Monthly Archives: March, 2009

Cool Visualization Tools – The Joy of Interacting with Good Design

If you have been following my blog you have noticed my fetish for visualization tools.  I guess if I had to define what a visualization tool was to me, I would say it is a is a mix between a data aggregator (something that brings in various forms of data) and way of viewing data [...]

Discussion Notes March 17th – Big Sit Dharma Talk Week 2

  This weeks discussion is about the dharma talk given by Enkyo Roshi for the second week of the Tricycle Magazine’s Big Sit challenge.  The quotes bellow are from the big sit dharma talk. Tonight’s quick and deep discussion brought to you by :  Dogen Coldstream, stevenaia Michinaga, Renwick Tomsen, Solari Georgia, Danaeah Ballinger, AuroraSkye [...]

Book: Why God Won’t Go Away

I just finished reading the book “Why God Won’t Go Away: Brain Science & the Biology of Belief.”  It was was a recommendation that was made to me by the same friend who recommended the book “My Stroke of Insight” after I mentioned that I had enjoyed that book.  Jill Bolte Taylor actually references the [...]

Cool Tool: ToonDoo – Create a cartoon on the web!

I ran into something today that reminded me of MSN chat way back-in-the-day when it was in the form of cartoons. Well, gone are those days, but this new thing that reminded me of it was something I thought real neat.  ToonDoo is a web utility that allows you to develop your own comic strips [...]

Book: Building a WordPress Blog People Want to Read

I just finished reading the book “Building a WordPress Blog” by Scott McNulty.  The book is basically how to setup, administrate, and publish on a WordPress blog (specifically version 2.6).   Building a WordPress Blog People Want to Read ISBN: 0321591933ISBN-13: 9780321591937   Although I had a blog on WordPress.com and have been using my [...]

What a neat gift – Customized M&M’s!

I was just trolling the chocolate posts and just found something that just seemed the coolest thing, a site that allows you to create a bag of customized M&M’s.  Is that cool or what?  You can even put pictures of people’s faces on them.  Here is a picture of the customization web site over at [...]

Discussion Notes March 10th – Big Sit Dharma Talk Week 1

After the amount of people who have been gathering the last couple weeks this turned out to balance out with a small group for the evening.  Because of the format change a little different focus it worked out all the better that it was four of the regulars tackling the first section of the Genjokoan.  [...]

More Guitar Playing Coolness! – Just Another Guitar Hero

A couple months ago a video I found on the Internet inspired me to ask the question: Does this guitar playing make you hot?  Now, after seeing this new video I find myself asking the same sorts of questions. more about "Andy McKee – Guitar – Drifting – www….", posted with vodpod Was that cool [...]

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