Finally, a reason to Twitter: A student at the University of California at Berkeley was arrested in Egypt for photographing a demonstration. His Twitter message, “Arrested”, sparked a series of events that led to his being released from jail. More…
A new social network on Internet2: Muse was developed by student Web programmers at the University of Washington for Internet2, an advanced computing consortium of colleges and businesses. Visit Muse.
Linked to in a uWedD thread: “…the web is a conversation. Marketing, by contrast, is a monologue.” Well said, Zeldman. The article this was taken from is a interesting look at why web is not a department of its own, but housed in IT or Marketing. Read…
Friend of mine IMs me. I say, “What’s up?” He says, “I’m stumbling.” “Huh?” I say.
Turns out stumbling is what you do when you use the StumbleUpon toolbar and click on Stumble! This takes you to a webpage that other stumblers with likes similar to your own (you choose these when you sign up) have rated “I Like It!”. You can rate sites, too–even leave comments about them to share with your ‘fans’. Fans are people who have clicked “add as friend” on your StumbleUpon profile. Drop by, download the toolbar and sign up. Perfect for times when your online and totally bored with your usual haunts.
Oh, and add me as a friend. I’m pdfob. ‘Kay, thanks.
Now to get to the real reason for this post! While stumbling tonight I found the Rules for The School of Life. Closes thing to an owner’s manual for life that I’ve found yet. The Rules, in their entireity, are below.
Rules for the School of Life
1. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called Life. Each day you will have the opportunity to learn lessons. You may like the lessons or think your assignments are stupid and irrelevant but each one has a purpose that is special for you.
2. An assignment will be repeated until you have learned that lesson. Do you find yourself experiencing the same (unpleasant) event again and again? One of your current learning projects is to discover whatever you need to do so it either stops happening or no longer affects you .
3. New assignments and projects may appear before you are ready, but you will only learn from them when you are ready - If you are not, you will do whatever you need to do to avoid learning - That may be how it has to be for the present. Don’t worry, when you are truly ready they will be presented again.
4. Your assignments will be presented to you in various forms - There are no coincidences. Whatever is going on around you is happening today because it’s part of your lesson for today.
5. Any task that presents you with a difficult question will offer teachers to help you. The best teachers guide you towards a number of choices rather than one ‘right’ answer. They will help you decide for yourself which answers will work best for you in the long run.
6. There are no mistakes, only lessons. - Growing is a process of experimenting, of trial and error. You can discover as much from a ‘failed’ experiment as you can from the experiment that ultimately ‘works’.
7. Learning lessons does not end. - There is no part of life that does not contain its lessons. Once you have learned one lesson you move on to the next one. If you are still alive, there are still new lessons to be learned.
8. Learning and growing means moving from “here” to “there”. - But once your last “there” has become your new “here”, you will be given another “there” that will again be better than “here”.
9. Others are mirrors of you. - If you love, desire, hate or reject something about another person it reflects something you love, desire, hate or reject about yourself. Learning to see this clearly is one of the greatest lessons of all.
10. The answers to Life’s problems are already inside you. All you need to do is look, listen and trust. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. What you make of your life is up to you and how you do it is your choice.
11. You will forget all this, until you realise that learning these rules is also one of your lessons.
Watch Jon Stewart rip the Alaskan senator, who is chairman of the Senate commerce committee, on his ridiculous inability to explain the way the internet works. Classic.
Also, have a listen to DJ Ted’s Techno Tubes Mix. Senator Stevens, your 15 minutes begins now.
UPDATE: A Series of Tubes: The Trailer. [link] Will the fun never stop?
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