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  July 9, 2005

Thinking on the Edge

SBphotoEach of these links represents an example of unorthodox thinking, which we need a lot more of.

World Tribunal on Iraq: This is an information-packed progressive website with everything you would ever want to know about the war crimes perpetuated by Bush in the war on Iraq and the events leading up to it. Thanks to Wendy Farmer-O'Neil for the link

The Decision-Making Process: Here's a long but intriguing paper on decision-making by a British writer Barry Brown. His argument is that decision-making is a complex, not a complicated process, and that decisions should be viewed as social, rather than intellectual objects. I don't fully agree, but it's thought-provoking. Thanks to Anne Galloway for the link. As a follow-up, Anne links to this Cornell study suggesting that the way our brains work is also complex, rather than complicated, continuous rather than discrete, biological rather than logical. Perhaps the analogy of the brain as computer has outlived its usefulness.

Google Earth Now Out: I confess that after the long wait (only so many downloads have been allowed per day) I am disappointed with the extra functionality that Google Earth offers relative to the earlier Google Maps. Zooming in and flying around is fun, of course, but I would have preferred "more matter and less art".

The Cooperation Project: A new paper from Institute for the Future proposes a 'knowledge commons' a network of 'cooperation researchers' and some intriguing tools to hold it all together. I'd have pushed it a bit further, and stressed face to face interaction more and technology enablers less, but it's an interesting start. But why cooperation and not collaboration? Thanks to Sue Braiden for the link. Also from Sue, If you had one hour to brief Wolfowitz on the benefits of microfinance.

Pentagon Strike: A new video out of the UK stirs up the conspiracy theorist in all of us. First there was the question of why the twin towers collapsed from the bottom up, rather than the top down, where they were hit by the planes. Now there's the question of the missing aircraft that supposedly struck the Pentagon.

I Dream of Children: A writer that has helped me in my difficult struggle to learn to pay better attention is Sharon Brogan at Watermark. Her lovely poetry like this piece is always entirely in the moment, and her photography, like the composition reproduced above, mostly of natural things, is exquisite. Go there, be refreshed.

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