Museum of Modern Betas is too good not to plug!
What is it? A site full of the latest offerings online that are in beta (ie pre-release, release) testing mode phase…
So you can get in there and play with the latest!

"I only believe what I do not see" - Gustave Moreau

Apparently his house was left to the State of France and exists at it did until he lived there, in 1898 as a museum:
www.musee-moreau.fr. Am looking forward to an opportunity to go visit it!! In the meantime will simply sit back and enjoy his work(s) on symbolism and [...]

A Cherokee elder sitting with his grandchildren told them,
“A fight is going on inside me. It is a terrible fight between two wolves. 
One is evil: he is fear, anger, envy, greed, arrogance, self-pity, resentment, and deceit.
The other is good: joy, serenity, humility, confidence, generosity, truth, gentleness, compassion and deep vision.”
A child asked, “Grandfather, [...]

The Rant
One of the struggles living in NY, particularly for expats from countries that pride themselves on good coffee, is that for a city that is meant to have everything, great coffee seems strangely lacking.
I like to understand things so here are some plausible explanations:  *&^tty coffee, and coffee that has sat out all day on its burner, abounds, and from what [...]

"Life doesn’t go in straight lines darling…it has its up and downs and you wouldn’t want it any other way…you wouldn’t achieve or learn anything, and it would be boring" - Ruth Shell (my fabulous, quietly strong, octogenarian Grandmother)

My grandmother said this to me the other day in response to my saying that I needed to [...]

Image #1 "Light of Lotus" (c)  Bjarne Eskelund (source)
Image #2: "Bees in Lotus Blossom (c) Joy Kelley (source)

Evidently all my talking about the importance of conversation and story has become a sticky message for those around me - I received this article "Are We Having a Conversation Yet? An Art Form Evolves in today’s NYTimes. (You may need a password for this link after today but I have posted the whole article in the comment section [...]

If E-mail had been around before the telephone was invented people would have said "hey, forget e-mail - with this new telephone invention I can actually talk to people” - Anon  
I am mid-article writing with two fabulous women, Marge and Brenda, on the benefits of telephone as a medium for global conversations and learning. [...]

“The aim of life is to live,
and to live means to be aware
joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware."
– Henry Miller

Such a yummy site: full of cool maps, visually representing a number of complex things, simply.
For example:

This example is "Walrus - an interactive visualization tool that allows the analyst to view massive graphs from any position. The graph is projected inside a 3D sphere using a special kind of space based hyperbolic geometry. This is a non-Euclidean space…"
See, much [...]