I’ve missed a lot of things of late, for various reasons, but perhaps the event I most regret missing was Letting Go of That Which You Most Ardently Desire.
It was devised by Mannix Flynn and his Far Cry Productions company, and one of the reasons I missed it was that I didn’t quite appreciate the [...]

With apologies for late posting, but I’m posting it now for the record.

Memory – Art – Power is an International Symposium which examines the importance of archiving for cultural validation and development.
Thursday 19 October 2006
Memory – Art – Power brings together five leading cultural practitioners who are involved in the field of archiving [...]

In a clever hat-tip to the Dewey Decimal Classification System used in Libraries, Ms Dewey is search as you’ve never seen it. It takes quite a while to load, so if you’ve a slow connection forget it. But no doubt its use of an avatar like Ms Dewey will be sufficiently amusing to [...]

The concept
“jamendo is a new model for artists to promote, publish, and be paid for their music.
On jamendo, the artists distribute their music under Creative Commons licenses. In a nutshell, they allow you to download, remix and share their music freely. It’s a “Some rights reserved” agreement, perfectly suited for the new century.
These new [...]

Humanity slides into the red today and begins racking up an ecological overdraft driven by unsustainable exploitation of the world’s resources, according to a report by the sustainable development organisation Global Footprint Network.
In little more than nine months, humans have used up all that nature can replenish in one year, and for the rest of [...]

If you’re feeling depressed (eg about the cynicism of politicians), watch these short videos.
Free Hugs Campaign
and then
Inspiring Story - Free Hugs Campaign, Sydney
As it happens, the BBC has a story about the demise of the larrikin in Australian culture.

Briefly following up on the last post, A Brain Cell is the Same as the Universe:
The New Size of Our World
This is a graphic representation of how small our beautiful earth really is.
I wrote this in the title poem of my last book, Dialogue in Fading Light:
Our sun is many times [...]

That a brain cell structure might reflect the structure of the Universe isn’t at all surprising, stunning though the comparison is, when you think that a daisy, a snail shell, a ram’s horn and a spiral nebula all conform to the Fibonacci Series.
You can see the pictures here -
A Brain Cell is the Same [...]