focus concentrates hatred

This morning I heard a news photographer describe his approach to
capturing images.

He said that if he saw a Palestinian soldier in the act of sharing candy
with a child he would not take the picture. He went on to say that even
if he did take the picture he would make sure it would never be published.

To me this view no longer upholds the libertarian ideals of journalism.
It is an activism whose purpose is to perpetuate a view of an inhuman
enemy incapable of being other than vermin to be expunged or spurned
even when in view.

Forgetting can not be easy. Forgiving seems impossible.

I hope never to know this.

I hope never to invoke such a testament.



-- in Kill Bill vol. 1 the subsumation of race by culture is evident in
the evokation of Old Testament vengance: a sword is forged to vanquish
the strength of cultural influence as both respect and revulsion for
what this influence represents: the child of the bride does not die but
is, instead, the progeny of a foreign (or confluence) of interests and
culture --

kill bill represents the meta-archetypes of manifest destiny

-- spoilers ahead for people who haven't witnessed Crouching Tiger
Hidden Dragon --

Blogger has upgraded its interface and services. I really like the new
look and am thrilled that I stayed in for some of the exciting added
features.

That's why today, I am submitting my blog entry via e-mail.

Wow. Does this every help me with spelling! Grammar, unfortunately,
still suffers under the impress of my digits and unorganized thoughts.

Welcome to the world of blogging, BTW, if you've never been here. You
might enjoy the catharsis of producing works anyone can read. But, hey, that's half the charm isn't it?

You can get famous among your friends and any relatives you can convince
to visit the echos of your innermost thoughts. I count myself fortunate
that I haven't gushed too much about the daily doses of life that
make up the 'real' me.

Perhaps the virtualization of self and the chance you might get caught
in the 'act' of revealing yourself is as much to do about being watched
over as praying by your bedside at night.

Me? I'm not going to say anything that will tell you more than what I
want you to hear. You're just going to have to read between the lines.

Oh, yeah, I nearly forgot... 'Kill Bill'... Violent... almost genocidal
in its scope if you believe in the meta-archetype theory.

Wait till I break down 'Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon' in that
menacing way I have of making a symbol out of everything. You aren't
going to believe me when I tell you the hidden message is communist
angst about the betrayal of Han culture by the very people who might
have inherited power.

If you remember standing as the observer in the end you may not know
that you represent the unwashed, the untrained in statecraft and power
brokerage, a thief in love with what he can barely understand watching
the heir apparent abandon hope that the Han can be saved from savage
teachings that only half-way interpret the lineage of sagacity.

Whether the Green Destiny can be retired for good remains a mystery.

The message is potent as is the death of the beloved master of the
sword, whose death across water on an island in a sea of dilapidated
housing, was as much caused by half-understood truths as the need to be
close to the plant that could save him.

It took me a while to believe that the movie was as much about the
automobile and sustainability as it is about the apprenticeship of
culture. But now that I see it I enjoy it all the more.

Kill Bill can wait for another day.


-- our fantasies create landscapes in which we can live and which, in
reality, could never be lived --

regulating for Robin of the Hood

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-- what you tell queen ants may be a betrayal of species --

craft as high art

The fascination held in art has pushed even Prince Charles to critique the placement and tenure of architectural constructs within the concept of community and history.

How good does it look seems secondary today to how much does it cost and how much can I get out of it once it is built.

Of course there is a lot that looks good that costs quite little, usually around the tended edges of the buildings our Prince so rightly provides both an a-political and timeless perspective on.

Royalty has its merits.

Perhaps in every country of the world there should be a royalty to which the individual would strive to aspire to please.

Mervyn Pym thought craft the art of the age he described in its ascent to royal hands. And the bejeweled Faberge eggs most certainly expand the imagination at the hatching of taste in patronage.

Today, in England, the Royal Family is not the same patron of the arts that the state is. While around the world public money upholds a corporate rubber stamping of low cost 'fixtures' hanging on walls, sitting on shelves and crouching in gardens.

There is something for everyone. And everyone gets something.

And craft is now a cog in the machine that feeds an assembly line on a landscape of freedom from expression.

When did the Royal touch give way to The Midas Touch?



-- if public money had been spent in making this piece you couldn't afford to read it --

successful interaction transcends inherent imperfections

The old adage 'what you put into it is what you get out' seems like the kind of commercial gloss you'd expect to find as the jingle for an ad selling gasoline for cars.

