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Can Technology be Aware?

Here is an interesting article about a Random Number Generator that Sees into the Future. Well, I recommend reading this. It is not the first I have heard about this work, which is being done by reputable scientists who can not explain the results they are getting. No futher comment at this time...

Something Wicked This Way Comes...Religion as a Shared Suspension of Disbelief...

A brutal force lies just below the surface. If hard times come, will Americans be able to bear up as well as those in other lands who are more accustomed to hardship? Will we handle adversity as well as say, people in Russia, or China, or Serbia or Turkey?

Religion is important to most societies, but people do not really believe in their religion, not always; that is, people do not always behave as if they were making decisions based on their religious principles. No, most everyday decisions and actions are taken with more temporal thoughts and goals in mind, and I suspect this was as true in the ancient world as it is today.

But religious beliefs are a set of shared attitudes appropriate to those times and circumstances that people regard as holy or sacred, and most people can clearly distinguish between the normal times and the religious times in life.

People are more religious in hard times than in good. The shared suspension of disbelief in the harsh reality around them is a cohesive factor for society. Religion helps pull people through the hard times.

I'd like to think that religion also acts as at least a little bit of restraint on folks even in the good times, but that is getting harder to believe as we see little restraint around us now, anything goes.

Enter the Real...

Enter the real...

I have a feeling that we are dealing with real things now.

Possible Python Projects:

I am thinking about three python projects, to explore in my copious spare time ;-)))

1. Create a web inteface for pyChing. The pyChing program is a nice implentation of the I Ching coded in Python and Tkinter. I would like to replace the Tkinter interface with a web based interface.

2. Create a Google Box that works seemlessly with FireDrop2, to allow the user to do regular customized searches for the most recent web activity on specific topics. I will admit that Feedster does most of what I have in mind, adn I highly recommend Feedster. However, I want to integrate this fiunctionality into FireDrop created websites.

3. Creating a (Jython created) Java .class versiuonj of my latest Decision Analysis program optimized for cell phones and PDA's.