(WWW) Deprogramming us
deprogramming.us are you burnt out on programming? did the dotcom bust you? too unstructured for structured programming? are you a messy, impulsive, luser in search of an attention span? don't let the software cult execute you! cast off your markov chains and start deprogramming! introducing deprogramming.us - e.p. #1: don't let the dotcom bust you. Current single: "exorcist" (why is it so hard to find good devil worship software?) Also includes: ritalinworld (some day, all the world will be on ritalin, and we'll all be screensavers.), prozac.pl (happy mindless self-destruction!), as well as the drug-free hits nevermind.pl and conceptual.pl http://deprogramming.us - psychiatric psoftware, and a whole lot less. ------- Translation for the un-deprogrammed ------- (we didn't write this part - someone else did!) The dotcom boom turned programming into slavery - at least in some parts... Software creation was governed by the cult of scientific management: Experimentation lost out to efficiency. Originality lost out to modularity. Commercial production philosophy dictated that code must be well-behaved, reusable and interchangable - as its authors must also be. Programmers dutifully followed the algorithms to survival and stock options in lock step, eighty hours a week. And then they slept. Meanwile, in the US, the number of people prescribed Ritalin and anti-depressants rose dramatically. And we're not just talking about programmers. Where once left-handed people were made to write right-handed lest it be evidence of Satanic posession, now, the unprogrammed and unprogrammable were expected to be proactively and happily drugged. Feeling much better off than they did 4 years ago, the stage was set for a new patriotism (except for those with allergic reactions.) Phew! The boom is over. Deprogramming begins. We enter the renaissance of the dot com bust! Deprogramming.us contains both software meant to be run and software meant to be seen but not run. Projects are small and based on impulsive thoughts. Algorithms tend to be simple, messy, project-specific and the result of intuition and experimentation rather than planning. No smart code! No mega-projects! But some f(r)iendly software thoughts for the end of the day... http://deprogramming.us -- Software that won't earn you the respect of your peers Also visit our forkwar project at: http://www.runme.org/project/+forkwar
Action replay, mirrors neurons and mentally ?going through the motions?
A striking and unexpected paper in the FinancialTime about mirror neurons: neurons which are activated when mimicking the actions of others. They have been discovered by Giacommo Rizzolatti (at the University of Parma, Italy). The paper is much more focused on inferring other actions when carrying out a joint action like dancing (uh I use a bit too much the vocabulary of the CSCW/herbet clark?s theory of action here!) Research shows that when subjects watch films of ballet or capoeira (a Brazilian martial art), the same areas in the brain are activated as those used to execute the movements. When watching motion, the brain ?moves? along every step of the way, so much so that it stimulates physiological responses - such as increased oxygen consumption - to the point where the weak-hearted might suffer a heart attack merely watching strenuous sports. This is why mentally ?going through the motions? is just about as good as rehearsing to improve a dancer?s or sportsman?s performance. To observe, then, is to dance. (?) This finely honed perception of human movement, the ability to read body language - and readily to perceive and express our own - is known as social intelligence. This capacity to navigate our social world means we can work out ?where others are coming from? (are they angry or happy?) or ?where they are going? (are they coming to yell at me or to ask for help?) so we know how to react accordingly. To mirror others is to empathise, using the same mental rehearsal of the body language of others that allows us to put ourselves in someone else?s shoes. Some of us fail miserably, while others can really ?feel your pain?. It enables us to recognise a friend at a distance just by their gait and subconsciously to acquire the mannerisms of our spouse. And it is why, like yawning, dancing is contagious. This is very interesting and relevant to our new project at the lab: we are stuyding mutual modeling: the psychological project involved when people do inference about others? actions/goals/purposes. http://tecfa.unige.ch/perso/staf/nova/blog/2005/05/14/action-replay-mirrors-neurons-and-mentally-going-through-the-motions/
Moederschap als politiek
Swaneagle is een americaanse activiste die schrijf over het alleenstaande moeder zijn. Dat is haar voornaamste thema als politiek activisme. Blessings So Saddam Hussein has been hanged in the name of killer vengeance. I am sickened as much as i am by all the senseless killing taking place in Iraq; the 100,000 plus deaths of Iraqi citizens, the close to 3,000 killings of US soldiers and all the attendent misery and waste. We know that those who profit never risk their lives and only seek more victims so they may accumulate more blood soaked wealth. I am filled with sorrow in a way i have not been filled since my pregnancies. Sorrow is leaden and ultimately terminal. One of my children told me she believes in the death penalty for certain crimes deserving of "higher" punishment. The conversation we had about the looming fate of Saddam altered my view of myself as a parent. I feel deep failure as i cannot fully live a life of nonviolence burdened as i am by my fatal flaws. I fail daily and yet keep striving for something better than the culture of war, vengeance and brutuality. Being a single parent may be the single most lethal occupation outside of being a soldier. The conflict with one's own offspring, who so take on the values of the dominator, is one designed to drain the life from any hope for peace. I watch my children turn away from every value i have struggled with all my being to instill. I am seen as little more than a conduit for their existence as i do not provide the frills of middle classness and inflict upon them the reality of a semi primitive life if they dare spend time in my tiny space. Why, i wonder, did i dare become a mother? My mistakes flog me continually leaving me little room these days to focus on anything else. It is a microcosm of the state of the planet. I wonder at the total lack of inspiration this country provides to any fragment of resistance. Any who succeed are so isolated and silenced that i have no inkling of what may be punching it's way towards solution. What fate awaits us... How can we be part of such a murderous, genocidal machine, the likes of which has never been encountered in all of humanity's brief time upon our fragile earth? Hitler would be proud. I am shamed by where i am from and the nonstop genocide that continues on the invaded continents of the amerikkkas leaving millions lifeless without end. All amerikkka seems to do is spread death and destruction to the masses and riches to the very wealthy. What kind of legacy is this? I denounce it as much as i denounce my own failures. What hope is there? What? In struggle, swaneagle
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Crooner
Grappig, ik ben veslaafd aan Lost. Bekijk alle afleveringen op dvd. Soms vier op een avond. Ziek heet dat.
Crooner
Mijn kabel is afgesloten. Geen tv meer. Heb het ding al een half jaar niet meer aanstaan. Niet dat ik nu NUTTIGE dingen doen, maar toch.
Crooner
Wat voor drama? (Niet dat ik into roddel ben, maar als moralist wil ik toch graag mijn zegje doen...)
Crooner
Nee, dan therapie. Heb vier jaar lang met een mattenklopper op een kussen geslagen, et voila, ik zit weer in de ziektewet omdat de poppen gaan dansen. Ik wil geheald worden! Waar is een tv-dominee als je er een nodig hebt!
Crooner
Ik ben ook door iemand geblokkeerd. Vind ik reuze opwindend. Als ik erachter kom wie het is ga ik met haar trouwen, ook als het een man is. Lekkerrrrr blokkerennnnn.
Crooner
Ik denk dat ik binnenkort eens naar een healer ga. Ik wil ook wel eens New Agen. Iedereen zit maar lekker met zijn chakra te spelen, en arme Crooner moet aan de pillen. Mooi niet.
