Way Cool

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This is our list of cool things so far. We will sample as many cool things as we can figure out.

way cool things list

 * foldit - protein folding as a game. terrific imagination and execution from the University of Washington and other corporate sponsors. get your nose into proteins. fold your brains out.
 * hubble deep field - cosmology is beautiful and evident. Looks to us the sky was more crowded then, when the universe was only slightly congealed. It has spread since. We fly off. The skies will be dark one day.
 * python - an elegant and accessible programming language an interesting combination with dream.in.code.
 * netlogo - a herd of turtles begs the question : can turtles speak pig latin? are pigs a class of turtles? this gobbledy-gook can actually be assigned a determinate sense. yes. netLogo for hadoop.
 * wall street journal - speaks for itself


 * john batchelor - keeping a very careful eye on things - broad and deep - needs a better website


 * amazon books and music and movies and stuff - comprehensive and easy - love this place


 * edgar at sec.gov - what businesses really do - their sec reporting - liars here go to jail
 * cia.gov - these guys better be the best source on global facts and stats
 * the world after dark - nighttime satellite database
 * the fed- the magic of money, credit and the economy


 * iTunesU - free podcast courseware from major universities around the world - a growing portfolio of staggering value
 * mmo's- games are simulators and models of complex orgainzations and their behavior - the bleeding edge of computer technology - they are virtual worlds filled with real and imaginary people - they have physics and economics and management - they calculate recursive possible worlds.
 * weapons and units tweaking - WUT - an odd coincidence
 * project gutenberg - free library of the classics
 * the other stuff - as yet undecided but worth notice - under investigation

meta-cool
Views on what it is to be way cool

way cool is a function of time and place

 * d (way cool) / dt - the time rate of change of way cool


 * some stuff changes very fast/ some lasts


 * new york way cool is different in detail and custom from laramie way cool

it is local, even individual.

 * we set our own standards and they are real


 * standards overlap so sometimes we agree

it is diversity. we almost couldn't say that. we gagged.

 * but seriously ...


 * that there are staggeringly many contradictory ways to be way cool is itself way cool


 * we migrate to new cool as way cool evolves
 * ("focus on the customers").


 * some fast


 * some too fast


 * some slow


 * some happy where they are


 * some totally disinterested
 * its not a linear spectrum
 * not a continuum
 * instead think of many many small often discrete dimensions
 * lots of 5 state parameters