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Updated 3/6 Journey to Wild Divine is a biofeedback program disguised as a computer game. In the game you use your autonomic responses/breathing/emotion to perform tasks such as levitating a ball, spinning a lotus-like mandala, and other tasks that I haven’t reached yet. It’s something like a graphical version of the old adventure games, but with a New Age appeal. I hear that you get to play chess against the Grim Reaper on Level 7 . The biofeedback unit plugs into the USB port, and consists of a “light stone” control unit with three finger sensors that measure heart rate and skin resistance. The optional graphing expansion pack lets you view your EKG. Quite fascinating, really. I had a world of trouble installing the software because of a bad install CD. It took me several tries and some trickery. However, the good folks at Wild Divine sent me out a replacement CD right away. Deleted technical description of installing from a warped CD. Once I got things w...

This is Despair.com ‘s response to my warning about Cingular’s attempt to trademark emoticons in direct violation of Despair’s trademark on the frownie . I am not licensed to reprint the frownie here. From: Despair Customer Disservice Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 17:59:18 -0600 Hello Leslie, Thank you for sharing this information with us. Our legal department will now issue an official looking, strongly worded plea to stop stealing our ideas and using them in a such an uninteresting fashion. We appreciate your vigilance in this matter and wish you luck in your future crime-fighting endeavors. Thanks, Laura S. Despair, Inc. Despair Input wrote: > Name: Leslie Ellis > Inquiry: Public Relations > Contact via: email > > Comments: > > Cingular is trying to patent emoticons. The Patent # is 20060015812. > > This may violate your trademark \”Frownie.\” Is Dr. Kersten aware of this? > >

In a previous article I was babbling about subscribing to RSS feeds in order to reduce information overload. But let’s look at it from the other side now. Webmasters use RSS feeds to keep customers up-to-date. Customers use a feed reader to grab the raw XML from their favorite sites, and the feed reader formats it so that it is easy to skim. How does that work? Do I have to remember to update the RSS feed everytime I update my site? Well, yes! That’s the point! However, it doesn’t have to be that difficult. Nobody has to hand-code web sites any more, though some of us still do. As a hobby. Yes, I know, geekess . Read on… So now you’ve decided you want to be on that web thing too. There are lots of ways to share your information on the web. I’m going to talk about four of them: blogs, content-management systems (CMS), bulletin boards (BBS, “board,'” or forum), and wikis. A blog is a web-log, a sort of a diary or journal. The...

Belief-O-Matic — A personality quiz about your religious and spiritual beliefs Your Results: The top score on the list below represents the faith that Belief-O-Matic, in its less than infinite wisdom, thinks most closely matches your beliefs. However, even a score of 100% does not mean that your views are all shared by this faith, or vice versa. Belief-O-Matic then lists another 26 faiths in order of how much they have in common with your professed beliefs. The higher a faith appears on this list, the more closely it aligns with your thinking. How did the Belief-O-Matic do? Discuss your results on our message boards. 1. Neo-Pagan (100%) 2. Taoism (98%) 3. Unitarian Universalism (92%) 4. New Age (92%) 5. Mahayana Buddhism (89%) 6. Liberal Quakers (85%) 7. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (81%) 8. Scientology (78%) 9. New Thought (75%) 10. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (70%) 11. Hinduism (69%) 12. Theravada Buddhism (65%) 13. Sikhism (64%) 14....

“Why of course the people don’t want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, the common people don’t want war: neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship … Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.” — Hermann Goering