But dig a little deeper under the derma of this charm and you will find hidden truths that reveal a fractal equation about the role of consumption in making you who you are.

Consider the equation f=f+f(squared). In this iterative attempt to define an endless pattern, it is consumption that defines the product of succeeding generations. F is itself the product of a multiple of itself.

The limits placed on this endless pattern by quanta and the extension of quanta in the expression E=MC(squared) place survival cooperation squarely in the exhange of energy.

By extension, then, it is the interactions of cooperative effort that define the spirit of humanity in the face of having to live with consumption, and the exchange of energy on which this cooperation is based. That energy and matter are inseparable is quite apparent in the act of eating living organisms. To kill, however, goes directly against the spirit of interaction that separates us from the consumptive nature of the universe. I like to think of this as meaning that the infinite in interaction has given rise to a view of itself in human and other sentience along with a supporting ecosystem that is filled with marvelous beings which to share in the gift.

Therefore it is the triumph over consumption of and within our own species and the environment supporting all life that is the transcendent spirit over the inherent imperfections that make us seek the higher order in successful interactions.



-- don't smoke that ... it could kill someone else --

curriculum of interests

Social networking, online learning, and search engine technology may all benefit from the interrelated meta-view describing large chunks of information, however, when the aggregate of elements is put in the grinder and made into sausages, well, then you have an entirely different story.

What's missing in the meta approach moving toward an understanding of the fundamental similarities and the points on which each of the aforementioned claim interrelationship is meaning. Another way to describe this flaw is user context. The user contextualizes the elements which aggregate to form the meta definition of knowledge objects. This is not to say that the user is flawed, only that the implementation of the pivots among various forms lead to a specialization that breaks the unconcentrated infinity of the distance between relationships. In this infinity is defined as 0 where 0 means there is no distance between meaning, in effect making all elements the same thing. Only the starting point where the user enters infinity creates distance between related terms.

An example of this is in the construction of the human body and the bio-chemical/electric transfer of pain to the centre that processes the 'information'. The nerve impulse transmits a message that has no meaning where the 'keyword' was entered but that is given special meaning such as location, intensity, duration, etc. when the keyword is interpreted.

To admit that any feeling at the insertion point of the pain stimuli in any way affects locally would be to deny both the voracity of the interpreted message and stop bio-technology in its tracks.

However, this discussion is about the future of the Internet and the importance of the unconscious interpretation of the impulse where it relates to the distribution of keywords and contextual meaning along nerve pathways of the Internet body without the user's influence.

Suffice it to say that the goal is for the Internet to build itself not on the single user but on the curriculum of interests that now exist within its space.

This may, at first, seem paradoxical. If the user's influence is not to be taken into account how can a curriculum arise where there is not interest?

Your answer lies in making the user obsolete. You must not believe he is there. Your doubt will facilitate the service of the user.


--

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in the knot of meaning
not meaning
the genome of ontology

--

to the nuclear christ in benediction or a Passion play parody

the canticle we worry for 220 Amp service
strikes at us in the crucifixion of the nuclear christ

the Roman jabs to His offence that power must be
tells the corporate Pharisee His birth had not won
an argument for the central glory supply side economy

Tom and Pat Lawson engrave His cross
before the crown is put upon His head
with arguments in transient science
finalities of sentience and memory structured skein

while followers weep for the fishes and loaves
they did not bring to the gathering
putting all their faith in His magesty
but none in their own

Odd says help no one and love not your neighbor
the Lawson truth upholds the wounding
his crown to the fold

take piece and spread concentration
that the message of Odd may never be
but regret of his governance where
the effect to man Pontius did know

but in piety the Lawsons did weep
to strike the first blow with the soldier's hand
telling none that this pain in fire
could the unravelling of ideology free

soldiers carry on knife in the sheaf
while mass destruction soldiers on
and peace keeps itself clean
wearing the crown without blood

been there, done that

-- a day of rest is when we contemplate the sacrifices that can't make for our work --

the untrained and the un-life-tested form basis for stringer theory of journalistic integrity

Do you fear the cardboard box more in death or in life?

If your answer is life then you won't have a problem paying your way into the next generation by making small sacrifices on the altar of survival.

