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Creatives will need a new business model

Interesting article in the Guardian today about the 'Deep Web' and darkweb facilitated by Ian Clarkes Freenet software see: http://freenetproject.org

Where he is basically saying to have a free society, democracy, you cannot enforce copyright, so that we need a new business model where creative get paid in a different way. Radioheads 'free' downlaod of an albumm is an example of a different way of doing things, th… Continue

Something Understood
LISTEN AGAIN for 5 days:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00nnmsl/Something_Understood_Words_My_Mother_Taught_Me/

Ethical and religious discussion that examines some of the larger questions of life, taking a spiritual theme and exploring it through music, prose and poetry

Pamela Marre, a storyteller from a non-orthodox Jewish family, looks at how ancient… Continue

Poem: "Proverbial Ballade" by Wendy Cope from Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis. © Faber & Faber.

Proverbial Ballade

Fine words won't turn the icing pink;
A wild rose has no employees;
Who boils his socks will make them shrink;
Who catches cold is sure to sneeze.
Who has two legs must wash his knees;
Who breaks the egg will find the yolk;
Who locks his door will need his keys—
So say I and so say the folk.

You can't shave with a tiddlywinks,
Nor make red wine from garden pea… Continue

"Me," "Myself," and "I"

Holding to an ordinary notion of self, or ego, is the source of all our pain and confusion. The irony is that when we look for this "self" that we're cherishing and protecting, we can't even find it.

- Dzigar Kongtrül Rinpoche, from "Searching for Self,” Tricycle, Summer 2007

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8To-U1nTLWw
http://www.yout… Continue