Posted 8/18/2002 01:23:22 AM
your identity is your most valuable asset -
spend it wisely.

identity marketing

Posted 8/17/2002 10:01:04 PM
blowing cash is fun by way of andy...

Posted 8/16/2002 07:58:37 PM
BBC NEWS | World | Africa | In pictures: South Africa's shack chic

Posted 8/16/2002 02:08:59 PM
Christianity started out in Palestine as a fellowship. Then it moved to Greece and became a philosophy, then it went to Rome and became an institution, and then it went to Europe and became a government. Finally it came to America where we made it an enterprise.
-Richard Halverson
Former Chaplain to the USoA Senate
(via Jason Evans via Coop)

Posted 8/16/2002 02:08:46 PM
...
The language is leaving me in silence
...
Changes are shifting outside the words
...
And people are being real crazy
...
~annie lennox~

Posted 8/16/2002 02:06:30 PM
happy eloping to kim and ed.
tear up sanfran.

Posted 8/16/2002 01:55:28 PM

Posted 8/16/2002 01:30:26 PM
some thoughts via karen neudorf via cooper:

The Celtic saints of earlier centuries made much of the idea of peregrinatio, a difficult-to-translate word that suggests an open-ended journey. It was not uncommon for medieval Irish monks to set out with no destination; they left with only the simple impulse to go and seek... the idea was to learn to live as travelers, pilgrims, "guests of the world," as sixth-century Irishman Saint Columbanus put it. There was to be a creative openness, even if that meant living in a kind of exile so as not to hold too tightly to one's ambitions and spiritual itinerary. The idea was to leave behind the known and safe to find a truer basis for security.

Posted 8/16/2002 12:25:56 PM
Many die too late, and a few die too early.
The doctrine still sounds strange:
'Die at the right time!'
Nietzsche, "Thus Spoke Zarathustra"

i'm excited. two of my good friends are writing and directing a play in september "space to occupy (and other suburban dilemmas)" is being written by david hopkins and directed as (tentatively) "dreaming awake" by aja jones. if you need an indie theatre fix come to N.TX in sept.

Posted 8/16/2002 11:57:53 AM
another in the paratheological gauntlet series

:systematic theology:

a fragile intellectual model
art to the initiated
never directly actionable
an empty closed loop truth

a key thief
a beautiful monstrosity
neither entering the kingdom
nor allowing those who desire to

Posted 8/16/2002 11:53:46 AM
does asking for $100 Trillion make this a little bit carnivalesque?

Posted 8/16/2002 11:49:07 AM
Executives play with Legos

Legos work because they let executives visualize abstract concepts like ‘value chain’ or ‘process engineering’ by actually building their interpretations of them,” says Kimberly Jaussi, an organizational behavior and leadership professor at the School of Management at Binghamton University in New York.

Posted 8/16/2002 08:50:49 AM
current CD.. yes, it has not been burned yet:
buddha beats disc 1

Posted 8/16/2002 08:37:27 AM
Q22 - this is why "ends" never justify "means."

ends come and go--the means are all that we have and are. only in an instant satisfaction or flippantly power centered cultural mindset can the ends justify the means. when the means (how we act) define us we enter into a foundational, multi-generational movement of transformation for our planet and its cultures through making choices and brokering agreements that are more broadly "right" not simply expedient.

Posted 8/16/2002 08:24:50 AM
you wanna foundation? you wanna foundation? YOU CAN'T HANDLE A FOUNDATION!

with all the whining back and forth between wannabe progressives and wannabe defensives (a new usage for defense... cool) about meaning and truth and foundations i thought i would share the only place on record where the J man addresses the issue.

why do you call me, "master, master" and then not do what i say?

i will show you what one who comes to me, listens to what i say and enacts the way is really like. that person is like one who is building a house. they dig deeply and lay the foundation on rock. the rain falls in torrents, floods rise and the wind beats upon the house, but it does not fall. it's foundation is rock.

but the one who listens and does nothing is like a person who builds a house on sand without a foundation. when the river floods it collapses immediately and it is destroyed.

Q22

that is it. for jesus it seems the foundation is the life we live. the people who gathered around jesus in the first generation or two were called people of the way. the bedrock of truth is enacting a way--a dharma. i again suggest that, in the other kingdom, it is not about being right so much as it is about being right.