If your answer is death then you understand the institutionalization of a class of Buddhist monks who beg as it relates to the institutionalization of the crucifixion of Christ.


-- thanks to US author William Gibson for recognizing the patterns and telling us where it might put you if you say anything. he should have been a full-time journalist who trained for the job and isn't just stringing --

all is as it should be when it is one

hot is as cold
touch is not touch
with magnetic density
mingling entanglement

this feeling expresses
waveform anxiety
pressed against boundaries
that place us within

within a span of life
experiencing for god
the right hand rule
of limited consequence
only ruined by binary fools
who dislike the container
that time stood still

a forward and backward
viewpoints for sharing
the eyes and the window
for joy get to be



-- a great thanks to British author Phillip Pullman for the concept of the 'Subtle Knife', Max Planck for Planck's Constant and Mr. Einstein for a Relativity good time --

media mediation in the quanta (fixed) reality of virtualized social networks

The social network is 'healed' by face-to-face interactions in which conditionals are expressed without media mediation.

In Zen fashion then the easiest shape of the social network is a sphere the contemplation of which should realize 'it's a small world after all'.

-- the headline made more sense and is deprecating only to the infinity of reality --

ontology of the corporate self serves the team interest

So often when we talk of relationships and the classes within them we come to rest on definitions that take others into account but rarely touch on the self. The self is often regarded as a profile, a class if you will of employee.

Social networking has changed this bias, but it hasn't broken the chains of it in the way relationships are defined.

The ontology of the self is still immature. It resides in different forms everywhere, but it never grows beyond the confines of the interface people have to define elements of self. Social networking is tailored by how those defined elements extend the reach of the self to build teams for whatever function the kernel hierarchy attracts other selves to push as the team exploration.

From a philological standpoint the self is a polymorphic entity containing history as a launching point to new experiences.

Social networking is limited by extension. It is unable to exchange the self by attaching new definitions within limited interfaces. Experience is not carried into the future and change is limited by attaching the limits of a new interface.

This is the case for distributed accessible identities and a complete ontological definition of the self.

The morphology of the self and the low level elements that redefine the interface of self (rather than the self within the interface) is the future of social networking, online learning and species advancement in the machine of technically aided thought/interaction.

What cannot be forgotten is knowledge management ownership and access. The human in the technology must never be forgotten. Tricks of the trade must never be lost even as the bar is raised with specialization. Human validation of mastery must dominate as must face to face iterations for the purpose of advancement.

-- i grew up on television but never had the chance to validate my expertise in channel surfing --

the global GIS proposition to interconnect solutions

could this be a terrorist nightmare or a corporate dream

the Swedish solution

like it or leave it
bio accumulative or not
don't sell me GM
with canola and a piss pot

-- thank jahweh for europe / be it so --

mobility future not firmly grasped by electricity policy

Sustainability in a generation is such a great idea.

The years up to 2012 are very important in terms of greenhouse gas emission reduction by virtue of the expected launch of fuel cell vehicles to market at that time. Estimates place 50% penetration by fuel cells in the vehicle market as late as 2030, however, there are several developments ongoing that will likely accelerate development and adoption of related technologies, not the least of which is die activated solar panels and residential wind along with regulatory frameworks to promote distributed generation and optimize the capture of intermittentcy for redistribution.

India is running out of uranium but has firmly entrenched nuclear in its generating mix in pace with its rapid growth. China is similarly inclined to grow, but has made some tummy grumbling sounds about being hungry for renewable energy -- probably if the price is right and generation can satisfy the enormity of its growth. Watch out for Canada's nuclear extraction industry in the next few years exporting to more than just the US and parts of Eastern Europe. India is a prime and very large customer. Due to transportation restrictions India will likely be purchasing up to 8% enriched.

Remember that Canada's regulatory barriers to nuclear do not exist. Nuclear is a favorable technology to government seeking to supply the needs of the hungry and the weak. Even though Canada is considered 30% less efficient than its US neighbor in energy efficiency subsidies have essentially strangled sustainability, in particular energy conservation. The culture is slowly changing but may not be fast enough with the arrival of fuel cell vehicles.

Electrolysis of water is not considered the most efficient method of producing hydrogen only the most convenient beyond steam reform of natural gas or gasoline. Ethanol is poised to make a very large dent, but only as far as portable fuel goes. The market in cars will likely demand designs that incorporate either ethanol or hydrogen storage or both.

