The Future of Ideas by Lawerence Lessig {link to the book}

about The Future of Ideas
"In The Future of Ideas, Lawrence Lessig explains how the Internet revolution has produced a counterrevolution of devastating power and effect. The explosion of innovation we have seen in the environment of the Internet was not conjured from some new, previously unimagined technological magic; instead, it came from an ideal as old as the nation. Creativity flourished there because the Internet protected an innovation commons. The Internet’s very design built a neutral platform upon which the widest range of creators could experiment. The legal architecture surrounding it protected this free space so that culture and information–the ideas of our era–could flow freely and inspire an unprecedented breadth of expression. But this structural design is changing–both legally and technically."

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Alan Dargin, Master of the Didge, 1967-2008 {obit link}

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Broken board

This past Monday, the waves were a foot or two overhead. I paddled out on my big old 9 plus log immediately noticing the current. The waves aggressively greeted me by smashing into my head and with surprising force. Soon after making it to the outside, I caught a nice big one that soon petered out. I caught another big one that walled up and sectioned in about 5 seconds. Little did I know that those would be my last waves on the log. Finding myself on the inside of a big set all I could do was dive under the wave and let my board fend for itself. No one was near. I pop up tug on the leash and my board comes back to me. Oops, another big friggin' wave and I repeat the previous drill. When Breeching the surface, the first thing I dee is the half of the board still attached to my leg - via leash. I watch as a wave's white frothy foam catches the front of my board, propelling in the direction of the shore. So all I can do is paddle the broken half with a big piece of lamination hanging off the edge like a small whale's tongue. I guess it's time to start using the fish again.

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horse

horse
Originally uploaded by surfer x

photo by didj

Lobster Boy

Lobster Boy
Originally uploaded by surfer x

photo by didj

No, you can't

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Graffiti art in Ojai

Graffiti art in Ojai
Originally uploaded by surfer x This photo was taken by me today. Any locals know where?
artist unknown photo by didj

How to save the world {link to article}

The list, announced this afternoon, addresses four themes the committee considered "essential for humanity to flourish" - environmental sustainability, health, reducing our vulnerability and adding to the joy of living.

"We chose engineering challenges that we feel can, through creativity and committment, be realistically met, most of them early in this century," said committee chair William J. Perry, the former Secretary of Defense who teaches engineering at Stanford University. "Some can be, and should be, achieved as soon as possible."

-Make solar energy affordable.
-Provide energy from fusion.
-Develop carbon sequestration methods.
-Manage the nitrogen cycle.
-Provide access to clean water.
-Restore and improve urban infrastructure.
-Advance health informatics.
-Engineer better medicines.
-Reverse-engineer the brain.
-Prevent nuclear terror.
-Secure cyberspace.
-Enhance virtual reality.
-Advance personalized learning.
-Engineer the tools for scientific discovery.

courtesy of wired

Dear reader, No where on this list do we see any urgency to create more weapons or make more war. Vote accordingly.

Love,
(-:-)DiDj(-:-)

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Free hugs

courtesy of PeaceOnEarth123

Well over 23 million hits on this vid!

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Animator vs Animation by Alan Becker {link}

This is a must see, only 2 minutes long. c'mon, click the title (:n)

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McCain

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David Blaine parody

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Plastic soup

"A 'plastic soup' of waste floating in the Pacific Ocean is growing at an alarming rate and now covers an area twice the size of the continental United States, scientists have said."
--By Kathy Marks, Asia-Pacific Correspondent, and Daniel Howden
link to article

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Caveman

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Better than free {link}

"The internet is a copy machine. At its most foundational level, it copies every action, every character, every thought we make while we ride upon it. In order to send a message from one corner of the internet to another, the protocols of communication demand that the whole message be copied along the way several times. IT companies make a lot of money selling equipment that facilitates this ceaseless copying. Every bit of data ever produced on any computer is copied somewhere. The digital economy is thus run on a river of copies. Unlike the mass-produced reproductions of the machine age, these copies are not just cheap, they are free."
--Kevin Kelly

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