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The Global Oneness Project

10 November, 2007 by sky 1 Comment

Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee of
the Global Oneness Project
(on the road in the Australian outback)

Here’s a two-for-one post. Not only have I run across a great project and cause, but it’s a media project!

The Global Oneness Project has chosen the approach of professionally recording video interviews with individuals who are contributing to our awakening. I recorded an interview with Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, who directs the project. [12min:37sec QuickTime]


Click the arrow to hear the interview:

From GlobalOneness.org… “The idea of oneness is not new. For thousands of years it’s been a basic part of human consciousness, taking countless forms in the world’s spiritual, religious, artistic, and cultural traditions. Indigenous lifeways, myths showing the interconnectedness of all things, intricate philosophical systems, literature, and art are just a few of the ways we’ve sought to understand and express oneness. For the most part, however, these different expressions have been isolated from one another by geography, language, and time, or restricted to an intellectual or spiritual elite.

“In contrast, today we experience global interdependence with a unique level of clarity and urgency. In natural sciences like biology, physics, and mathematics; in technology, economics, and ecology; and in spiritual, cultural, and social movements across the planet new perspectives on oneness are emerging with breathtaking beauty and transformational power.”

Here are links to a few videos that address spirituality, community, and service:

Words From the (17th) Karmapa
Waking Up (Tenzin Palmo)
The Heart of Religion (Alberto Luna)
Seva Cafe: Love All, Serve All (Anjali Desai)
Living Service (Jayesh Patel)
Barrio de Paz (Nelsa Libertad Curbelo)
The Land Owns Us (Bob Randall)
An Invitation (Don Alverto Taxo)

Don’t forget to test on Windows (duh)

31 October, 2007 by sky Leave a Comment

Microsoft Windows It’s finally coming around to bite us. For so long I’ve had friends who would help test (maybe I should say “beat up”) my web sites before I’d launch them. And I needed help on Windows, using MS Internet Explorer and other Windows browsers, because I spend 98% of my time on a Macintosh. And recently I’ve noticed that so many of my friends are using Macintosh that actually I sometimes launch a site modification without adequate testing on Windows.

In fact, at a meeting the other day, someone said in all honesty “Is anyone here running Windows? I need to check something.” – there were 40 or so people in the room, and only a couple of them were running Windows.

Time to get Parallels, I guess, and an Intel Mac so I can have Windows running all the time “beside” Mac OSX to do adequate testing. Times are changing.

China’s Golden Shield (The Great Firewall of China) – How long can it stand?

27 October, 2007 by sky 1 Comment

Here’s another, very recent, report on how well China’s Golden Shield (otherwise known as the Great Firewall of China) is or isn’t working. By Oliver August, in WIRED. I was encouraged to read here (and other places as well) news that blogging continues to increase in China and although there’s plenty of repression of bloggers, there are just more and more of them every day.

For example, one tale from this article… “As Chinese citizens become aware that their most potent advantage over censorship is their sheer numbers, more and more grievances are aired online — sometimes with significant consequences. The first cyber-rebellion to have a major political impact took place in 2003. Sun Zhigang, a young migrant worker in Guangzhou, died in police detention after failing to produce identity documents during a street check. Sun’s friends protested his death on discussion boards, and soon other sites picked up a campaign demanding police accountability and reform of the laws affecting migrant workers. Before the unprepared system monitors could react, an avalanche was in motion. …”

“Of course, China is hardly a Jeffersonian paradise. Thousands languish in prison because of harmless online activities. A recent example is Zhang Jianhong — blogging as Li Hong — who was sentenced to six years for posting political essays. Cases like his justify strong criticism of China. But they don’t prove that its monitoring system is successful on a national scale. …”

How to circumvent Internet content filtering

28 September, 2007 by sky Leave a Comment

Reporters Without Borders

Triggered by an article on Boing Boing this morning British Air Blocks Boing Boing which reports that British Airways blocks offensive web sites on wi-fi at their Heathrow Terminal, I found a good discussion of technical means of avoiding such blocking at the Reporters Without Borders web site, entitled Technical ways to get around Censorship.