The conversation thing

To me, the most obvious sign that God exists is the fact that all this immense universe is obeying the same laws. Over and over again. I mean, a physics law is something that only has meaning in a mind. Otherwise it is just plain jabberish, yet all planets, all single objects (that do not possess a mind to understand the law) respect the same laws to an infinite manner. So there must be a mind/intelligence other than ours, behind these laws.

For instance, let’s take the moon… If there were no intelligence behind the sollar system, at one point the Moon would just say: what is it with me that I keep on rotating close to this planet?!?!!? What am I crazy, let’s ditch this stupid law of gravitational attraction and see some other solar systems babyyyy (more precisely, some very disorganised solar systems, as the gravitational law would only work from time to time)

Or, imagine that everything that is in this world and universe, be it you or me, or the newspaper or the sun or an entire galaxy is made out of electrons and protons (actually here is the precise list of fundamental particles [ro]). All things, all of them… and still all electrons and protons and neutrons keep doing the same old rotation with such a regularity that you would think it’s a sisif kind a job. If I were an electron, to tell you the truth, I would’ve quitted my job a loooong-loooong time ago… hey, I’m a creative, cannot stand to do the same thing over and over again. Yet all matter in this universe continues to obey the physics laws. Even I (that have a mind and declare myself as creative) cannot fall off a cliff and go upwards, unless I have a system of propulsion that would also obey the physics laws.

hihiii …. imagine the spin particles saying … why bother spinning like crazy to have this flower bloom … I need a vacation man, I’m getting dizzy already

How do you see the immutability of these laws?

Actually, not just in the RISD team, but leading the Rhode Island School of Design. Even though I never was to MIT, all those years of constantly following his work with the Media Arts and Sciences Department leave me now with a feeling of nostalgia cute! what can digital information do to a very sane person

I hope, and I know, his work will continue to be inspirational and I sure hope one day I get to meet the idea generator man in person.

One of the venues in Biennal of Sydney is Revolution online a postmodern collection of artworks from 1920s Dada… to this year’s interactive work. Check it out!

I’ve got mail! not e-mail, dearest beloved, but regular mail. From whom? Ars Electronica.

Last year, Ars Electronica was about privacy, and how it is slowly but completely dissapearing from our universe… This year the festival is about the new cultural economy and its new limits on intellectual property.

Internet and technology has made copyrighted information become inadequate. The costs of its production gets lower and lower… things that used to cost a few years ago, are now plain free, but other businesses emerge, so the final user is not the one charged, but by his actions, he actually makes money for the business that gives him the free goods.

The commerce is nowadays a threesome .. it used to be a couple before that - you gave me something, I gave you the money for it. Today, you give me something, I spend some time on your website, advertisers get their commercials seen by me, you get paid by them heheee …

Curator - Joichi Ito

I don’t know about you, but I have Ymess since 1998. So that makes approximately 10 years … OMG, until I wrote these words, I did not even realize so much time passed by …

As time went by, I became more and more flooded with people in my messenger list… people that i did not know how to classify anymore… Business, friends, different work places, university … sometimes I have personal friends that I do business with and have done university with … that is a challenge

I know some people have the guts to just delete from their list anyone they have not spoken with in 3 months … I could not do that … so right now I have in my Ymess list 329 ids, categorized into 12 groups. The most relevant groups are only 4, with a total of 56 people…

Hey, Yahoo messenger Project Manager guy … if you are interested in what the consumer would need, please take into considerations these things:

first, groups should have the possibility to include other groups as well

secondly, any contact should have something like tags associated. So when I want to see all business partners, I could see them no matter of what group I’ve listed them in (that would happen, of course, if I correctly and completely tagged my contacts in the Yahoo Messenger list)

Anyway, I do not know how things were possible before, when there was no IMessagging … my entire professional life was accompanied by YM … so I still remember how I was 1 meter away from my colleague, yet, instead of turning to him to tell him something, I would just write on messenger … life is beautiful