Saw "Hereafter", oof.

I got exactly ZERO from this movie.  There is nothing.  Therefore nothing to refute.

She mumbles something, at one thin part of the film, about "scientific evidence" of whatever.

I was coerced to go and I could feel my life energy being sucked out of me throughout this inanity.

Produced and Directed by Clint Eastwood

Executive Producer Steven Spielberg

1. Matt Damon is a "real" psychic, somehow bio-engineered as a youth to communicate with the dead.

2. Someone undergoes a near death experience, and now is an expert.

3. A kid, whose twin died, is motivated to speak with his brother.

"See their lives intertwine"  or whatever, I mean c'mon, that's all you can give us? 

Being a monist, I have the afterlife answer:  When you breath out your last breath you die.  

See ya', Sayanara, b'bye, ciao, hasta, etc.  "That's all folks!"

Actually, no reason for it to be otherwise (literally!).

FRISH

Thought this was from the Onion when I first read the headline...

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101021152401.htm

Plants Play Larger Role Than Thought in Cleaning Up Air Pollution, Research Shows

Yes, well, that didn't seem revolutionary.

However, the short article is a terse and digestible explanation of a lot of plant biology.

The complexities of the world are continuously affected by the law of unintended consequences.

Here's my takeaway:

1. We pollute and thereby put trees under stress.

2. They are now taking up the pollutants since they do that as a reaction to stress.

3. The reason geo-engineering cannot work is because we don't know squadoosh about how things are supposed to work, therefore, how can we know what to do to keep the environment safe for the biosphere?
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Frish

Coke: The "working end" of globalization...

Oh, how environmentally and nutritionally benign is Coca Cola.

http://www.livepositively.com/en_us/pdf/livepositiveqaguide.pdf

What is known in the public relations business as a Puff Piece.  Love the FAQ format.

Consider this little factoid: 

almost 1.5 billion servings of the Company's products are being consumed every day, WORLDWIDE.

I'm sure nothing good can come of more people in more places being able to afford more carbonated sugar water in a package that breeds mosquitoes when casually discarded.

Let's Live (Positively?) Long and Die Out.  

This next little snippet is from a related site...they are using social networking (perhaps Coke's facebook friends...) to assist in lobbying efforts.

CAN - Community Action Network (YOU CANNOT MAKE THIS STUFF UP!)

"Whenever an issue comes up that would change our day to day lives, CAN goes to work getting important information to its members. 

For example, did you know that right now your favorite Coca-Cola beverages could cost more because of new, special taxes that are under consideration?"

I'm calling my representative, immediately.
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Frish

20 stone plates broken in honor of the G20 meeting in Seoul

CLF - In a small room on the roof, cent Mex, 5:00 AM

(CLF is CraigsListForum, in this case Haiku Hotel...I sent it to myself to document how sending a haiku from CL looks today, 10.10.2010)

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Date: Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 10:55 PM
Subject: CLF - In a small room on the roof, cent Mex, 5:00 AM

a craigslist forums reader named 'frish' has sent you this.

note from frish: wonder what this looks like...
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posted by frish (10/10):

In a small room on the roof, cent Mex, 5:00 AM:

To keep chastity
When visiting girlfriend
Nineteen Seven Five

Her Dad and I slept
In the room above kitchen
Next to bird cages...

Father-in-Law SNORES
Were answered, by the turkey's
insane gobbling

Practically watched as
Paint peeled.....then BELLS PEALED...
Cathedral at 5

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To those who might care about how women influence group intelligence

Collective Intelligence: Number of Women in Group Linked to Effectiveness in 

Solving Difficult Problems

ScienceDaily (Oct. 2, 2010) — When it comes to intelligence, the whole can indeed be greater than the sum of its parts. A new study co-authored by MIT, Carnegie Mellon University, and Union College researchers documents the existence of collective intelligence among groups of people who cooperate well, showing that such intelligence extends beyond the cognitive abilities of the groups' individual members, and that the tendency to cooperate effectively is linked to the number of women in a group.

(see article at http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100930143339.htm for more)

Frish

A UN Mission regarding The Future Of Cities...

UN Habitat's mission:

"... to promote socially and environmentally sustainable human settlements development and the achievement of adequate shelter for all."

http://www.unhabitat.org/pmss/listItemDetails.aspx?publicationID=2998

Didn't check out the whole site, or other pubs, or even this one, although I did down load it.

I find it somewhat interesting that long term planning or interest in urban life exists at a global level.

Cities are the "eternal" measure of human organization even if they started out as quite a messy business.

Those who lived in early cities were beset by diseases unknown amongst the hunter gatherers/horticulturalists who proceeded them.

However, calendars, accounting, writing, division of labor, concentration of labor and markets in cities supported by agriculture was a far more stable way of life.

And, ultimately unsustainable.  Because it provides for unlimited human population growth.  Ooops.

I think the mission statement is difficult to achieve regardless of what adequate means.

The demands of the world's biggest cities will be incredible over the next decades.

Frish