Great Workouts & other goodies For All Levels and Every Body

http://tinyurl.com/2y2xzt

yes,  it's an Amazon list.  I'm looking at fitness for seniors

Kurt Vonnegut, Writer of Classics of the American Counterculture, Dies at 84 - New York Times

A Hero of mine leaves us...

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/11/books/11cnd-vonnegut.html?

_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

The Not-Aflac Mascot is a GOAT!

Just saw this new Aflac ad...

Guy asks "Do we have Aflac" Boss says "no" guy Says "does our insurance
pay when we're off work"(or something like that).

They switch to picture of GOAT eating printouts from copier! GOAT says
"na-a-a"

The ad continues in that vein going drastically downhill.

And FUNNY. Brought tears to my eyes.

The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations

http://tinyurl.com/226qgw

The Starfish and the Spider explores what happens when starfish take on spiders (such as the music industry vs. Napster, Kazaa, and the P2P services that followed). It reveals how established companies and institutions, from IBM to Intuit to the US government, are also learning how to incorporate starfish principles to achieve success. The book explores:
* How the Apaches fended off the powerful Spanish army for 200 years
* The power of a simple circle
* The importance of catalysts who have an uncanny ability to bring people together
* How the Internet has become a breeding ground for leaderless organizations
* How Alcoholics Anonymous has reached untold millions with only a shared ideology and without a leader

I could re-title this "Committees Without Chairs"

language learning through music

> earworms mbt©-accelerated language learning to groovy music.
>
> By just listening to these music CDs you pick up a language. It's
> an amazingly simple idea and it really works! You just listen to
> these songs as if you were listening to the radio. But instead of
> just relaxing, you are relaxing and learning. After just a few
> listenings, foreign words keep popping up in your head. It's almost
> like magic!
>
> Take a look: www.earwormslearning.com

good idea.... couldn't find the price

Language Learning Podcasts & other resources

http://www.word2word.com/podad.html

has link to "free online language courses"

Has podcast links for French, Spanish, and other languages.

YMMV

Coffee.... one of five Surprisingly Healthy Foods

http://www.webmd.com/diet/guide/5-surprisingly-healthy-foods?page=3

One real benefit for java lovers: your morning wake-up call can help satisfy your body's daily fluid needs. Studies show that coffee does not dehydrate habitual drinkers, as once believed, and can count toward your daily fluid quota, says Zied.

Another plus is that coffee is naturally calorie-free. But if you load it up with cream, sugar, whipped cream, and/or flavored syrup, the extra fat and calories can undermine any potential benefits.

There  has been this big discussion around here as to whether coffee counts toward daily fluid intake.  According the the above it does'  of course I realize that there's an argument that six cups of coffee a day isn't a good idea,  but at least I get my fluids

[daily dose of imagery]

http://wvs.topleftpixel.com/

guy puts up photo every day with interesting design elements.

a favorite show... Bump in the Night

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bump_in_the_Night

NOT available on NetFlix

Latest Work By Eddie [Breen]

http://edbreen.livejournal.com/

This is wild "piggyback" art

eddi breen, artist

http://eddiebreen.com/abouteddie/abouteddie.html

Art can neither be good or bad, only interesting or boring, says Eddie Breen, the leading practitioner of piggyback art. He takes paintings that he considers boring or incomplete, and inserts nuns, flying jesuses, flame people, or demons, changing the meaning of the composition in ways to suit his visions, to co opt the elements and create his own worlds.

Crisis in local newspapers...

apparently local newspapers are really biting the dust.

Dave Winer had an article (and proposed solution) about it at

http://stories.scripting.com/2007/03/24/troubleAtTheChronicle.html

referring to this...

SF Chronicle in Trouble?:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/03/sf_chronicle_in.html

One point by Winer is that newspapers should give blogs to people they interview,  thus tapping both expertise and the new "citizen" journalism.

AustinBlogger added me ( Jeff Imig ) to his "twitter" friends

http://austinblogger.com/blog/ <- I have no idea why this guy added me to his list.  Maybe promoting something.  Maybe because I'm a follower of http://twitter.com/davewiner

Me (jeff) on http://twitter.com  :  http://twitter.com/mutualaid  <- thats me "mutualaid"

The whole idea of twitter is answering the question "what are you doing now?"

I'm not even sure what the whole point of twitter is,  but it's growing by leaps and bounds; seems that as long as your list of friends stays short it would be of use,  but if you have 2 or 3 THOUSANDS of friends,  how do you keep up with one friend?

I am seriously looking for the answer of that.  Am I just missing the point of it?  etc

Unitarian behavior process and covenant

http://tinyurl.com/2btzog <- Google Search This is so boring. "Right Behavior" for example: http://tinyurl.com/2azqdv <- Emerson UU What has happened? Suddenly we can't cope with bizarre behavior anymore? We going to beat up on people because their craziness disturbs us? Like a leading promoter of Right Behavior says... this has always been with us. Ok... lets see a list of "Wrong Behavior"...

• Dribbling pea soup when you eat.
• talking too much
• Smelling of wine when you come to church
• Smelling when you come to church
• wearing a hat in church (my fav because I'm guilty, no complaints but constant questions)
• wearing the wrong kind of hat
• not wearing a hat
• women wearing sweat pants instead of nice dresses. That just disturbs some people no end. Really.
• Blue jeans?
• Wearing flag pins?
• Not wearing flag pins?
• Not standing at the right time?

I'm tempted to say "what a bunch of panty waist bullsh!t", but that would definitely be bad behavior. Oops. Polish The Pitchforks, Please.

Obama's Pastor Speaks Out « Skeptical Brotha

http://skepticalbrotha.wordpress.com/2007/03/21/obamas-pastor-speaks-

out/

about the pastor's interaction with the New York Times.

Hero

I just watched Hero (with Dustin Hoffman) again.

I had forgotten that a major theme was about newspapers.

But the 'true' story was about many things, and it just devastates me.

Truth, caring, love, poverty, and Heroism.

Jeff

How do you read 3000 pages of anything by this Friday?

You get a popular blog to point their readers to it:

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/002809.php

A better organizing system might be nice, but what the heck!

SkyScout $400

http://tinyurl.com/2z6kwa  (BH Photo Video)

$400 is actually pretty cheap for what it does.

SkyScout ... International Academy of Science

http://www.science.edu/TechoftheYear/Finalists/SkyScout/SkyScout.htm

a gps unit built into a hand held telescope... tells you a) what
you're looking at, or b) how to find something you're looking for.

with indicators in the field of view.

Nice, compact unit. I'm not even going to try to find the price :-(

I would consider it a sort of "Reverse GPS" unit... I'm here, then
it tells me where what I'm looking at is.

[Is that twisted grammar? Ha.]

The Zen of Basement Reorganization & Cleanup

Ok, Maybe it's Tao, or even Feng Shui.

I sit for a while in the middle of the chaos and stare at it.

Eventually I see a puzzle piece that fits. Move Z127 to A013 for
example.

The next day, move something.

Then stare some more.