The marriage of hydrogen and nuclear is a done deal without immediate action. In Ontario it will take a year from now to implement even an office of promotion to look at sustainability legislative action. This is dangerous and could be costly.


-- someone asked me about residential fuel cells to spark the rudimentary analysis from my research above/ your comments are much appreciated as is any verifiable information about government timelines, industry insider information and the like --

I've been following advancements on residential fuel cells on several fronts.

At this point the technology is both too expensive and not as mature as some would like it. The hydrogen infrastructure is also a concern, which is now being solved by other hydrogen feedstock such as ethanol.

There are tests ongoing in Japan using a 1 kW model and in the US a fuel cell has been developed that is somewhat smaller than a regular furnace. It converts ethanol onboard.

Most of my fuel cell research concentrates on mobility, but there are obviously many important overlaps between portable power, mobility and home power.

There seem to be a lot of issues needing to be resolved with respect to market penetration of fuel. I don't think anyone is seriously looking at hydrogen piped in at the household level. The connection between hydrogen, water and electricity is still too attractive even with energy loss. The other indicator is that fuel companies have been protected by government from having to provide hydrogen at the pump because of the high cost of conversion. Part of the reasoning seems to be that the cost is too high all at once to penetrate the market at 30%, which is considered critical mass for self-sustained adoption of hydrogen. Essentially, I read this as meaning it will never happen because adoption of vehicles won't be in any concentrated market where distribution ownership is also similarly concentrated.

All monies invested, R&D efforts and technology transfer indicates that it is ethanol that is the chosen source of our future hydrogen needs. Nuclear is bound to follow quickly on the heels of that if oil consumption is also to be reduced and fuel cell vehicles become immediately popular. Home power and portable power will be waiting in the wings for low cost solutions to come from the automotive industry, as they already have done.

the science of extraction cannibalism

or the science of cannibalism extraction... you decide...

[moreonthislater -- retals i ht no erom]

What are you supposed to do when money is given to the government of your country to develop an energy extraction industry that runs power lines or pipelines past your home, providing neither you nor your countrymen any economic or social benefit. The energy is shipped away overhead and your children continue to go hungry.

Is this a socially just application of market penetration and technology adoption?

Is this indemic only to the developing world?


-- my wife and children have left me for my blog --

meta mutations: a search for principal equations

The living of science is not possible.

Somewhere a spirit seeks to harmonize with the beginning and the end of things, and never along the path to righteousness is it known when the thread will snap its judgement, forcing past cracked lips no utterance of truth to this world.

In the movement of planets Kepler found bodies reborn from dust. A finite clockwork of aggregation captured in the motion of mathematics, knowable by us only before the infinite lies still in a time beyond our imagining or measure.

Our concentrations orbiting an inward moving nucleus of species survival splinters an embrittled margin with an ever widening gap. Equations govern the motions of the spirited. The mouse takes the cheese.

In the search for a specialty your path creates an apprenticeship to this science with no mentor but an unframed picture of what might be.

hating oil is passe

No, you read that right... The title DOES read 'hating' NOT 'heating'.

Of course, as we all know, hate is a negative way of expressing one's incapacity to understand, empathize or otherwise find a more constructive and life-affirming way of getting their point across.

So hating oil is passe. It has to be. Thinking otherwise would be tantamount to describing your need for food energy as unnecessary and evil... follow this and you must realize I am saying oil is a necessity of life.

Well it is, isn't it?

It isn't whether you do live without oil that paints you into a corner it is whether you can live without it. Sure, you could make a personal choice to live without oil, but you wouldn't be able to do it. Not even the local health food store goes without relying on oil, or the byproduct of oil, at some point in the chain of inter-nationalized inter-dependency to source product and deliver it to your door.

And no matter what you do about it, you aren't going to make a dent in the foundation upon which you live, even by making a conscious choice about what you buy at the store, put on your table, shade yourself with under the heat of the sun in the summer or heat yourself with in the cold heart of winter. You might as well give up.

Statistics are against you.

Even in the hydrogen economy carbon emissions won't be 100 per cent sequestered. Right now 90 per cent of the hydrogen produced in the world is sourced from reformed fossil fuels. You're still pumping oil out of the ground or releasing natural gas from the crypt of time to extract its precious hydrogen cargo.

