As I am trying to integrate myself into the history of this country and this culture, I am still deeply concerned of the thread of history on the other side of the planet, the people in it, the struggles and fights generation after generation, and all the great fun playing in that culture. As I [...]
Archive for January, 2007
You cannot choose history. You just participate in it.
Posted in Culture, general on January 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Sudbury Valley School, “School For a Post-Industrial Society” by Dan Greenberg
Posted in unschooling on January 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The link is here:
http://www.spinninglobe.net/carnegiesvs.htm
I agree with him totally on his analysis of our era of post-industry and what it demands of individual. Unlike many liberal or progressive folks who just blindly critisize mass production, we think it is historically an improment for mankind (see my blog http://freestone.wordpress.com/2004/05/18/why-itsoftware-makes-our-world-more-human/).
Our era is transiting from mass production to enpowering [...]
Chinese new year=thanksgiving+Christmas+new year+maybe national day(for the firework)
Posted in fun on January 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In love with this world
Posted in general on January 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A yawn after a nap, can be so free, feeling like home, a home I had never been to.
Combatants for peace
Posted in Culture, Essay on January 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I went to listen to speech given by Combatants for Peace (http://www.combatantsforpeace.org/).
I knew what they were going to say and I was highly supportive of this kind of activity. But I thought probably there were nothing new I could learn from since my own country went through 150 years’ [...]
Two movies about growing up
Posted in Culture, Essay on January 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Watched two movies with friends, Rocky Balboa and Night at the Museum. Probably both movies are not artistically deep or sophisticated. Maybe both are simple (Night at the Museum kind of has a nice plot.) But both are touching enough, at least for me.
To me, these two movies are [...]
Subway Superman
Posted in Chan/Zen, Culture on January 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Man Is Rescued by Stranger on Subway Tracks – New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/03/nyregion/03life.html?_r=1&ex=157680000&en=07bb34bc4fee56ae&ei=5124&partner=digg&exprod=digg&oref=slogin)
I am totally amazed. See something can be done and do it! No thinking.
He probably knows he has a chance to make it. He probably also know that he might die together. For us normal folks, we will hesitate and think whether we [...]
Web Brain
Posted in Cooperation, Elearning, Essay, Featured Essays, Projects on January 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Here I want to talk a little bit about Web Brain, which will lead the next generation of WWW.
Internet and WWW is all about global participation and cooperation. It provides a mechanism for people around the world to participate, and then CS works behind the scene to leverage the participation into global cooperation. In web1.0, [...]
