Author: KB
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Goodbye, for now | New Book
I think the time is right to drop the curtain on ‘Signs of Emergence’ / ‘The Complex Christ’ / ‘Der Jesus Faktor’ and move on. The idea of this blog has been to give some space to extend the ideas presented in that book, and, personally, I feel that’s been successful. But you shouldn’t keep…
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Real Snail Mail | Slowed Down Technology
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The people at ‘Boredom Research Labs’ have designed ‘the world’s first webmail service using real live snails.’ Yes you read that correctly. Actually, the thinking behind the project, or at least post-event justification, is to slow technology down, as a form of discipline or meditation. You send your email in the normal way, and this…
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Soul Synaesthesia
This month’s Believer documents a strange case from Hungary of audio-kinetic synaesthesia. The subject, whenever he hears certain words, ‘sees’ them as discrete and definite actions or gestures. Colour synaesthesia is more common: sounds or numbers are seen as distinct colours, and some estimates reckon that around 1 in 23 experience it. And I just…
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Into Great Silence ¦ Sound Pollution
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I enjoy most things about city life, but one of the perennial frustrations is noise. Light pollution, on the micro scale at least, is fairly easy to manage. We can shut our curtains or buy special blinds, and shut our eyes if need be. And, while some objects are foul to look at, we only…
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Then Again…
What’s the point in having a 42 day detention limit for terror suspects… if the best intelligence we have is just left lying around on trains?
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Bored
You guessed it. I’m going through one of those ‘bored of blogging’ phases. With TSK pumping out on average 5 posts it’s not like there’s a paucity of stuff for people to read. Sure it’ll pass. Or may be it won’t. The sun’s shining, so I’m not fussed which.