The European Union Commission on Sustainable Development has released a draft of its proposed directive governing overall commitments to energy efficiency and energy security. In this draft the EU targets a 60 per cent reduction in carbon emissions by the year 2050.

While this may be good news to some (remember, it takes roughly 80 years for the effects of emissions to dissipate in the 'open' environment) it doesn't mean that oil has been removed from the picture. In fact, there are no specific targets contained in this document that set limits to oil development, procurement or distribution. And nothing in the draft hints that oil companies should now reform existing supplies of refined oil into hydrogen.

The open market dominates. Governments in the industrialized world have all taken a similar tact to the European Union member nations with the caveat that in Canada great consideration is given over to nuclear where nuclear has been implemented already. Private investor ownership greatly guarantees nuclear longevity and the issue is likely to rage on with ferocity for many generations until renewable investments are more attractive than nuclear ones.

Incidentally, nuclear is considered a clean technology by Environment Canada, Industry Canada, Natural Resources Canada, and is an ingrained part of Ontario's electrical generation mix, standing at a whopping 76% of today's base load capacity.

Maybe I should be taken out on the cinder path and punished for my viewpoint on oil. But just who is going to do that? Who is the one person I know that has the right to do that? Maybe a marsupial, but doubtful any human other than a scattered few over there on the dark continent who decided not to join in the agrarian revolution or the following industrial revolution, but seem likely, instead, to develop a footprint in the communications revolutions.

Well, I've said my corporate piece and forgotten the one thing that does make a difference. Careful, it's touchy and feely and could get all over you if you aren't careful. Get out your bleeding heart alert because the word of the day is... investment. No, you thought I was going to say 'togetherness', didn't you. Well, private investment is a togetherness of a sort. Investment in conservation is just another form of paying yourself and the other investors who hold a common share in the same endeavor.

The same could be said of community power initiatives. There are, however, two problems. One is that someone else's investment interests may already be in the way, and two, it isn't necessarily fair that given you can invest in a renewable source of energy and be an owner of a corporate entity, that everyone is going to be given the chance to do so. This second point is probably the one that tells you your investment is going to pay off, no matter what else you can do about it.

We are damn lucky right now that the entire spectrum of generation has been opened to the public. This is a bold and risky move. Special interests like oil aren't going to like it, but be honest, just because someone works for a company you don't particularly like, is no reason not to invite them to invest alongside you. You can either tell them to keep it quiet, or invite them out to the meeting. Chances are even if they believe their technology is cleanest the chance they are offered to invest and profit will at least help your renewable initiative off the ground.

So, the people you should be asking to invest aren't the converted. The people you should be asking to invest are the people who work for and already profit in other energy forms like oil and nuclear.

You might be surprise how willing they are to work with you when you are polite.



-- if I had a polite bone in my body I might convince others I am a Canadian --

the impiety of trial balloons

A trial balloon is a waste of a good piece of man-made material.

The problem with trial balloons is that the people who release them so they can gauge the reaction of the people watching don't really know where they're going or where they'll land for sure. So much time is spent on the prevailing winds that gusts and blasts are ignored in favor of popular prognostication.

Unless you want to place a secular government in someone else's country.

Next time the news reports the loss of yet another monument to organized religion at public place of institution I am going to remember that its being taken away signifies the intent to evangelize the enforced cooperation of someone who doesn't share those same symbolized beliefs by the removal of something someone else holds dear.

Freedom is an entanglement of various forms of subterfuge. Sometimes you have to sacrifice yourself for someone else. Sometimes it is they who are the sacrifice. The altar is pretty commonly understood to be impermanent, but people on both sides use it anyway.


-- the iconoclast is the iconography of the symbolic future --

the morphology of an unconscious artificial intelligence

Have you analyzed the transformation of the social network from TCP/IP switched HTTP containment and element language constructs to a true relational model based on a fractally inorganic morphology of knowledge/criticality intelligence dependent on human activity?

The person in the machine exist along every path to destination. Bandwidth limits pathway determination. Speed forms new synergies passing the ability to take in all relations. Distributed processing. Distributed accessible identity. Distributed subconscious terms. Collected individual, shared and collectivist (discipline-centric) destinations. Keystones locking the arch of intelligence.

The search engine in the sleep of the 'intelligent' machine knows where the hits are.


-- I swear my head gets bent every time I sit at a terminal keyboard --