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Marcelo Vieta discusses Heidegger’s work, The Question Concerning Technology, by using an excellent analogy involving fire.  Technology, he says, is like a fire:
At a basic level, there’s an everpresent type of danger in fire because fire burns. Because of this, fire demands respect. But there’s more to the parent’s narrative. The parent also tells the child of the benefits of [...]

Continuing to use John as an example, let’s imagine that although he appreciates the small group of people who respond to his postings, he suddenly decides to take an interest in expanding his base of core readers to potentially generate more conversational flow and to add depth to of perspective to the range of possible comments.  One way to do this would be to increase the number [...]

Cute pieces of pottery set out on display in front of a store in Ohara, Kyoto Prefecture.
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Kawai Yakimono from Ohara.
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Here’s some cute pottery from Ohara.
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If you’re a blogger and aren’t taking advantage of RSS feeds, I strongly urge you to consider doing so.  Rather than surfing around from site to site to glean the latest news and information, you can selectively bring all that to you by subcribing to the RSS feeds using a piece of aggregation software.  This sounds [...]

If I ever move back to live in the States, Ohio certainly won’t be at the top of my list of potential states of residency. 
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I just added a green button in the right column of the main page called GeoURL, which shows all recent postings from bloggers within a 100 mile radius of the East Asia Center.  This is a good way to integrate your geographical community with the virtual one and in the process, find out what’s happening in the minds of fellow bloggers in [...]

Are you tired of being surrounded by 90 degree angles?  Afraid of your home being destroyed in a flood or earthquake with you in it?  Why don’t you purchase a Barrier from the G-Wood company in Japan?   (via WorldChanging)
Or maybe you’d rather live in a home made of 100% recycled materials that looks like it’s [...]

“Repressing your desires is bad for the economy.” - Dan Brown
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If the photos on this site are for real…it’s really amazing.  It’s hard for me to imagine hiking through the forest and coming across an octopus hanging out in the trees. 
(via Geisha Asobi blog)

Tom Clifton has this to say about weblogs:
A standard definition of a weblog is a series of posts in “reverse chronologic order”. I can’t give you a reference here because the standard online reference sites don’t have a definition for “weblog”
But, as a geologist, I understand “reverse chronologic order”. Reverse chronologic order is youngest [...]