http://www.thiemeworks.com/blog/ Copyright 2008 Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:09:54 +0000 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.11 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Lovely, and congruent with perhaps the most mis-quoted verse of all the New Testament, viz., 1st Timothy 6:10 For the love of money is the root of all evil which makes the critical distinction that it is not money, but... http://www.thiemeworks.com/blog/archives/2008/10/now_we_find_out.html http://www.thiemeworks.com/blog/archives/2008/10/now_we_find_out.html Comments to Primary Posts Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:09:54 +0000 One thought that stuck me this week was how ironic it is that greed has accomplished what the 9/11 attacks could not--and the 9/11 attacks were a response to western greed. And like the 9/11 attack, it is the innocent... http://www.thiemeworks.com/blog/archives/2008/10/consequences_of.html http://www.thiemeworks.com/blog/archives/2008/10/consequences_of.html Comments to Primary Posts Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:08:11 +0000 Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers. Come, let us pity the married and the... http://www.thiemeworks.com/blog/archives/2008/10/an_ezra_pound_p.html http://www.thiemeworks.com/blog/archives/2008/10/an_ezra_pound_p.html Comments to Primary Posts Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:50:15 +0000 It is raining, leaves are falling, and the sky is dark, oh, dark. A friend, despairing over the heart of corruption beating visibly through the skin inside the current financial meltdown, wrote: "And things will only get worse, not better.... http://www.thiemeworks.com/blog/archives/2008/10/autumn_thoughts.html http://www.thiemeworks.com/blog/archives/2008/10/autumn_thoughts.html Primary Entry Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:30:37 +0000 People often explain new experiences by relating them to things that they know. Religious and psychedelic experiences are similar -- they both occur outside of consensus reality. They are visionary events, ungoverned by ordinary laws of space and time, yet... http://www.thiemeworks.com/blog/archives/2008/10/response_from_l.html http://www.thiemeworks.com/blog/archives/2008/10/response_from_l.html Comments to Primary Posts Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:14:12 +0000 A young man experienced an altered state and emailed to ask about its relationship to orthodox modes of spirituality and religious experience. I thought it might be of value to others who are asking the same question to share my... http://www.thiemeworks.com/blog/archives/2008/10/the_spiritual_j.html http://www.thiemeworks.com/blog/archives/2008/10/the_spiritual_j.html Primary Entry Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:52:53 +0000 The Room is an episodic novel I am writing. The first five episodes have been published at Combat, the Literary Expression of Battlefield Touchstones, an online labor of necessity and love by a man committed to exploring the psychological impact... http://www.thiemeworks.com/blog/archives/2008/04/the_room.html http://www.thiemeworks.com/blog/archives/2008/04/the_room.html Primary Entry Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:19:12 +0000 Hexen is more than a game - it’s an exploration by London artist Suzanne Treister of military technologies for psychological warfare. In 1995 she created a fictional alter ego, Rosalind Brodsky, a delusional time traveler who believes herself to be... http://www.thiemeworks.com/blog/archives/2008/04/hexen.html http://www.thiemeworks.com/blog/archives/2008/04/hexen.html Primary Entry Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:17:13 +0000 I recently presented a keynote address for a Relativity Week conference in Philadelphia, sponsored by InterNetwork Defense, the dojo for Cyber Kung Fu. I was asked to use the concepts of relativity theory to illuminate emergent geopolitical structures. I don’t... http://www.thiemeworks.com/blog/archives/2008/04/happy_birthday.html http://www.thiemeworks.com/blog/archives/2008/04/happy_birthday.html Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:16:01 +0000 Quiet American at http://www.quietamerican.org/ is a good place to take a break. It’s a wonderful repository of sound art and found sound by Aaron Ximm, a technology entrepreneur from S P Controls, http://www.spcontrols.com/. Quiet American hosts discography, field recordings, and... http://www.thiemeworks.com/blog/archives/2008/04/quiet_american.html http://www.thiemeworks.com/blog/archives/2008/04/quiet_american.html Primary Entry Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:13:01 +0000 The response to Michelle Obama’s remark that she was proud of being an American for the first time in her adult life is the latest in a series of events that reveal the gulf fixed between the experience of the... http://www.thiemeworks.com/blog/archives/2008/03/the_difference.html http://www.thiemeworks.com/blog/archives/2008/03/the_difference.html Primary Entry Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:41:22 +0000 A well-educated, highly accomplished friend wrote: Sunday's Washington Post (February 18 2008) opinion section had two front-page articles on declining literacy in the US and on the general dumbing-down of the population. Certainly worth reading, but it also explains far... http://www.thiemeworks.com/blog/archives/2008/02/reading_writing.html http://www.thiemeworks.com/blog/archives/2008/02/reading_writing.html Primary Entry Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:06:16 +0000 As our conversations about Hillary Clinton, Obama, George W. Bush, and communication evolved. a younger friend on an email list asked these questions. Hence my response, below, not about how to communicate effectively, but how to communicate, period. What, in... http://www.thiemeworks.com/blog/archives/2008/02/real_communicat.html http://www.thiemeworks.com/blog/archives/2008/02/real_communicat.html Primary Entry Sun, 17 Feb 2008 22:42:39 +0000 Aaron Ximm" is the name of my son a.k.a. Aaron Thieme whose new and artist name evolved from the date of his wedding anniversary. He works with a fine tech company that takes most of his time (http://www.spcontrols.com/) but also... http://www.thiemeworks.com/blog/archives/2008/02/why_some_younge.html http://www.thiemeworks.com/blog/archives/2008/02/why_some_younge.html Comments to Primary Posts Sat, 16 Feb 2008 22:12:09 +0000 If you aren't sure who Hobbit is ... he's a highly respected information security researcher and practitioner, and you can google him and learn more. On a list we share, an article from The Register - MayDay! MayDay! Ruskies reinvent... http://www.thiemeworks.com/blog/archives/2008/02/_hobbit_makes_c.html http://www.thiemeworks.com/blog/archives/2008/02/_hobbit_makes_c.html Primary Entry Fri, 15 Feb 2008 21:53:43 +0000