This first chord that starts A Hard Day’s Night is one of the most recognizable and famous opening chords in rock & roll. It’s played by George Harrison on his 12 string Rickenbacker.
These are my links for November 13th from 22:43 to 23:00:
Personal VSM – If one wishes to change the world, one must first change oneself. This was one of Heinz von Foerster’s profound teachings and one that has great applicability today as it seems that many aspects of our lives threaten to spiral out of control. Here in Ontario, which is one of the more tranquil areas on earth, we have had continuing security fall-out from the World Trade Center attack, the Walkerton water system’s e-coli contamination, SARS, a computer leasing scandal in city government and the electricity black-out in August. All appeared to be catastrophes or anomalies but, upon examination, all have been found to be events that we could have, and should have, been better prepared to meet. All the subsequent examinations exposed failures to see the whole picture and to respond with requisite variety when the first sign of trouble appeared.
Long Bets is about taking personal responsibility for ideas and opinions. Posting and betting under your true name is part of standing up for what you think. Anyone is welcome to cruise around the website anonymously, of course, but to participate in Long
In 2002, Dave Winer of Scripting News and Martin Nisenholtz of the New York Times made a Long Bet about the authority of weblogs versus that of NY Times in Google: In a Google search of five keywords or phrases representing the top five news stories of 20
“…an intimate look at the development of a new theory about change and learning. In wide-rangin conversations held over a year and a half, organizational learnign pioneers Peter Senge, C. Otto Sharmer, Joseph Jaworski, and Betty Sue Flowers explored the nature of transformational change — how it arises and the fresh possibilities it offers a world dangerously out of balance.”
The scope of the book is grand indeed with an aim to:
“… define the capabilities that underlie our ability to see, sense, and realize new possibilities — in ourselves, in our institutions and organizations, and in society itself.” <Doubleday 2005>
Robert P. Crease, a member of the philosophy department at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and the historian at Brookhaven National Laboratory, recently asked physicists to nominate the most beautiful experiment of all time. Based on the p
Michael Crichton’s new novel “State of Fear” is about a self-important NGO hyping the science of the global warming to further the ends of evil eco-terrorists. The inevitable conclusion of the book is that global warming is a non-problem. A lesson for our
NASA astronauts Scott Altman and Mike Massimino of the STS-125 mission visit the New York Stock Exchange to support the release of Hubble 3D, the newest IMAX film, which documents the mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope and features never-before-seen 3D flights through Hubble imagery such as the Orion Nebula. In honor of the occasion, Altman and Massimino ring 'The Closing Bell' ending the day's trading at the Exchange on Thursday, March 18, 2010. Image Credit: NYSE (Used by permission) Read More
