mountain masala

what is the body?

i'm writing  an article for a journal about young people, technology and embodied spirituality.

I just did the MS Word thesaurus lookup on "body" (cause I've used the word too much) and it came back with...

corpse
dead body
cadaver
remains
carcass
stiff
deceased

apart from the obvious fact that these people have been watching too many monty python parrot sketches, isnt it bizarre that 'body' means 'dead'.....

thanks bill gates. and the corporate body microsoft...

i'm a happy camper tonight

 

shuffle

the new ipod shuffle is very nice...

learning with digital media

thanks to mary hess for the link to this study:

“Kids’ Informal Learning with Digital Media: An Ethnographic Investigation of Innovative Knowledge Cultures”

The book is an online version of a forthcoming book with MIT Press, "Hanging Out, Messing Around, Geeking Out: Living and Learning with New Media" and incorporates the insights from 800 youth and young adults and over 5000 hours of online observations.

what would jesus type?

well, of course, jesus didnt have a keyboard.....

but if he did, this might have been his favourite font...

http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/the_best_font_ever_9432.asp

at the doctors

my main mac has gone off to get the superdrive replaced. under warranty which is good, but i spent a day backing up stuff and then today going 'crap, where is that program/file/etc' and having to install it on our video edit machine.

so apologies to all whose emails and appointments I may not have synced yet....

and I'm about to go away for a week's leave. hopefully the mac will be back after that before i head o/s.

much more to tell you about that shortly!

cataloging your stuff

somewhere along the line i have accumulated more than one bit of software to catalog(ue) my obscene amount of books, CDs, DVDs etc etc.

I seem to have booxter, the bookpedia/cdpedia/gamepedia collection, and delicious library.

I'm not happy with any of them, and would welcome your comments about what you use and why.....

including DVD/CD data cataloging - my very old software is starting to show its age (DiskTracker)...

comments for you mac folks appreciated.