This is what I want to do for a living- create and publish stories about sustainable culture. Here’s a great example.
Geoff Lawton greens a desert in Jordan
Notice that it’s mostly unscripted voiceover with static pictures, simple transitions and occasional, simple animation.
[updated- 2/4/08]
The link above seems to be slow or gone, so here’s the link to the YouTube version of Greening the Desert.
Emergence looks pretty promising, despite the hokey comparison image of a cross-section of the brain and a 17th century map of Hamburg. In the first two pages Evelyn Fox Keller is introduced. I met Ms. Keller briefly at Williams 20 years ago, where she was presenting on new work in biology that was pushing the boundaries of the concept of natural selection, saying that some species seemed to evolve without natural selection. I’ve probably way over-simplified this, but that’s what I remember.
Then it mentions that she was inspired in 1968 by Turing’s 1952 paper on morphogenesis, and in particular his work on Fibonacci series numbers as expressed in natural growth patterns in daisies. So I guess I have to go back and finish Hodges biography.
No, not the Safari browser.
A safari to figure out how to edit the theme. Already you can see that I’ve changed the color of the Annoying Million Pixel Deep Gradient Header Thingy and that my copy is black, not gray.
Did that on my lunch break so it seems pretty straightforward. However, if I try to make the AMPDGHT only 72px, it slides up, and the text of my name (also annoying) stays where it is. The style.css file in the theme has about 2000 lines and a lot of duplication, commenting, etc. Guess I’ll have to become a CSS guru on top of all my other jobs.
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Got Emergence by Steven Johnson out of the library, along with an O’Reily book on PHP. So’s I can edit the theme. It’s all circular, see?
I’m pretty fed up with work so I’m looking for new. My dream job is still creating knowledge systems using rich media, especially around sustainability, systems and permaculture. Y suggested that I stay here and work toward that, start moving to something more heart-centered for me. If you want to know about my current job, see some of the movies on the list below.
Today’s question: will the electric power grid go down with the heatwave hitting the East Coast? Yesterday, when I got home it was 89° F inside my house.
So what do you need to know to cope in this new world? Well, here’s a proposed movie list:
… and books