Oysters

"self -organised processes are generated
by incessantly perturbing a system
away from its equilibrium"

that's why oysters
always have a wry smile
on their faces

Smart love

hoe wiet djy dis true love?
d/it smart/s

Learning #3

Conundrum

"Mummy, how come we have nightmares?
I thought our brains
were meant to be on our side?"

[a gift from a child, of course]

Jonah and the Whale #2

a strange rumbling emanated
from the rose garden at No. 10 yesterday
- the satisfied burp
of the conservative party machine
as it swallowed up the liberal democrats.

Hyper-space universities

Blogging and twittering in hypertext
Links live sites of thinking
A new ontology of argument space
What a refreshing change from ‘references’
A new hyper-space for intellectual engagement
ThirdLife syn-logisms?

The Second European Holocaust Memorial

There is an appeal for donations
for the second European Holocaust Memorial.

It is an attempt to learn a little
from the first Holocaust,
where Europe ate itself up
in the gas chambers
the firebombings
and in the mighty tank and naval battles
of the second world slaughter.

Europe is about to eat itself up again
in the self inflicted plagues of flooding and desertification
that will result from global warming.

Donations will go to recording stories and pictures
of Europe as it is at the start of the 21st Century
before it is lost in the sands
for future generations.

These pre-emptive archives will be housed
in a secure twin-Holocaust Memorial and Study centre
just inside the Arctic Circle
linking the documents from the Spielberg project
on the first 20th Century holocaust
with these documents from its 21st Century twin.

Daniel Libeskind, the architect of the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin
will be asked to chair a commissioning panel for the Centre.

It is probably too late
to turn around the ravages
of the global climate disaster
but at least we might be able to secure
a record of what Europe was like
for those who follow us
who might otherwise be incredulous
as to how we could allow two Holocausts
to happen in Europe within less than 100 years.

Steerage Anyone?

Caught at the end of an email ...

"I am now somewhere over the Sahara
heading back to Joburg for three days
and doing my bit to add to global warming
and hasten the demise of the planet.

But then as John likes to say:
'If you are sailing on the Titanic
there is no point in travelling steerage'".