to be the limiting factor for growth in every economic jurisdiction.
That’s why economists need to spend more time talking to ecologists. Economics somehow pretends there is no imminent catastrophe decline in energy availability just as demand in China and India is skyrocketing, whereas that is the physical reality facing the globe.
May you live in interesting times, indeed.
Twitter Updates for 2008-04-28
- @skribe I really like your web site. I have "Discovered" it in StumbleUpon. http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/www.skribeproductions.com/ Cheers #
- maximus-sneezus-horribulus-est! #
- This sudden east coast of Australia cold snap has reminded me how pleasant the weather is in Vanuatu this time of year (bkgrnd image May 07) #
- @notaphysicist Sweden? Why not Dunedin, its a lot closer, they speak English (with a fernny excent) almost as cold and rhymes to boot. #
- @jjprojects I never swore on Twitter before, but when I saw how many fucks are in my timeline tonight, I fucking knew something was fucked! #
- @jjprojects Well done for the first ever International Twitter Day of Fuck and the Social Media Fuckfest. I will not be tweeting fuck again. #
- Trust us Australians to go berserk with the f word at the first viable opportunity! #
- @notaphysicist Ya right about that mate. Not many Swedish chicks in Dunedin no. But you might find a feisty Kiwi lass with good Scots genes. #
- Father has arrived from the country. Been here 30 minutes and temperature has already plummeted inside. I bet he left back door open. Fuck! #
- @notaphysicist Dont know if they have Gloria Jeans but you might find Glory inside some Jeans? #
- @ozwebfx Wow, how did you get your tweet to appear backwards and upside-down? Trippy! Glad Im using Eee, easy to invert to read it! #
- @notaphysicist You need to take friction into account as you are trying to get Gloria Jeans off on a cold Dunedin night by the fireplace! #
- @andybeal PayDotCom.com by Mike Filsaime is one such critter. I have an affiliate link for it somewhere Check it out, see if it suits. #
- Sudden and severe spasms in my back due to influx of freaking cold air. Thanks for the chill thrills dad, now can we close the door? #
- Retreating to bed, dooner, heater, will tweeter ya all later from there. #
- @jjprojects I haz two new followers since my first fucking profanity on Twitter. Hope that helps your Social Media Fuckfest research #
- WTF happened to global warming? Its still April! Coal burns in Hunter Valley and hot air emerges from heater in my room. Love technology! #
- @cait Hiya, glad to be in the loop! I am guessing we have @jjprojects and his fuck-in-every-tweet experiment to thank for the connection? #
- To everyone overseas who might be turned off by the veritable fucking explosion of fucks, its only for tonight. See @jjprojects seesmic post #
- Segue from Eee PC over to my Toshiba-testicle-frying laptop to take my Weewar turns and read some feeds in Google Reader before I sleep. #
- @snipergirl After your previous tweet , I had to use the word testicle in my next tweet. What strangeness this twitter realm doth invoke. #
- @dekrazee1 Watch out!! I’m in our Weewar game, pwning your d00dz #
- @Snipergirl Eeeew! There’s something fundatesticularmentally wrong with that scenario. "Beastly wild Tasmanian chomps her brother’s teabag!" #
- Ten (Channel 10) Says "IPL Cricket Next" W00t! The Slug-Fest continues!! #
- ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? #
- @DavidFeng Can’t take original credit. Picked up from a tweet by @Glitch, I found via a link tweeted by @ArtyWah http://tinyurl.com/5ku9fy #
- @DavidFeng @Snipergirl @ArtyWah I think I tracked the ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? down to @TwitterPOET, cheers @TwitterPOET #
- Chennai Supre Kings won the toss and chose to bat. First over about to commence. Match 15 of Indian Premier League #
- @dekrazee1 Don’t forget to Weewar! ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO BLOG! #
- @dekrazee1 Hmmm if that’s the way it’s gonna be… I better build some more DFAs and Heavy Tanks hmmm #
