• Linking Park: 2006-W43

    edited by Alexander Becker on October 28, 2006 | Link

    Let's jump directly and immediately into the linking spree -- Do NOT start at the beginning! is the advice for creating better beginnings: how to start a presentation, book, article...

    Need some ideas? Try negative brainstorming using fifty phrases that kill creativity with the classic, it's impossible, to give you an excellent start... On the other hand, once you have found your creative Zen, you don't need to worry anymore.

    Creativity is abundantly present and required for the art of complex problem solving. The delicate irony about complex problem solving is the degree of complexity of the graphic provided.

    Wired has some intriguing very short stories, concise as in six words. Cory Doctorow, for example, tells how Batman sues Batsignal: Demands trademark royalties.

    Trademark royalties? I am dealing with human people, most of the time at least, and their various and often complex issues, addressed directly or indirectly in more or less abstract ways in the WOW parables. From your problems to your desires and your challenges, of course. Now, corporations do develop a life of their own with all the pathologic traits that are not uncommon in humans. Consider this --

    ... let's face it, we do have a brand to protect, so we'd like to make clear that you should please only use "Google" when you're actually referring to Google Inc. ...

    Do you "Google?" they ask... Let me put it like this: Whenever I employ the You-form, I am referring to humans, known characters, actual people, and made-up examples. From now on, You includes corporations with human symptoms as well. Here goes: Google, please, let go.

    Back to diet and nutrition. This week marks the conclusion of the feature on Ramadan, evaluating one month of daytime fasting. Another interesting approach is looking at the Israelite Diet. Just ask yourself, what would the Israelites eat? While the article is only semi-serious, the dieting concepts and prescriptions from the bible are rather sensible and should be studied in order to develop the optimal diet.

    There's a reason why the Israelites were able to make it through 100 years of slavery, 40 years in the desert... Their laws regarding food were strict.

    The best diet-related quote and a rationale for the transition happens to be from the book of the week, the hunter-gatherer manual Neanderthin, by Ray Audette --

    Predators consistently have proportionally larger brains than herbivores of the same size because the activity of hunting requires more cognitive functions than simply eating the next leaf.

    Speaking of quotes, here is the bare truth: Beam me up Scotty -- and misquote me for better effect --

    Some of history's most famous one-liners are about to be exposed as inventions by other writers with plenty of time to hone their prose.

    Since this edition didn't start with any introduction, there will be no happy ending either.

    To your excellent life.

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