Posted 8/16/2002 08:02:26 AM
my friend senator just posted one of my favorite lines by the character lloyd dobler in Say Anything:

A career? I've thought about this quite a bit sir and I would have to say considering what's waiting out there for me, I don't want to sell anything, buy anything or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed or buy anything sold or processed or repair anything sold, bought or processed as a career. I don't want to do that. My father's in the army. He wants me to join, but I can't work for that corporation, so what I've been doing lately is kick-boxing, which is a new sport... as far as career longevity, I don't really know. I can't figure it all out tonight, sir, so I'm just gonna hang with your daughter.

Posted 8/16/2002 12:04:32 AM

"What brand of crack is Ashcroft smoking?" by way of sotto

Camps for Citizens: Ashcroft's Hellish Vision

Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft's announced desire for camps for U.S. citizens he deems to be "enemy combatants" has moved him from merely being a political embarrassment to being a constitutional menace.

Posted 8/15/2002 02:29:32 PM
Sperm transplants should spur debate

...is (it) right to transplant reproductive cells across species... almost everything that goes on in medicine, agriculture and animal breeding involves something that is “unnatural.” The ethical question is whether there is sufficient benefit in doing something unnatural to let it be done.

is sufficient benefit a weighty enough argument for experimental research, therapies or products when one is facing the vast ocean of the unknown with regard to our bio-chemistry as a species? as a cosmos? i'm all for progress. i just don't trust it.

Posted 8/15/2002 08:34:45 AM
BBC NEWS | Health | Secrets of keeping coffee's kick

DARPP-32: understanding the caffeine high at a biochemical level

Posted 8/14/2002 11:18:29 PM

jeevay pakistan!
fifty-five years of independence
aug 14, 2002

Posted 8/14/2002 11:07:29 PM
DallasNews.com | Iranian Leader Criticizes U.S. |

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, asked about Mr. Khatami's comments, said: "They are permitting al-Qaeda to be present in their country today, and it may very well be that they, for whatever reason, have turned over some people to other countries. But they've not turned any to us."

... why would they? last week you called them the axis of evil.

Posted 8/14/2002 05:42:39 PM
AOL takes SEC filing down to wire

The new SEC requirement for CEOs to certify results could lead to an interesting evolution of power in companies publicly trading in the USoA. A shift could be underway such that powerbrokers move into less culpable positions to mitigate personal risk creating a figure head CEO role.

Posted 8/14/2002 03:03:12 PM

FOXP2 - the first gene definitively linked with human language

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | First language gene discovered

...What may be harder to digest is that such a momentous outcome as language and culture seems to be so exquisitely dependent on a physically infinitesimal genetic difference that allowed for a certain kind of facial movement in our ancestors...

Posted 8/14/2002 02:48:26 PM
The Identity Politics of Race - an interesting thread on the Axxess board.

Posted 8/14/2002 02:11:27 PM

The Muslim Moderator

When an ex-surfer from the Bay Area can become a Muslim authority, it’s a sign that the West is now part of the Muslim world, too.

Posted 8/14/2002 09:04:11 AM

Dot-Commers on a Mom and Pop Track

Mr. Benavidez, an M.B.A. and former investment banker, had been out of work since October, when he was laid off from his six-figure job at Bolt, a Manhattan Internet company.

After a couple months of reading and sleeping until noon, he had begun to interview for jobs, but things weren't looking so good. Mr. Benavidez described himself as "just professionally depressed."

But something about that hot dog documentary caught his attention.

"I noticed that everybody who was being interviewed was happy," Mr. Benavidez said. "The people who worked behind the counters, the owners, the customers, they were all smiling. I told my girlfriend, `I want to make people that happy.' "

A few hours later, Mr. Benavidez said, he had an epiphany: "I'll do hot dogs."

Posted 8/13/2002 11:05:45 PM
thanks to my friend winter runner we were on the list for a*teens at the smirnoff tonight.
this show was a lot of fun. ayesha and i loved it.
thanks winter.

Posted 8/13/2002 08:25:33 AM
whatever your hand finds to do
do it with all your might
there is no work
no knowledge
no wisdom
in the grave where you are going
ecclesiastes://9.10

Posted 8/13/2002 12:38:19 AM
the jordan is waiting

Posted 8/12/2002 08:52:57 AM
Creative Commons - shining a spotlight on sharing

Posted 8/11/2002 01:28:25 PM
--the gauntlet--

pomo christian thinkers on themselves:
revolutionary

the state of postmodern christian thinking:
marketecture