- @dekrazee1 Ah, you wanna see if you can take me out on a small map hmmm…. been practising those too, hmmm… Unleash The Dogs Of Weewar… #
- @dekrazee1 I like your old map better than your new map. Sung to tune of Regurgitator’s "I like your old stuff better than your new stuff." #
- Hayden chops an inside edge onto his stumps, out in the 4th over. So no swag of sixes for the big guy tonight. Hussey’s at the crease now. #
- How come the Indian Premier League has so many blonde caucasian cheerleaders? Are there that many living in India? Or imported specially? #
- @Snipergirl Are you serious about that? Bleaching and skin whiteners? Amazing. They look so… white… like real white chicks #
- Patel goes for 21 runs, bowled Kumar, caught Kallis. Chennai Super Kings 2 down for 43 runs in the sixth over. #
- Howdy and welcome to new/recent followers @DaveRiley @Ryo @LroyJenkins @ArtKauffman @Cait @Shawnz Hope you can handle occasional weirdness! #
- Whackety Whack!! Hussey hits two sixes on the first two balls of 15th over. Second hit was 75 metres, pretty good! #
- @andrewbadera You should say hi to @Snipergirl she said "fuck I’m hungry" earlier. We have had a night of serious profanity here in Aust. #
- Wow, a meaty thwucking sound as the cricket ball slams into Umpire Billy Doctrow at 119km per hour. Think it hit him in the Walkie Talkie! #
- Ay Karamba! "These glutes are made for walking" Not quite what I thought it would be, but strangely compelling viewing. http://is.gd/9EW #
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Robert Aitken Roshi’s Ten Grave Precepts of Zen Buddhism
The Ten Precepts of Zen Buddhism are:
01. no killing
02. no stealing
03. no misuse of sex
04. no lying
05. no dealing in drugs
06. no speaking of faults of others
07. no praising yourself while abusing others
08. no sparing the Dharma assets
09. no indulgence in anger
10. no defaming the Three Treasures – Buddha, Dharma and Sangha
From Sydney Zen Centre: The Ten Grave Precepts
“The Ten Precepts formulate the realisation of inherent good. This is not the opposite of bad but rather it is self nature, Buddha-nature. The Precepts are a guide from self-centred delusion and attachment to the Buddha’s own complete realisation of truth and compassion, pointing the way to our own Buddha nature.”
Robert Aitken Roshi’s extensive elucidation of the Ten Grave Precepts may be found here at SpringHillZen.org
This evening I have been sitting Zazen contemplating the precepts. I am contemplating adoption of these ten precepts as the rules by which I govern my behaviour and conduct.
My belief is that committing oneself to the Dharma and joining a Sangha are not steps to be taken without serious contemplation.
Twitter Updates for 2008-04-26
- Just checked my AdSense account. First click over $2. $3.60 to be exact, that’s cool! I wish there was a way to see what keyword / link was! #
- @pureCaffeine "Post-BarCamp chaos on Weewar.com" - how it ended - link helps, yes… http://battleground3.weewar.com/game/68843 #
- My Followers / Following ratio currently 267 / 333 = 0.801801801801801801801801801 repeater. Strange days indeed. #
- Dessert: Just poured an espresso shot onto a scoop of ice-cream. Muahahahah. #
- @Danacea Hey happy birthday for yesterday! Just noticed, I’m catching up on about 3000 tweets. Flowers and wine, your guy is a sweetheart #
- My main inbox is now 3500 messages. With 2500 more in my Gmail inboxes, after 19 years online I’ve finally hit email attention bankruptcy #
- @ShannonRenee Sadly your ‘flippin idiot’ president is a scripted marionnette jerking (off) on command of the masters who tug on his strings. #
- @loudmouthman Thanks for feet good | shoes bad article. Met a health expert last night who wears ulta-thin rubber soled slipper style shoes. #
- @notaphysicist Hmm, a ten minute hike up Barker Street, turn left into the Spot and you can get yourself a rocky road and creamy flat white. #
- @dekrazee1 So Miss Combat Boots, when are we unleashing the WeeDogs of WeeWar? I can’t be up too late, got a yacht race tomorrow morning! #
- @dekrazee1 Orright, see you there!!! #
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